Posted January 29, 2016
Since GOG likes to hold Insomnia sales and Mystery Game sales (or whatever it gets called at the time),
I would like to suggest / ask for games from the "Games in Development" category to be specifically excluded from these types of sales.
With the Insomnia Sales (at least from my understanding), as the games only advance / change once the stock for the current game is exhausted, some people might be genuinely pissed off by the fact of having unfinished games included in said list might have very negative effects on the overall progress of said sale (While I wasn't personally there, people still like to bring up the Jack Keane debacle, where the sale wouldn't advance because the game was largely rejected and just wouldn't sell)
As for Mystery Games, while some people like to gamble, the fact that there "might" be unfinished games in the lot, unbeknown to the anyone besides GOG, could potentially annoy even more people, along with decreasing the overall willingness to take that risk to begin with and put some off them off completely (as it'd be a double gamble, one for the game you get, one for the chance of it ever finishing).
And while I personally don't mind these games being included in / going on sale along others (or being here in general, as long as they don't hurt the addition of finished games, old and new, DRM-Free), with both these specific types of sales they'd more likely than not be very unwelcomed, as to a lot of people it would feel like GiD Games were literally hamfisted down their throat, especially when some people already voiced concern / made clear their unwillingness to buy them.
Hope it will be possibl to get some clarification on this subject, both as there has been no mention of it being made in the News Topic, and as I'm not even completely sure GOG Staff has completely considered the possible future effects of its inclusion on these specific sale types yet...
And somewhat off-topic: Would also be nice to have a Filter Option for GiD Games or otherwise games on does NOT want (working along with the wishlist and acting as a hide option for not purchased games, but that's more of a suggestion for the future...)
I would like to suggest / ask for games from the "Games in Development" category to be specifically excluded from these types of sales.
With the Insomnia Sales (at least from my understanding), as the games only advance / change once the stock for the current game is exhausted, some people might be genuinely pissed off by the fact of having unfinished games included in said list might have very negative effects on the overall progress of said sale (While I wasn't personally there, people still like to bring up the Jack Keane debacle, where the sale wouldn't advance because the game was largely rejected and just wouldn't sell)
As for Mystery Games, while some people like to gamble, the fact that there "might" be unfinished games in the lot, unbeknown to the anyone besides GOG, could potentially annoy even more people, along with decreasing the overall willingness to take that risk to begin with and put some off them off completely (as it'd be a double gamble, one for the game you get, one for the chance of it ever finishing).
And while I personally don't mind these games being included in / going on sale along others (or being here in general, as long as they don't hurt the addition of finished games, old and new, DRM-Free), with both these specific types of sales they'd more likely than not be very unwelcomed, as to a lot of people it would feel like GiD Games were literally hamfisted down their throat, especially when some people already voiced concern / made clear their unwillingness to buy them.
Hope it will be possibl to get some clarification on this subject, both as there has been no mention of it being made in the News Topic, and as I'm not even completely sure GOG Staff has completely considered the possible future effects of its inclusion on these specific sale types yet...
And somewhat off-topic: Would also be nice to have a Filter Option for GiD Games or otherwise games on does NOT want (working along with the wishlist and acting as a hide option for not purchased games, but that's more of a suggestion for the future...)
This question / problem has been solved by ZFR