When you do the research all those things don't matter, Not to mention have an army of back-up hard drives. Even games here aren't secure and some have been taken off the storefront without any mention. I know you keep them in your list but that shows how some people will never get the chance to get the games the legal way. Then again even GOG says it can't get certain games and suggest sometimes the illegal way will, in the end, be the better solution for all problems.

Is this new Wizardry game multiplayer?
(There have been games released on GOG without the multiplayer component before. Not saying I like it when they are though, just pointing it out.)

I personally don't care about achievements so it wouldn't bother me, but I know other people do so they are not without worth.

They list Denuvo anti-tamper as a DRM on game pages.

Because otherwise we have Microsoft and Rockstar, and more games from EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Warner Bros, etc. here by now.

I remember when even cult classic older games with a decent following got released here....to both generate revenue AND please the userbase. Nowadays I wonder how many of them would've passed muster and been accepted if they had to pass the current curation process. :\

Sorry, I thought about it and still can't recall what the reason was. Now I'm not even sure if the online mode was the reason the game didn't release on gog...could be something completely different.

DRM Free is definitely why I keep coming back to buy new games from GOG.

Many recently rejected games have happily offered to make them DRM free for GOG.....GOG still turned them down.

Exchanging opinions isn't a Civil war unless you can't cope with different opinions. I always think it's refreshing to hear different sides. But all eventually decisions should be logically based which I see a lot of people disregard when it comes to why it shouldn't be on the store while people who want it gives an easy reply, ''Why?''

Some people just care about what they want and then there are people like me who just feel that the community in itself should decide by releasing the game and looking at how the game is reviewed. The game Deadly premonitions was a more broken game and that was released here and still was a masterpiece regardless of how it looked or played.
Sadly they don't, Cause in the end the idea is longevity for these older games so they don't disappear.

A possible fix: Let the wishlist numbers act as a moderator to the final decision(along with staff curation opinions), or even a "saving roll" if curators reject a title(if the wishlist numbers are high enough then that rejected game would get another shot via a poll of some sort/some other sort of vote).

I know what you mean. I would like to see more DOS games released here. T_T

I'm asking because peeps complain when games release here without every single bell and whistle that the Steam versions have. Galaxy implementation might be as much -- or more -- of an issue than curation is.

So I guess you think it's like "Who's line is it anyway?" 0.o
Imo GOG uses curation to make them seem like a better storefront with a better game selection(on average), but it also makes them seem too high and mighty to some who used to see them as the "game store underdog" fighting to get hard to find titles to the masses who loved/played them when they were younger(or always wanted to do so).

It's not so much about the games themselves as the symbolism of it. GOG are abandoning the audience that made them what they are today, the fans who bought Baldur's Gate, Arcanum, Fallout, Icewind Dale, and are instead chasing the younger, gen-Z audience with all the artsy pretentious indie games. GOG are pretty much saying "Yeah you guys put us on the map, but we don't need you anymore".

You can see these people on this forum, they rarely talk, they just lurk and downvote everyone who disagrees with the direction GOG are going in. They don't talk because they have no arguments.

Thank you for the clarification.

It is vexing when the GOG version has less features than can be found elsewhere.

Some times if it is small stuff I don't mind as much though.