Posted June 09, 2015
So lately it seems more and more there seems to be a return to the old arguement of should GOG remained curated or not as GOG seems to reject many games for seemingly no sensible reason at least through the user base here on the forums anyway since we don't often get a clear explanation as to why and with some clamering for a end of curation here, which most don't want since it will lead to the typical flooding of the store with crap. I happen to fall in the latter catagory, I personally think it's silly to end over all curation because that one game or style of game you really want wasn't accepted and have to subject the rest of us to the same crap that many currently deal with on Stream, the app store, desura, ect. where it's just a market flooded with crap and people have to search for the diamonds in the rough as it were.
So what I propose is what I think is a good compromise where GOG could offer a greenlight style system for rejected titles where they can be put up to be voted on by the customer base here but unlike Greenlight where anyone with a 100 dollars can submit their game this will be only for games submitted to GOG and will also be a curated one where the games rejected for techincal reasons like being broken, being something cobbled together with store bought unity assests, being unfinished, ect. and the like will not be open to voting by the community thus preventing scumbag devs like Digital Homicide from cheesing the system like they do with Greenlight now.
So basically games GOG rejects for more subjective reasons like being too niche, not being a good fit, we don't want to sell this genre of game, being too high of a price will be the only ones up for voting. Obviously details about the game will be there price point and the like.
Yes we have the wishlist but as events have shown us those are only guidelines and don't have that much bearing on GOG's final decisions.
I think this is a decent compromise. What do the rest of you think? Also if you like here is the wishlist for it(feels weird given how I just criticized it).
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/the_ability_for_the_customer_base_to_be_able_to_vote_in_rejected_games
So what I propose is what I think is a good compromise where GOG could offer a greenlight style system for rejected titles where they can be put up to be voted on by the customer base here but unlike Greenlight where anyone with a 100 dollars can submit their game this will be only for games submitted to GOG and will also be a curated one where the games rejected for techincal reasons like being broken, being something cobbled together with store bought unity assests, being unfinished, ect. and the like will not be open to voting by the community thus preventing scumbag devs like Digital Homicide from cheesing the system like they do with Greenlight now.
So basically games GOG rejects for more subjective reasons like being too niche, not being a good fit, we don't want to sell this genre of game, being too high of a price will be the only ones up for voting. Obviously details about the game will be there price point and the like.
Yes we have the wishlist but as events have shown us those are only guidelines and don't have that much bearing on GOG's final decisions.
I think this is a decent compromise. What do the rest of you think? Also if you like here is the wishlist for it(feels weird given how I just criticized it).
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/the_ability_for_the_customer_base_to_be_able_to_vote_in_rejected_games
Post edited June 09, 2015 by DCT