This topic is not primarily for game Wishes/Dreams, though I'm not going to say "don't post those here" or anything -- particularly if such posts help keep the thread alive! But there already are or have been various other topics (like this one) specifically for trying to solicit votes for games -- plus, the games-only Dreamlist already has a higher profile currently than the old, multi-purpose Wishlist, due to being new and being promoted a fair bit recently.
I want this to be a thread people can use to highlight Wishes for GOG's website, Galaxy client, or services (new Wishes for which should go under whichever of the previous two sections is more relevant). The Movies section of the old Community Wishlist is apparently still operating...but then, the Games section seems to be, too, despite the Dreamlist having been live for months, and GOG adding a banner to the latter saying that it will be made read-only "soon". I wouldn't bother promoting entries in either of those sections at this point, let alone creating new wishes in them; GOG's attempt to sell movies is well and truly dead, and the Dreamlist has rendered the old Games Wishlist section mostly irrelevant for anything other than reference (like for manually "copying" votes over to the Dreamlist wherever GOG didn't).

One thing to keep in mind for newbies: You cannot remove a vote for a Wish! (This, thankfully, is not the case with the new Dreamlist.) So, maybe consider whether the wording of a particular Wish means the same thing as the idea in your head before you vote for it. ;)

To start off, I'll promote the Wish that was the reason that I wanted such a thread in the first place:
Allow users to see [and] change or remove their "helpful"/"unhelpful" votes on others' reviews

Also, even though I've never used Galaxy (and don't intend to), I'll mention a couple overlapping requests for [a] feature[s] that really should've been in the client a long time ago, if not from the beginning:
Select which DLCs you want before installing a game
Install Games Without DLC as default

(P.S.: It should go without saying, but in this thread, ignore trolls and argument/rage-bait, no politics, etc. Civil discussions are okay, but please try to avoid letting them get too far into the weeds, or going on for whole pages at a stretch.)

Ironically afew kinda sorta do have a ''Select which DLCs you want before installing a game''
''Install Games Without DLC as default''

Granted some in more roundabout ways others not so much ..Keep in mind I have not used Galaxy to do so for awhile so a update might have removed the option to just get the base game this way if one has the Dlcs but anyway

the majority of this is where one has to use the Galaxy offline install option and just install the base game offline installs to get the base game..

While other cases you need to download the whole game usually this is the like ''Game of the year'' and iother variantions of that added title where the dlcs are just integrated into the game install fully .. But I have noticed some of these have options to at least disable the integrated DLCs

Still would be nice not to have such added steps in either case if one wishs to just play the base game to start with

But ya I am all for the two you brought up

I'll start with my perennial classic:
Get rid of Galaxy.

I've explained at length on this very forum why I think this wish makes sense, but I suppose I can post a TLDR: I think it's a sinkhole of resources with no ROI.
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Next up, an actual feature request: Editing our reviews.

The way GOG implemented reviews is primitive and backwards, at best. Not only do you have to scroll past two rows of irrelevant content but even looking at them is basically a dice roll. Allowing them to be edited to account for updates, changed minds/introspection, switching the stars for Yes/No/Beige, and having a segment on a user's account dedicated to all reviews, would be quite the improvement.
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Also on the docket: Torrents. Decentralized data streams means better unattended downloading.
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I would posit one of the forum improvement suggestions, but "new forum" would cover most of that; getting rid of reputation, thread/user ignore, better moderation, modern unicode support, et al.
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And I'll pick last: Thanks, but no thanks! The ability to simply mark games off from being suggested or seen (this should be automatic for owned titles) so as to really frustrate the marketing gurus at GOG with our niche and obscure tastes.

Sorry, I could not find it, so I opened a similar one: Drop Galaxy, become a DRM-free store again.

This is unironically my single most wanted change on GOG. It has been since 2014.

Email notifications (optional) for developers so they are notified of forum activity

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/email_notifications_optional_for_developers_so_they_are_notified_of_forum_activity

"I read a developer on the Steam forums apologizing for a late response since Steam did not give them email notifications of community activity. I would argue that this should be optional but at the same time I am at present often hesitant to post problems that I am having on empty forums. This way the developers who wish to be notified can provide help to players and don't have to worry about manually checking GOG's forums."

Why this would be beneficial to GOG.

If developers wish to help players who bought their game on GOG have an easy way to be notified then customer support has to do less troubleshooting. It would also give GOG a feature for developers that Steam apparently does not offer.

Why this would be beneficial to players.

If developers can be notified of bugs or outdated versions on GOG by its users then there is more chance of them actually fixing these things.


Personal experience

I have been trying to contact an indie developer who posted on the forums but has not responded in over a month. I don't know if this person is just too busy or has forgotten to check in after requesting feedback on the game.

I'm not surprised that this thread has had so few responses.

@dnovraD - I can see good reasons for why GOG won't implement your requests.

1. Galaxy is too important to them, and most customers are happy using it, and seemingly prefer using it. I am not against Galaxy, even though I don't like it or use it. That said, I don't like how downloading Offline Installers is almost a hidden feature, making it almost anti DRM-Free or at best DRM-Free Lite.

2. Editing reviews is not a good idea, it is like trying to rewrite history, just stupid. What we should be able to do, is add to our reviews or do a second one. However, a good workaround already exists - Start a thread in the game''s forum and do a brief review on the game page with a link to that as your review. Sure, it means folk have to be willing to click that link, and some surely would, especially if it had become the norm. Hell, you can even do the silly thing and fully edit. My view, is that a review was relevant and true at the time it was made. If the person who made that review later changes their mind, then fair enough, but it doesn't alter their earlier view or impression etc, and so that should still stand and either have an addition added or a second review with the new view.

3. Torrents mean less control for GOG, who want us all to use Galaxy, because they no doubt want statistics etc, perhaps requested by many game providers. It is possible, that if Galaxy didn't exist or most did not use it, that GOG would get less games from providers. Galaxy is probably a necessary evil.

4. New forum might happen one day, but don't hold your breath, and I suspect that the amount of work etc and risk involved, plus cost will mean it never happens. And really, having used many types of forums I don't see any significant benefit, especially for GOG. The lack of oversight or being sporadic is I suspect deliberate, for a bunch of reasons.

5. While I agree in principle about being able to hide games I am not interested in or ones that I already own, there are some issues to be considered. One big one would be the hope you promote GOG games to friends, even ones who don't share your tastes exactly, and also the fact that a person can change their view about a game over time, so a sort of set and forget option would not be ideal from GOG's point of view, when trying to sell as many games as possible. And muddying the waters for marketing gurus could have a detrimental impact on future provisions to the store ... this is especially the case due to a wide range of tastes in games.

So sorry, but I think you are barking up the wrong tree, and there are other aspects of GOG that are far more important for them to be spending time and money and resources on.

All the above is a reply to the following.

Please add a Steam style badge for finishing a gog game. That way there will be an incentive to finish games on gog and you wont have to pay for it, either!

Huh?

Uh-huh. And what exactly counts as "finished" in a game with no absolute end state such as Epic Pinball, SimCity 4, or OpenTTD?

And much like someone wishing for Escape Velocity or Gran Turismo IV, perhaps some of those are expressions of things I wish to happen, trees or otherwise. But perhaps there are acceptable substitutions that can be made.

1) The only thing from Galaxy that I'd find useful is the centralized downloading. The GOG Downloader was good at this.

2) There's no way to ascertain the actual timing of a review, be it never played, based on fuzzy 18 year old memories, 5 years after playing, or yesterday.

GOG themselves have done administrative edits to reviews about bugs that are no longer applicable, but why leave that to the staff? Having people refresh their reviews also prevents staleness flagging and in the case of changes to the review system itself, may allow better detailing or a more nuanced opinion than having to cram it into the blurb on the back of an airport paperback.

I've tried the "link to forum review" and nobody found it useful. Not to mention that minor spelling mistakes and grammatical mistakes are an eyesore; furthermore would this encourage GOG to implement useful subfeatures such as letting users see a collated list of all their reviews.

3) They don't have to be naked magnet links (even if those have click though statistics as well and things like seeding time and so on.), Galaxy could just integrate this feature transparently and seed games per client. That way, it's less of a waste of bandwidth and better than a glorified Chrome in a Box.

4) It doesn't even have to be something they have to code themselves from scratch, but I imagine any newer engine would be a massive improvement in terms of administrative oversight alone. I have in the past, painstakingly listed out a number of open source forum engine implementations that have useful features such as complete Unicode support.

5) The Marketing types can take a long walk off a short pier for all I care.

I feel many of us will suggest games to our peers based on similarity of our own tastes unto others. And I will happily suggest anyone to play games from Spiderweb Software until the sun goes nova, I don't ever see a world where I will in good concious/sound mind, would see myself suggesting a game such as Block'hood (It's incomplete) or A.D. 2044 (This is a MRA handbook in the form of a game.)

Let the players do the curation.

I'm too lazy to add a wish, this one will do.

That's not how this topic works. You're supposed to find an existing wish in the CW for the thing you want (or create the wish, if you can't find an existing one), then post here about it to give it more exposure and maybe get it some more votes.

I doubt that any of these will ever be implemented as one of them is already 10 years old but anyway:

Bringing gog mixes back: www.gog.com/wishlist/site/bring_back_gog_mixes

Ignore game function: www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_ignore_game_feature

Ignore function for the forum: www.gog.com/wishlist/site/an_ignore_function_to_block_idiots_from_harassing_you_on_the_forums

They could also add a timer function that unlocks the badge if you play the game for 3 hours or more.

This↑ Also this↑ And also this↑ a game that was trash at release might improve with patches and vice versa. Along with preventing non-owner trolls from rating, but i would also like GoG to add "product refunded" and "product received for free" tags to review section.

Some better linux support wishes:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/bring_feral_interactive_and_aspyr_to_gog
Linux ports by Feral Interactive are missing for a lot of games!

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games
This one is a bit baffling, it is marked as completed/fulfilled!
Yet: XCOM: Enemy Unknown NO LINUX!, XCOM 2 NO LINUX!, Alien: Isolation NO LINUX!, Age of Wonders III NO LINUX!, Dawn of War II NO LINUX!, Tomb Raider 2013, yes linux port exist, but again NO LINUX!, Crusader Kings II NO LINUX... this are just some of the examples of games that have an existing linux version, but not on GOG (ideally every single game on GoG should have a linux version to fulfil this wish)! GoG had no right to tag this wish completed, it's a plain lie!

and

Get rid of the DRM in your games! Oh yes, definitely implement torrents as an additional download option, since GoG downloader is gone. We need more (and faster) download options!