All NSFW games already are hidden behind a NSFW prompt. You don't see any explicit images anywhere until you ask for them. Game titles also don't contain anything explicit. Some thumbnails are suggestive, but that applies to many NSFW games too.

Asking GOG to hide NSFW games by default is asking them to lower their income, and so is asking GOG to allow you to hide entire categories.

For what?

If you see a suggestive title, you can't know whether it's an erotic game or not. Most erotic games have fully SFW versions and all the NSFW is hidden behind a DLC, so you'd still see these.

People can always bookmark this link and use it instead of the front page if they feel threatened by the possibility that one of the suggestive game thumbnail hides an erotic game behind a NSFW prompt:

https://www.gog.com/en/games?excludeTags=nsfw

Problem solved.

Yeah, but what was the hurry? Folk who can't slow down or do stuff at a normal speed, can't then have an expectation of others and blame them. It was pretty obvious in the cart, where only a bundle was listed, that that was what you were getting. And surely, if you were like those who have been complaining about not being able to pick individual games, you would have paused at that point and checked, so I don't understand how you could make a mistake, unless your brain was switched off, which once again is not GOG's fault.

All that said, I do agree GOG could have made it clearer. They could have had a single GET THE BUNDLE button, and clicking on the listed games should just have taken you to each game page. But hey, we know what GOG are like.

So Why not Gog Just have this set as a checkmark for all users "Account" or "Privacy"?
I'm against Censorship, but On Steam it asks you to allow NSFW - and I didn't. Gog should have such setting.

Also, Did they change the page https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html ?
Clicking on Postal now leads to While Agony, for example to and similarly each game has its own code

I imagine it's one or more of the following:

- technical difficulty to filter out games that are NSFW for non-sexual conent (which people who want this filter probably want to keep seeing, so they would complain about it)

- technical difficulty of maintaining multiple versions of promo material, front page selections, carousel content (the big slider at the top), and others

- NSFW games typically come as SFW games with NSFW content, so these wouldn't be hidden (and people would complain again)

- loss of income from people who think they don't want to see NSFW games but eventually found something they like

- it kinda opens the door to the concept of "permanently hiding store categories I don't like", almost no store does this

- NSFW games are already protected by the NSFW prompt so people can just not click on what they don't like...?

- GOG already offers you a way to browse its store with all NSFW titles hidden, using negative filters. Anyone can bookmark the link I've provided and it's done.

Again, GOG never shows you anything explicit without you asking for it. SFW games often use suggestive thumbnails too.

If you already know a game contains porn just by its name then... how come you know that if you hate NSFW games so much?

It's just feeding the idea that erotic games are something to be completely hidden and shameful. It's the other way around, puritans who go ballistic when porn exist need to learn how to co-exist with other normal people.

Obviously, it would be a completely different question if GOG showed you explicit images by default. It doesn't. Also you need parental oversight if you want to access GOG and you're below 18 so it's not "about children" either.


EDIT: Whenever I say "you" I mean "someone". Nothing personal here, just to be clear.

It appears they have.

GOG have listened or been beseeched by the game devs.or both. They possibly also got sick of folk contacting Support to remove the unwanted games.

A shame for those of us who did not have that choice.