Posted June 25, 2012

TheEnigmaticT
GOG Marketer Guy
GOG.com Team
Registered: Nov 2010
From Poland

TheEnigmaticT
GOG Marketer Guy
GOG.com Team
Registered: Nov 2010
From Poland
Posted June 25, 2012

I mean - mods only looked up wishlists in like first week? Now we have "forever in progress" wishes and nothing new being implemented on the site. New games are being released without any connection to the wishlist at all - some games have barely 100 votes and are being released before games with thousands of votes (from the same publisher!)
1. What we ask publishers for
2. What order we release things in
3. Gauging interest in various website features.
Things take time as well. If we see a game that's really popular on the wishlist--perhaps because no one can figure out how to get it working on modern Windows operating systems--we have to figure out how to get that working. That's not easy, and that takes a lot of time and effort. Likewise, rolling out new site features isn't something that can be done quickly. Some of those site feature requests are impossible to complete by their very nature. "More Win7 Compatible Games" is guaranteed eternal process. "Continue to add more good *old* games" is likewise something that we do more of every week. How would we mark those as "completed"?
Other wishlist items are really hard to do. Sign LucasArts? We'd love to. We've been trying to do that since GOG.com launched. We make slow progress every year, but it's anyone's guess where we are now compared to the finish line. Add Linux versions of games? I've already spoken elsewhere about how that's really hard to do, and how we're evaluating whether it will make us money or not. Regardless of whether it's doable or not, it is a gigantic mountain of work, and it's a project that won't happen quickly. Patience is key when you're dealing with a company that's made of many different moving parts. We'll try to answer every last wishlist item, but it's not gonna happen overnight.

TheEnigmaticT
GOG Marketer Guy
GOG.com Team
Registered: Nov 2010
From Poland

TheEnigmaticT
GOG Marketer Guy
GOG.com Team
Registered: Nov 2010
From Poland
Posted June 25, 2012


TheEnigmaticT
GOG Marketer Guy
GOG.com Team
Registered: Nov 2010
From Poland

TheEnigmaticT
GOG Marketer Guy
GOG.com Team
Registered: Nov 2010
From Poland
Posted June 29, 2012

Mind = blown :-)