Pawel1995: "GOG has turned down some VERY high quality,"
That's YOUR PERSONAL opinoin. You misss your own point here. Curation is about "What do I want to have on my shelf, in my store. Just because YOU would like to see a game, that doesn't mean that the "average GOG user" and the GOG staff wants to see this game here. If we go about "but X people like this game, maybe" then we are at steam again, because I believe for 100% that every trash game there, has at least 1 fan!
When talking about steam games and its many shovelware ( yes at least 75% is shovelware)
About the at least 1 fan for any ( bad) game, you can safely make that 100 so add at least 2 zeros maybe 3
never forget that games can have loads of buyers and the ratings or reviews do not have to match the sales, most buyers will buy a game an never review a game, i hardly review a game or rate a game i buy what i like.
Now back to numbers:
If a AAA game at 40 usd/EU sells 1.000.000 in a short anmount of time thats KACHING ( money will flow)
40.000.000 is a lot of money.
Now those 'bad' or 'crap' mobile games as most people call them some are listed at > 99 cents, even cheaper at sales up to 75% of list price....
20.000.000 sales at 1 or 2 usd/eu is also 20 to 40 million dollar/eu... and development is much much cheaper... so every game has its own audience and its a good sign people are different.
Anyway you cant talk negative about games ( real shovelware games excepted) that are not AAA or indie, many companies earn a very good living selling 'casualgames' and 'mobile games'.
My first pc games were mainly AAA games ... ( no 3d fpp shooters platform or other motion heavy games)
these games were balanced well in the 70-90s: a number of 3d/fpp and more simple 2d games
but late 90's things changed and 3d/fpp shooters were getting released by the dozen thats why i stopped and switched to casualgames, simple games that: 1) are not time absorbing ( omg: its already 2 am .... )
2) cheaper and small: can be finished in 2-3 hours.
When i signed up in 2014 first thing i did :buy all the favorite games i owned that didnt work or did not work properly (mickeysoft is to blame for that) once i owned all the old games i started to look for new games that could become new good old games: i bough a few dozen and i liked the games.
2015 got less only bought a few old games cuase too many new games wer released compared to the good old games.
2016: barely bought some games and the past year i got maybe 5 of every 30 or 40 released new games, usually i got 5 games from every 10 released.
My latest purchases: form late nov 2016 until now:
Nov 8, 2017
5.09
Rise of the Dragon
5.09
Heart of
China Jul 8, 2017
Antihero Pre-Order
May 4, 2017
5.59
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
Mar 30, 2017
19.99
Thimbleweed Park
Full Throttle Remastered Pre Order
14.99
Feb 16, 2017
5.59
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Feb 2, 2017
5.59 (PAID WITH PaySafeCard)
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Dec 22, 2016
4.19
Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™
Dec 14, 2016
The Little Acre
12.09
Dec 14, 2016
1.69 (PAID WITH PaySafeCard)
Wallet funds used: 0.30
1.99
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator
10 or 11 maybe 12 games in 1 year thats 1 game a month instead of 4 or 5 a month.
Last big haul of games was 2015 : winter/summer sales
Thursday new game , a day i always look if some new old games arrive.
