Judging by the copypasted rejection letters that keep leaking out, this is either a brazen lie or your "dedicated team" is even more grossly incompetent than imagined and should be fired immediately before they do even worse damage to this company.

You can call me crazy, but I reckon most devs prefer their games to actually sell something rather than just be dumped somewhere in the back room. The front page is a good way to promote the game for those people who have not heard of it but might be interested in it.

I want to clarify my earlier post, that I am NOT saying people with valid complaints are the same as people trashing the place left and right.

What I meant was, it gets hard to differentiate the two, because some people just enjoy trashing GOG, and others have valid concerns, but with both of these people creating the same threads, it's easy to see why some people get frustrated with some subjects.

I didn't mean to call anyone out, and I have the utmost respect for my fellow gog'ers. Have a great day
-Cym

This seems to be a genuinely heartfelt clarification and a good stance to have in general. +1

Beat me to it, couldn't have said it better myself.

If the so-called explanation is just the copy paste explanation we are getting as replies you sure are asking devs and consumers alike to catch flies in the dark. This makes no sense.

I also question the so-called dedicated gamers you hired? you sure they aren't just a bunch of casuals that play cellphone games cause they sure couldn't tell the difference between a lump of gold and a lump of shit.

Make some damn guidelines that way we are more clear on what the rules are. right now you just saying what has been speculated that games are judged on personal bias. I don't like sports games so if I were to work for GOG I could just say to each sports game that it's bad and not enjoyable and stop its release.

Guess GOG does work on an Orwellian style selection process cause it sure ain't on a logical one.

Gog's whole explanation to devs summed up nicely.

''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 users, which means that we aren’t confident in its release potential on our site''

Well.... that explains, nothing!! other than we don't like it on a personal level, or developer you a low indie dev and we will decide if your game is quality, not the labor you had to go through to create something.

Well, that may be the major reason, why i stick to Steam as Main-Launcher / Story and prefer to buy an majority of games there than on GOG, due i really dislike it when strangers try to tell me what good games are and which i need to like. I rather have an Plattform, where we have an open market with the risk of some bad games, but every can decide themself which games they want to play and enjoyed, instead of an plattform where it is dictated by the Company, and sometimes give the vibe of it's decided via gambling or if people who curate them have either an good or bad day(or even worse because something doesn't fit their own political agenda... don't claim it's gog like that, but i want still point out the possibility) or simply because it doesn't hit their tastes instead of fairly judging.

Also i find it quit funny to see, that here some people complain about people who make an new topic instead of necro-ing the older ones, while in the majority of forums you would either get complained or even banned by mods if you do necro-ing...

/Edit:
I have to add, i don't care enough about this whole topic to discuss this out on an bigger scale, because like i mentioned, i still have steam. But i still felt i should throw my opinion into here, because for me GoG is the only Launcher / Store where i truly feel it could compete with Steam and unlike Epic, without dirty anticonsumer tricks. But if i miss way more than a half of Games, because someone decides on an whim which games deserve to land in the store, then i stick to the store which offers more. And there also doesn't help this elitism attitude of "but quality over quantity" because who voted this person to decide that for me, what for me personally is quality content and what not. Which is quite a bit sad, due i rather support an european company instead of an american company.

Okay well, scratch that "a little less of this incessant bitching" part. XD

I don't enjoy trashing gog. I used to love gog. I own over 1000 games here. My PC games retailer of choice!

So it hurts all the more to see them shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly, then upgrading to shooting themselves in the foot with shotguns and now they're riding their wheelchair-bound asses right off a cliff into a firery pit of lava - and I'm displeased with that. And I voice my displeasure accordingly.

Sorry if my honesty disturbs you.

That's exactly the vibe I got from Ashleee's reply as well.

I really wouldn't be surprised if that is how it goes. Would explain why their curation is so bad.

The whole explanation seeks more to blame the devs for either low productions, while games like ''Unbound: worlds apart'' having only 2 devs seems to make them a low class in GOGs eyes cause they can't match a production staff of let's say, 50 people. Cause all games that are niche have a low budget and those devs try to make the best of what they got but seem GOG now puts the blame on them.

You gotta question their so-called Dedicated gamers who are most likely just casual gamers that play dumb shit like Fortnite 24/7 and call that innovative.

Sidenote: Many here also dislike old threads being necro'd in most cases, and also dislike new threads on certain topics, so they're gonna hate it either way(for some).

This reminds me of all the classic games thta had small teams that are sold on GOG.....iirc games like Duke Nukem 1/2/3D, Blake Stone(series), and many others had small teams and are still popular/bought to this day on GOG/etc. So yeah, if they ARE making judgements based on scope of the dev team size/etc then that's a stupid way to curate(imo).

This is literaly the answer to my email... which took 4 days to be read and answered...

So to know the reasons behind this we must contact XSEED then? Is that what you're saying?

You forgot the important part where I typed "I didn't mean to call anyone out, and I have the utmost respect for my fellow gog'ers. Have a great day" but go ahead and take it personal, even though I explicitly made it non personal.

Even if you do that expect XSEED to say that GOG said it was too niche for their storefront. As that's the only reason GOG seem to be able to give as for games not being allowed on their storefront.