Posted September 06, 2015
hedwards: You may disagree, but activity is hardly the same thing as health. A lot of that activity is just that activity. People giving away free stuff and bitching about whatever it is that GOG has done wrong this time.
Darling_Jimmy: As I recall, there was always a lot of bitching. I suppose—to some extent—it could be considered constructive bitching. I dunno, aside from a change in core community members (or maybe some people just changed their handles and avatars) it doesn't look like much else has changed. Gog Galaxy has a huge number of problems with it.
They are taking in more money now than before, but they can't possibly be turning the sort of profit on it that it might seem as they seem to lack the money necessary to properly fund operations. There's still no full-time mods here. Not even any contractors.
Barry_Woodward: That's the thing, communities change. Peoples' priorities change. No matter what, a certain number of members would have moved on or drifted away, and maybe even more would have without all GOG has been able to accomplish over the years. Embrace the change.
They do, but watching GOG slide has been rather painful. Things do change over time, but GOG's seemingly suicidal behavior is rather painful to watch. People are going to come and go and that is inevitable. What's not inevitable is the way the site has become so bug infested that it's a huge pain to come here. The complete lack of oversight of the people posting and the lack of respect that Mr. Gog has for the people that have invested rather amount of unpaid time promoting them over the years. mintee: No, they are already experiencing growing pains with the recent rapid influx of customers and should concentrate on getting Galaxy fine tuned, dealing with scammers and setting out the substrate of their business plan before delving into other media and their subsequent problems they entail.
This. Until they can fix the serious problems with the website and Galaxy any further expansions should be limited to new publishers in things they're already selling. And probably until they've got a half-way decent selection of movies as well.
Post edited September 06, 2015 by hedwards