Thank you for your support. I've had trolls attack me for just wanting to have the ability to choose what sorts of games I see here and that gets really old so your reply is refreshing.

Thanks for upvoting it. The likelihood of GOG actually implementing it is low but man, it'd be a nice feature to have. And your solution could work alongside mine to create the fairest scenario for everyone going forward.
I'd guess that the appeal is the same sort of appeal that browsing questionable sites late at night has for many people, sadly.

yep a filter to curation like it had before
gog was fine without these "games"
then why dont they just use those site probably for free instead of buying these "games"?
I wonder how much buyers are for these especially here at gog , i cant imagine they worth the effort to add them to this store
maybe gog curators just like to "play" these all day or something

Perhaps some further explanation is needed. The ability to manually exclude games and genres or mark them as favourite would be nice, but I don't think it addresses the contentious issue at hand at all, namely, children and sensitive adults being greeted with a DIK to the face (or Agony or Succubus or whatever) when they enter GOG or browse the site.

Thus, far as implementation priority goes, I argue in favour of preventive measures that would leave everyone happy and GOG-chan's rear firmly covered over reactive measures that would be harder to implement on GOG's part, would require the user to manually blacklist games after being exposed to them, and would do nothing to minimize the usual outrage of moral guardians when another adult game comes about.

Probably for the same reason people have been known to pay for such content on said websites.

I totally understand what you're saying and I agree entirely.

No it wasn't. In all recent years, including this one, 2021, GOG has either been a) bleeding lots of money and/or b) barely making any profit at all.

GOG has certainly been nowhere close to being 'fine.'

GOG leaving money on the table in order to appease the Puritan/censorship-minded section of its customer base makes zero sense.

If GOG were to continue to ban AO games solely for Puritan/censorship reasons, like it used to do before a months ago, then that means 100% of the money for those games goes to platforms that don't censor & ban them for Puritan reasons, i.e. Steam, Manga Gamer, JAST, etc.

it does make sense , customers are leaving as they don't want to see these "games" here

A few will, yes.

But I would bet GOG has more customers who aren't in favor of censorship than those who are. So on the whole, keeping AO games on GOG is in GOG's best interest.

On another note: the calls to ban these games because of their AO content, and saying they have no value and are somehow "not games" because they have AO content, is quite ridiculous.

How come there are no calls to ban all three Witcher games off of GOG? All three of them have AO porn content in them.

So what makes it okay for GOG to host those Witcher "porn games," but yet they cannot host other AO games? What exactly makes Witcher's porn content "more legit" than the so-called porn content in other AO games?

Why the double standard?

Why the selective cherrypicking about which "porn games" are suitable, and which must be banned?

dont favor censorship? yet their actions show otherwise , constant dvoting probably with scripts

nope it is not gogs best interest at all , it is like letting in bums to a restaurant and sell them alcohol shots, maybe they will spend a few of their pennies there but normal customers will just leave

cause witcher games are action rpg-s with a little nude content and they are real quality enjoyable games even without the nude parts
these things are not like that at all

witchers as porn games?:O you really want to label things they are not just to prove your point...

Because moralists always have double standards?

about double standards
what games you wouldnt let on gog? scam games? barly working asset flips? micro payment fests? addiction abusing gambling simulators?

there is the double standards of "let gog sell everything which brings in money" crowd , as im sure there would be games they wouldnt want to be sold here , while claiming everything is okay....

Looking at the best sold in the near past list - think it pays out for GoG...

I also think it's crap, but you have to respect the audience that likes it, because it's not about "me" or "you", it's about the plurality of the community, which is why I'm in favor of any and every game genre around here, since that the games are good for the target audience and that they are properly updated and working.

I can't agree with this whole mindset of "hey let's annoy the people that we don't like, that'll show them". Anybody can see that adult content is a contentious issue and there's really no reason to spread ill will and division. If there's gonna be a lot of it then just make it an opt-in part of the store and everybody should be happy enough.

And yeah, I'll opt-in.

This is agreeable I think

Agreed