I will admit to not looking into the forums here on the issue of crashing without connection. With everything else that was going on, I assumed that it was part of the program's big data link to Paradox.

Thanks for mentioning it.

From the list:

"Sam & Max Save the World
GOG version suffers from a near game-breaking bug, Telltale flat-out refused to provide GOG with
a patched version, despite selling a DRMed build without this bug on their own store."

This is not completely true. While the bug of the invisible Sybill can be reproduced it's also still in downloadable version on the Telltale site. The only version at this moment that does not have this bug is the DVD they offered to give away for free if you bought the whole season. This DVD however is not available anymore.

Might as well remove it then. According to your description in the corresponding wishlist entry, the reason why this bug isn't on the DVD is not that they fixed it for the DVD, but rather that the DVD featured an old build and the bug hadn't been introduced yet (and Telltale refused to release another patch, since the game was "too old" at this point.

So, technically, this is the same as any other build currently available online and it is the latest build. That would make it a candidate for the hypothetical "Dick moves by scumbag companies you shouldn't give money to"-gogmix, but not really for this one.

What's the public consensous on this? Kick off the list or keep for prosperity (it is a sort-of game-breaking bug after all)?

If that's the case, then I guess it should be removed from the list. But it's still ridiculous that Telltale can't be bothered to fix this or other issues with some of their games. It's why I won't touch their games.

Advent Rising received a patch on Steam four months ago that added a new launcher with additional graphical settings such as Widescreen support, Vsync, Trilinear Filtering and FOV. The patch yet to arrive here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/3800/announcements/detail/3277933988969448665

In addition, the soundtrack was released for free for Steam users five months ago. Just like the patch, it has yet to arrive here.

If there's no difference from what you can get elsewhere, definitely not material for this list... but for one for games not to buy at all, and companies not to support at all.

Ditto.

Now... who's creating such GOGmix? :P

What about this one: https://www.gog.com/mix/games_you_probably_should_not_support ?

A bit too Linux-centric, perhaps?

Not that I'd complain, mind you, but I'm sure many would bitch about it. :\

True, but you have to start somewhere ;)

Expanding it with non-Linux issues would alleviate these concerns though

OT: I'd love to see a new iteration of the GOGmixes, they are useful but utterly clunky and don't really fit into the rest of the website imho

Seems more likely that if they'll do something about them they're more likely to remove them altogether...

By popular demand, I removed Sam & Max Save The World.

I'll put the corresponding description here, just in case anyone would like to copypaste the text into their prospective "Telltale can go suck a fat one!" gogmix. You might want to leave out the part in brackets, though, since that is apparently untrue. Instead, why not add that they have allegedly said they won't patch this game, since it's already "too old" (which, if true, would be one of the most boneheaded, lazy excuses for not patching a game I've ever heard - and considering the nature of this thread, I've heard my fair share of boneheaded, lazy excuses for not patching a game). Anyway, here's the description: Added it to the mix. Have you informed anyone at gog about this?

On a related note, I'd like to give a shoutout to gog's PR guy elcook. Even though it's probably not in his job description, I contacted him about some minor issues like pricing discrepancies between gog and Steam in the past and he was always very responsive and appreciative of this input and the issues were resolved within a short time.

Honestly, I find them functional enough. At least I have the option to edit them, which already places them waaaay above the functionality of user reviews (which, once they go up, can't be edited - unless you want to bother support about it). Yeah, it's utterly clunky, but it's still serviceable. The main gripe I have at the moment is how sorting works. The way this list originally worked is to have the more severe cases near the top, but with over 100 entries that's become quite impossible to manage.

No, not yet. Might as well do so since the publisher can't be arsed about this nearly half a year later.

While GOG bothers to improve the GOGmixes with proper sorting options, you might find this semi-hack useful (provided you've got an Android device and the time to do it, of course):
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/ingame_achievements/post110

Yeah-
Allow me to reiterate: one of the workarounds for instability was to specifically run the game completely offfline = does not require you to be online to play.