Thanks GOG

It's Good Old Gaming actually, in the sense that unlike Steam you own the games you buy. So you're wrong since the very beginning.

This seems to be the divining factor with GOG. On the other hand, this seems to have happened after all the complaints about curation and the positive responses when gog reverses a particular decision. None of these games look that appealing to me (i did hit the free button on the free one, of course, 'cause you can't argue with free, especially after buying a 4TB hard drive to house the rest of my gog collection), but i'd rather have the option to reject it by not buying it than not have the opportunity to buy something I want.

if they dont look appealing to you, you don't have to buy them pal

A cynical person would say that Steam's budding attempts at curation seem to be robbing GOG of the very thing that made it appealing to discerning gamers, but I for one am happy to see an established company unabashedly catering to a vilified, marginalized, misunderstood demographic. Better let them work out their stuff through a piece of non-choice interactive media acquired through a regulated, monitored storefront. Choices are hard, and some of us are bad at making them.

I'm not. If you pay attention to what i'm implying, their lack of appeal to me is indicative of the fact my tastes don't agree with the GOG customer base. So, it is worth pointing out, that while some people have a problem with it, the fact that this topic is now on page 19 within 24 hours of posting, vs how previous posts were, is indicative that alot more people like it than don't. Didn't to the censorship topic hijacking the XSEED thing take almost a week to get to page 14 alone? I may disagree with the taste, but it almost merits a topic of it's own to just point out how hot this topic is.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems as if you're suggesting people are here for the curation instead of the "DRM free."

I finally caved and got the first Pillars release alongside of few games for my sis. I don't care much for Paradox, but I do generally find something to like in Obsidian games. The strategy games largely aren't my cup of tea.

But why do people care about DRM(Free)? To avoid corporations meddling with the content of a game or your ability to access it. Steam doesn't allow you to decline updates on games, some of which have been to censor. There's MANY advantages to DRM free, quite a few of them that would benefit audiences who want old or niche VNs with content that is controversial to the average person.

GOG in the OP of this thread, and many users, are calling visuals novels "games" even though they aren't. That's a different issue to the question of whether or not they belong here. They may belong here, but they doesn't mean they should be described inaccurately in ways that misrepresent them. Lots of people who hear that visual novels are "games" will be given a misleading impression and then buy and launch one or more VNs expecting them to be games. They are going to be rightfully irate when they discover after the fact that a bait & switch scam was pulled on them.

So my point is, call them what they are, and there is no issue. But start muddying the waters by calling them games, then that opens up lots of cans of worms.

Corporations will meddle no matter what. I came here so that once i buy something, I don't have to (or shouldn't have to) worry about things changing. If i have a version that works on my computer, i don't need some silly client that does nothing but make it harder to run well on my computer. Most importantly, the copy i have now, I can play 20 years from now on the same computer if i have it, just like i can with my old disk copies.

Personally, i think curation is a sort of necessary evil with gog: they can't install and support every game on the market. But, to be fair, i think GOG's curation should limit itself to whether or not the game can turn a profit after figuring the cost of writing an article and taking up space on the drive. The bandwidth and support cost should be figured into the price itself, rather than determining whether or not it should be on GOG. I understand that can be hard to guess, but GOG isn't basing it's curation on those factors.

Not this crap again. This comes from yet more people who are inexperienced with this genre.

Yes, some VNs don't have choices. These are called Kinetic Novels or KNs but are still widely regarded as VNs just like FPS games are primarily referred to as FPS in general conversation even if they have some other genre blending like RPG mechanics.

Does a VN being a KN and not having choice areas that make them not games? I dunno, maybe. But does it matter? They often have cued music to play at appropriate times, sound effects and art/writing crafted to make it all come together for an interesting story an a unique experience. Is it not a game? Then neither is Gone Home where there is no choices. Its content is that of a 3D demo where you look at objects and have sound effects and music played at different times (and can be 'completed' in minutes). I'd say even kinetic novels are more of a game than that because at least they have a save feature and take a while to get through.

They can't meddle with your DRM free version after the fact. This is important to games that have a high chance of being removed or censored. You appreciate that the lack of DRM helps you enjoy the product years from now with no activation needed. This is very helpful for content that is lightweight and might remain on a system for years before being accessed or moved to a new system. This is exactly what happens with VNs a lot of the time.

Whoa! The impossible actually happen! I'm really glad from the bottom of my heart that GOG.com finally decided to publish Visual Novels especially from renowned companies such as Mangagamer and Sekai Project!

Many thanks GOG.COM, Mangagamer, and Sekai Project! More power to you people!!!

This is truly a miracle! Today's a good day to be alive!!!

Hope to see more quality Visual Novels make its way through GOG.COM!!!

Please bring Moékuri and other Visual Novel RPG hybrid from Mangagamer!

Moekuri is more of a cute Final Fantasy Tactics clone than a VN.

I'd be very happy if GoG was able to bring over Utawarerumono.

It'd be nice to buy it instead of just pirating it, fucking with the patches and all that shit
It technically is an old classic VN that a lot of people consider legendary. But that's a bit of an odd request, and coming from someone who just wants to play it despite not having played many VNs before.

Evidence needed. I've played the game and I certainly don't consider it that way...nor have I ever seen someone regarding it like that.