Ok, I really feel like I'm out of the loop now. What did I miss?

2 FPS, 1 RTS.

"Become a Patron and determine which genre should be favored in the GOG Preservation Program!"

I'll become a patron the day I can determine which OS should be favored in the GOG Preservation Program.

Until then, it is not really preservation.

But cool that you are keeping games running in Windows. Microsoft is grateful for your contribution to their ecosystem.

Cast your runes and help GOG make another shooter playable for the masses.

I think there's been enough trouble involving runes for now...

Which just so happens to be the more or less exact time frame that all five of the genres to vote on arguably were at their peak.

I was going to say - doesn't "classic CRPGs, immersive sims, real-time strategy, classic adventure games, and old-school shooters" cover games originally released in the late 90s & early 2000s, almost exclusively?

I joined Patron to support GOG. I would recommended a new system for the Patron program not just with votes

34 people in the last 3 days saw the recent publicity for GOG and decided - hey this is a good time to join the patron program.

Most of them don't have far-right profile pictures, so that's something I suppose.

We're well aware. Makes it easier to nag the staff though.

Even though I don't support this patron thing this is what GOG should actually do.....

Yeah, if they opened up the submission to everybody, that would be even better. I'm certainly not gonna gate keep.

I'm disappointed in GOG's developing approach to the Preservation Program. I subscribed as soon as it was announced, and while there were a few occasions to vote on games to go into the preservation program, I worry the company is leading harder into using FOMO as a marketing tactic. If you're a big CRPG fan and don't like RTS games, this is a precedent-setting vote that will influence the future of the preservation program.

I would have preferred that our money go toward an all-hands-on-deck approach preserving the most acclaimed and noteworthy games in history, or otherwise games difficult to run on modern consoles, rather than specific genres. It's weird to say that as a patron, I wouldn't want to be involved in direct decision-making, but that is how I feel. Who am I to decide what the most import games to preserve are, just because I'm in a league of the the highest bidders?

I unsubscribed for the time being due to GOG's recent newsletter controversy and what was in my opinion a lack of an adequate response. Anyway, with the timing of these two events, it's hard not to feel like this post was a way to recoup for all the people who unsubscribed, rather than a decision made in the best interest of games preservation.

This is still my storefront of choice, I really appreciate the work GOG does, and I may re-subscribe in the future, but I'm starting to worry that GOG is beginning to go downhill after the acquisition, though I hope that's not the case and I'm happy to give the benefit of the doubt as things develop.

In my opinion after the acquisition things have been going very well with the exception of this patron thing. GOG has managed to secure many titles which would have never come here in the first place because CDPR didn't care about GOG at all. They only cared about using GOG as a store to get 100% of the profits for CDPR games.

All those things are good, I agree.