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Full transparency over rejection.
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dnovraD So GOG rejects games. That's something many understand and accept. What many don't understand and accept, is the reasoning behind it, an area where GOG turns frustratingly opaque.
Formally, this is a demand for Glasnost, seeing as GOG is no longer under the rule of the CCCP, nor was it ever. All that is asked, is that when a game is rejected, it be catalogued somewhere within the site on a publicly available database, with voting to basically show that the decision was bad and the one who made it should feel bad.
GOG is GLOBAL. Not everyone is interested in grand strategy games that look about as lively as grandma's knitting sessions. Why those are accepted over games with clearly higher interest outside of the secret game picking council.
When a publisher says no, that's one thing, but when an indie approaches the site with open arms, and then GOG says no, that's...not nice. Especially if said game has over 1000 votes on the community wishlist.
eastc I'd just like a list of games that were rejected and reason. Doesn't have to be terribly in detail but some clarity for the gamers would be nice.
fridgeband I'm going to trust gog on this and carefully assume it's for some kind of good reason unless someone can convince me otherwise.
Vainamoinen GOG seems to have a reputation for being jackasses already. No need to bring that rep up to "greatest jackasses in the industry". I'm so not voting on this.
Gengar78 Oh boy. Looks like all the grand strategy players aren't voting for this now. ;)
budejovice I would hate to be a dev and come here and see the reason I wasn't accepted is because my game is shit and I am a total jackass. Not voting. Not presuming I know more about game distribution than than effing GOG.
MacArthur Not going to vote this wish nor any other of that style. The reason being that it's totally not reasonnable, because there are plenty of reasons why a game can be rejected and they won't communicate them in public : not selling enough in general, not selling enough for the particular GOG audience (ie : not old school enough), there are legal reasons, thare are bisness reasons (they want a certain price point because they have that kind of price point for that kind of product and don't want to have to renegociate everything with their other partners,...)
====> It's not our bisness to put our noses into that.
skeletonbow Yeah, I can see GOG getting right on that. Even right now they're allocating a large number of developers to write new code for the website, create new databases so that people can actively lynch mob them for every single game they reject for any reason whatsoever. </sarcasm>
It's nice wishful thinking, but it's not going to happen.
micktiegs_8 No. If this is accepted I will smack you silly. I made a public thread about the very same thing last year and EVERYONE took a great big fucking dump on the suggestion. If people suddenly change their mind about it now, then fuck you and them.
Habanerose I ironically would even be fine with just noting only the games that got rejected (as some people would dismiss any "no" answer regardless how valid GOG's overall point might be, because "Muh game, Me want it now"... and that's not even taking into consideration possible NDAs for the bigger publishers). Atleast this way, with the list being public (with possible wishlist links), people could try to persuade GOG / Rights Owners that their rejection may have been too early / eager (prime example: Huniepop, initially rejected, but still came here due to enough customer demand).
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