Did you read this dev's comments after GoG's rejection?

Check out what he is saying about GoG (and other aspects of society) here:
rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/gog-turns-down-grimoire-for-publishing.126050/

The guy is clearly unhinged. It's not just that Reddit thread. This guy has been an issue for years.

But that is really only one aspect of this.

For supposedly 600 hours of gameplay and how great a game it supposedly is, why are only 12 people playing it on Steam yesterday and 367 reviews in a year and a half? Even if you blame review brigading for the low user score, where are the rest of the positive reviews? For comparison, Hatred which was released in 2015 still has 30 concurrent players and 5,682 Steam reviews. This is the definition of "niche".

It's one thing to take a chance on a new release with first day sales potential and be wrong. It's another to bring in a game which is already released and has been shown not to be impressing anyone. The dev and his temper tantrums just make it worse.

Other games on GoG have unpleasant devs or publishers. Is it only because it upsets the sjw clique on GoG?

I had a quick look at the game but it looks like a lot of similar games of that genre. What's good about this one.

You can't *just* buy one of these games.

Wizardry 1 is not available on this site.

The other two games are available, but only in bundles, so you can't buy them without also buying World of Xeen or Ultima 3, both of which are generally considered good games (especially WoX).

I read the first page of that ealier and I saw that they there were calling GOG bowing to the SJWs and tbh I kinda get the point that is being made there.

GOG might of said that "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 users, which means that we aren’t confident in its release potential on our site."

But we all know thats just GOG's generic code for not wanting a game for a number of reasons.

And that leads you to think that given GOG's recent issues with Twitter and such that a developer that seems to be in the wrong (depsite everyone in that situation with the developer being in the wrong) that GOG just dont want the hassle.

You need to read his comments on further pages too...he starts circling down the drain...

I can't respond sensibly to your points about that specific thread as I haven't read it myself.
I was more commenting about Cleve's online demeanor in general. He has posted in many fora and threads (Steam, RPG Codex etc.), And especially anywhere users had (founded or unfounded) criticism of either his game or his behaviour.

If you look beyond the Reddit thread you mentioned you'll find many more fine examples. And I'm not saying other people did nothing wrong either - just that some things he said in the past are either objectively untrue, amount up to personal attacks and name-calling instead of constructive debate or are downright unacceptable (cursing, insults etc. towards others)

Most likely because hes annoyed that is game is not allowed by GOG. We all know GOG blocked it due to the backlash people would give them and tbh i'd be pissed off too.

Tbh I agree with KiNgBrAdLeY7 ealier in the thread. People who complain about a developer and maage to block a game cause of that are no better than people who complain about adult content and get a game blocked on those grounds.

Edit:

And he could of handled it better, sure. But hes not on the Digital Homicide scale at all.

I'm not making any statements about whether GOG has valid reasons for rejecting the game. I was merely pointing out that Cleve has a 'lively' online presence and that the criticism of him is at least partially based on things he actually did say and do and that anyone spending 10 minutes to read up on the subject can find what I mean..

As a side note, personally I would deem any business relationship with him a risk and potentially damaging for my company. That would be MY reason for rejecting the game.

And he sure plays up this "GoG stalking him for his game" but if you read on, you'll find GoG kept asking him about it from 2012-2015. Then he decided to release it exclusively on Steam about a year and a half ago and it didn't do well. But now, GoG somehow should be obligated to accept it.

Just a guess, but it very well might have been accepted if it was released here simultaneously with Steam in 2017.

And thats bad yes. But for GOG to give them the generic response and disallow it they shouldn't of done. If that was the reason then GOG need to grow backbone and say it. Then people would understand why, but as far as we know GOG blocked it cause of the reasons already said on the thread.

Hilarous how they mention the low production values considering all the cheap flash/browser games they release.

Also the dev is a complete moron, he's currently taking shit at the Codex and blowing his rep while saying how he's simply going to move on to the next storefront.

I will never really understand the fuss about all those games GOG rejected. It's their decision, they don't need to have to explain why a game has been rejected or not and the supposedly given explanation does not have to make any sense at all if you think about it. They don't have to offer certain games at all. It's up to them. I don't contact amazon to complain about a certain product that is unavailable there and which I would want to buy. GOG is a store and they make decisions regarding what they want in their store and what not. If it's not here it's sad but nothing I can change. In fact since there are still a few other DRM-free stores available at all I might simply buy a certain game there - problem solved. However I do understand that people today simply like to complain so go ahead. Waste of time imo - but nobody needs to share my opinion. :)

Hear fucking hear!

There's also this bit from the RPG Codex thread in case anyone's missed it: Quite telling.

Probably because it took Cleve forever to put it out, forever to update and I think people are still waiting on a manual.

If he's like other devs who update their Steam version first then other stores later, we'd all be dead before the first patch.