darktjm: Hiding games is sufficient, as long as they remain hidden.
Different opinions … as I stated in my posting, I don’t want to hide them. Hiding is rather an option to have bad games in an area where they don’t get my attention anymore, or similar cases. But demos? Come on. I can get them anytime, I want to test them, and after that, throw them away. If the game’s good, I might buy it. What do I need
two game entries then in my library for the same game? I can hide the demo one, but that’s ridiculous.
Your other arguments state the very worst case, and though some points are valid, they can be leveraged quite a bit, like with a grace period of a month or so. (And also, it’s demos! If the demo might get removed from your account and also from GOG, what’s the deal? At that time I will pretty surely have played the demo already.)
darktjm: The only problem I see with hidden games on gog is that they continue to get update notifications. That's something they should fix.
Don’t get me started. Otherwise I demand my personal blacklist in which I can put
every GOG game I want, so that they don’t promote, notify or even show any game I already have bought on other platforms, or am simply not interested in. This would be great for me – but not great for GOG. ;-)
Cadaver747: And I think it's a good idea. The bad idea was to count demo games as games in the first place.
Yes, either they could have been put in a separate category, or simply give the users a button “remove from my library”, because … it’s free and always free-to-have demo.
Or even better: GOG could put all the demos in a section on the site where everybody (with a login) can download it. This way there’s no hassle with demos in your libray, and the publishers will still know how many distinct people downloaded their demo. I mean, this must be the only reason why almost all demos can
only be downloaded by „buying“ the demo on GOG or Steam and not just simply on their homepage.
Cadaver747: Another option would be to remove free of charge games and demos, even less reasons to complain about it.
Why removing something if you can fix the problems? I appreciate the demos and that publishers do them again.