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Posted October 17, 2018
City of Brass

Nethergate: Resurrection
Posted October 17, 2018
Why was Tunnel B1 rejected?
Posted October 17, 2018
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Source: Kickstarter for Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

" Here's their message :

"We’ve taken a look at your title, it seems like an engaging game with some cool features.
Unfortunately, however, we feel that it would not be a good fit for GOG. Right now we are fully focused on releasing titles that are going to be a perfect match for our users.
I am afraid that your title does not match our criteria, so we need to pass on it." "

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/983902887/demetrios/comments
Posted October 17, 2018
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Barry_Woodward: Nyu Media circa 2014: "I think a bigger factor would be that GOG haven't ever accepted any of the games we've submitted to them. We've had 3 rejections from them so far, all basically along the lines of: 'We’ve taken a look at your games, there are some interesting looking titles there! Unfortunately, however, we feel that the games would not be a good fit for GOG as arcade style games, such as yours, generally do not perform well for us.'"
I realize GOG needs to make money, but the problem I have with this reasoning is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. GOG favors genres like RPGs, adventures, and strategy games, therefore arcade game fans don't think to look there for their favorite games, therefore GOG can't make money selling arcade games, so they don't sell them, so no one looks to GOG for them, etc.
Posted October 17, 2018
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Barry_Woodward: Nyu Media circa 2014: "I think a bigger factor would be that GOG haven't ever accepted any of the games we've submitted to them. We've had 3 rejections from them so far, all basically along the lines of: 'We’ve taken a look at your games, there are some interesting looking titles there! Unfortunately, however, we feel that the games would not be a good fit for GOG as arcade style games, such as yours, generally do not perform well for us.'"
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andysheets1975: I realize GOG needs to make money, but the problem I have with this reasoning is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. GOG favors genres like RPGs, adventures, and strategy games, therefore arcade game fans don't think to look there for their favorite games, therefore GOG can't make money selling arcade games, so they don't sell them, so no one looks to GOG for them, etc.
Bingo. Though I would argue that this seems to be happening with some games from the other genres and even some older games as of late on gog.
Post edited October 17, 2018 by Lucian_Galca
Posted October 17, 2018
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kalirion: Plenty of devs, like the one I linked, have come straight out and stated that GOG rejected their game. It would be a big enough list if you just compile all of those, no speculation needed.
well, , there will always be some people who will claim that direct public statement or confirmation from devs or publishers through their official communication channels are NOT good confirmation enough :)

any similarity with any known existing user would be purely accidental
Posted October 18, 2018
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andysheets1975: I realize GOG needs to make money, but the problem I have with this reasoning is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
^ This. The similar argument against games being rejected a second time "because they already sold well on Humble" is circular reasoning - Humble sells well by picking up the extra sales that GOG would have had but voluntarily lost by rejecting them during initial launch in the first place...
Posted October 18, 2018
A Rite from the Stars

Source: Kickstarter for A Rite from the Stars

"We expect to make another announcement this week. Our plan is to be on GOG, yes. However,they have to review the game first (they have an admission process). But we expect to make the cut."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/risingoat/a-rite-from-the-stars-a-3d-graphic-adventure/comments


As the game isn't on GOG, we can assume that they didn't make it through the process.
Posted October 18, 2018
"Too niche" is GOG's copy and paste rejection.

Dr Dungeon's Madman

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/madman

A game that emulates Ultima classics, something this website was founded on - 'Good Old Games' is considered too niche.

"Hi Robert,

Thanks a lot for your submission and your interest in GOG.

We’ve taken a look at Dr. Dungeon's MADMAN!, it looks like an engaging and addictive RPG with cool in depth mechanic and big open world.

Unfortunately, however, we feel that the game would not be a good fit for GOG, as we think that it appears to be too niche and a bit too small in scale in terms of production value for our core users, which means that we aren’t confident in its release potential on our site.

For these reasons I’m afraid we will have to pass on Dr. Dungeon's MADMAN!

If you have any other games in the future that might be a better fit for GOG, please let us know, and hopefully we’ll be able to work together."

Dr Dungeon's post on GOG forums
Posted October 20, 2018
Look at all those rejected shooters...

GOG your curators are ignorant scumbags who create their own self-fulfilling prophecies.
Posted October 20, 2018
Wait GOG regected Pushover? I'd love to know the reasoning behind that decision.
Posted October 20, 2018
The Consuming Shadow and The Charnel House Trilogy
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/the_consuming_shadow
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/the_charnel_house_trilogy
Maiyannah Bishop tweeted this: "Word is they approached Yahtz and then turned him down, which is even more of a headscratcher. Honestly, while I would hardly call the visuals of The Consuming Shadow next-gen or anything ... there's worse on GOG. GOG recently rejected it because they didn't feel the visuals were up to snuff, according to him. For instance, not to pick on the developer thereof, but Richard & Alice is on GOG and it boots to a 320x240 resolution. Strangely, Charnel House Trilogy, that same developer's later game, also got rejected from GOG, and its objectively better."
Post edited October 20, 2018 by Barry_Woodward
Posted October 20, 2018
Void & Meddler
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/void_meddler
djdarko contacted the devs and received this response: "Thanks for your email, we are very excited to release Void&Meddler! About GOG, we would like to release the game on it, but it seems GOG disagree. But you can order the game on Humblestore, or on our website, it's DRM-free."
Posted October 20, 2018
Dominique Pamplemousse
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/dominique_pamplemousse
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/dominique_pamplemousse_2_combinatorial_explosion
The dev tweeted this: "It’s stuff like that I hit up against with @DomPamplemousse. Even certain game stores like GOG refused it based on the content."
https://twitter.com/TheSeg/status/496098093448716288
Posted October 20, 2018
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Darvond: To try and compile such a list would be outright folly, it is unknowable without direct confirmation what they have turned down.
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Linko90:
"We didn't said that those games were rejected, so devs are lying through their teeths, they should be sued for defamation since GoG never rejected a single good game, so we're gonna sue them... actually we're not gonna sue them, but not because they're telling the truth, we're just good guys. Except when we sue people who pirated Witcher 2. But we're great. Buy more abandonware.

Yours truly,
Linko90".
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