GOG.com

[KeighnMcDeath]

Lust from beyond eh? Will it suck as bad as Succubus or Agony?

 

[Anthedon]

suck Succubus

I see what you did there.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

BUY THIS GAME HUMAN.

IT HAS GAMEPLAY.

Play Cyb-uh-punk, Game-BOY. It smokes your cred in the pushy. VR sucky fucky. Luv you long time.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Agony + Agony UNRATED
$14.99

Agony Soundtrack
$3.99

Man, that's a lot of fluff for the Succubus game.

 

[Melcar]

Imaging buying a soundtrack.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Ok, BAD NEWS!

Mary Skelter 2 available (just like Steam edition)
Limited time discount:
34.99
-15%
29.74

Skelter GOG THREAD
Main Gog entry
Lol, so Mary 2 includes a full remake of 1 but minus whatever minigames and sexy content. Ridiculous.
STEAM entry & Reviews
It isn't just the censoring but other issues users mention including crashing.

Ghostlght, Idea Factory..... this realy is Mary Skelter's Nightmare.... a fucked up release.

Ah well.....

tbh.... This trailer looks a little bit like ass

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

Apparently GOG no longer have the budget to write newsposts:

I feel that this is very much indicative of the overall trend we're seeing on gog and extends to every aspect of the site. It smells of don't-give-a-shit-anymore attitude.

Support is now handled by a nonfunctional chatbot.

Remember a few months ago when we got the headline "GOG is losing money and refocusing on ‘handpicked selection of games™’"? The dev of Selaco can't even get in touch with anyone there and posted this on the gog forum just now:

Still nothing.

I must admit that I'm completely discouraged by this point. A 3 month wait is unacceptable and given how the automated email states that, after 2 weeks of not hearing anything, it is safe to assume that they (GOG) decided to 'pass on the game'. Fast-forward to 3 months later and we got nothing.

I've heard from other developers that the 2 week period is completely inaccurate and it baffles me that this has not been addressed / corrected on their end. An automated email is easy to adjust. Or, a simple ''Hey, sorry that's its taking so long, we will get back to you asap'' after a lengthy waiting period would have been nice, just something to inform developers that they are not being ignored, but we get absolutely nothing from GOG. No update, no notice about traffic being heavier than expected, no estimate that is even remotely accurate. We are completely left in the dark not knowing if we should continue waiting or if they declined our game and that it's game over.

I know that we are in a pandemic, I know that many indie developers are submitting their titles, but for god sake GOG it has not been just a couple of weeks. It has been months!

In a previous post I said that I would not re-submit Selaco because I don't want to flood them any further knowing how busy they are, but I've become increasingly impatient with this non-sense and decided to re-submit anyway.

If I get nothing within a month I'm pulling the plug. This forum thread has been amazing but the way we are being left in the dark is far too frustrating and makes me hesitant to work together with them.

Anyone who has been paying attention should've seen this coming a mile away...

To tell you the truth: At this point I don't think that the extreme levels of decline we're seeing on gog can really be explained by staff being overburdened or just plain incompetence any more. It's no secret that gog is not a big money maker - often just barely breaking even in their yearly results. I can't imagine shareholders being overly happy with gog's performance. At this point, I'm starting to think that instilling a sense of defeatism in their own userbase is the goal. They want to kill the place, but they don't want to be seen as throwing the towel (that is: CDP doesn't want to deal with the bad optics of closing their shop and fucking thousands of people out of their libraries, like Playism did), so they instead inflict a death by 1000 cuts to make people gradually believe that gog closing its doors was an inevitability.

 

[Melcar]

Maybe if they add more anime boobies and kawaii stuffies.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I gotta start DLing my library.... ugh!

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

Apparently GOG no longer have the budget to write newsposts:

I feel that this is very much indicative of the overall trend we're seeing on gog and extends to every aspect of the site. It smells of don't-give-a-shit-anymore attitude.

Support is now handled by a nonfunctional chatbot.

Remember a few months ago when we got the headline "GOG is losing money and refocusing on ‘handpicked selection of games™’"? The dev of Selaco can't even get in touch with anyone there and posted this on the gog forum just now:

Still nothing.

I must admit that I'm completely discouraged by this point. A 3 month wait is unacceptable and given how the automated email states that, after 2 weeks of not hearing anything, it is safe to assume that they (GOG) decided to 'pass on the game'. Fast-forward to 3 months later and we got nothing.

I've heard from other developers that the 2 week period is completely inaccurate and it baffles me that this has not been addressed / corrected on their end. An automated email is easy to adjust. Or, a simple ''Hey, sorry that's its taking so long, we will get back to you asap'' after a lengthy waiting period would have been nice, just something to inform developers that they are not being ignored, but we get absolutely nothing from GOG. No update, no notice about traffic being heavier than expected, no estimate that is even remotely accurate. We are completely left in the dark not knowing if we should continue waiting or if they declined our game and that it's game over.

I know that we are in a pandemic, I know that many indie developers are submitting their titles, but for god sake GOG it has not been just a couple of weeks. It has been months!

In a previous post I said that I would not re-submit Selaco because I don't want to flood them any further knowing how busy they are, but I've become increasingly impatient with this non-sense and decided to re-submit anyway.

If I get nothing within a month I'm pulling the plug. This forum thread has been amazing but the way we are being left in the dark is far too frustrating and makes me hesitant to work together with them.

Anyone who has been paying attention should've seen this coming a mile away...

To tell you the truth: At this point I don't think that the extreme levels of decline we're seeing on gog can really be explained by staff being overburdened or just plain incompetence any more. It's no secret that gog is not a big money maker - often just barely breaking even in their yearly results. I can't imagine shareholders being overly happy with gog's performance. At this point, I'm starting to think that instilling a sense of defeatism in their own userbase is the goal. They want to kill the place, but they don't want to be seen as throwing the towel (that is: CDP doesn't want to deal with the bad optics of closing their shop and fucking thousands of people out of their libraries, like Playism did), so they instead inflict a death by 1000 cuts to make people gradually believe that gog closing its doors was an inevitability.

I don't know how to say 'get woke, go broke' in Polish, but I'd suggest that the gog staff become acquainted with the term. They could be fixing shit that's wrong with Galaxy, ditching bullshit inclusive curation, and opening up their release charts for more AAA classics, but instead we seem to be getting nothing but tranny toon sims and indie bargain bin trash. Gog's current state reminds me of the old saying, 'the car's on the road, but there doesn't seem to be anyone behind the wheel.'

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

STEAM!


GOG!

 

[Gaznak]

GOG is going to ruin, obviously. And for a quite long time already.

'Reinventing' the saying, Fools must suffer gladly.

 

[lightbane]

Welp, I better start downloading everything and saving my games and such.
I guess that means Steam won the competition by default once/if Goes does go down, right?

 

[Bad Sector]

They could be fixing shit that's wrong with Galaxy

IMO they should ditch Galaxy completely and resurrect the old GOG Downloader and make it so that you can set it to automatically update game or notify you on updates. The other stuff they tried to do were a PR-driven nonsense and waste of money.

ditching bullshit inclusive curation, and opening up their release charts for more AAA classics, but instead we seem to be getting nothing but tranny toon sims and indie bargain bin trash

I do not think it is up to them for the AAA stuff, i'm certain if they could they'd release more of them but it is the publishers that do seem to have barely an interest on anything aside from Steam (or their own storefront, if they have one). For curation, any human element will introduce biases, so IMO they should just put up some "requirements" for being released on GOG (e.g. being DRM-free, have manuals or whatever else non-subjective) and let it up in the store but not show up in the front page and instead only in a special "wild west" section of the store until it gains enough (and high enough) ratings from people who have bought the game. At that point have someone do a manual review to ensure it isn't someone gaming the system and mark it for inclusion in the store proper.

EDIT: in unrelated news, it seems like they finally improved the catalog search. It still is super-basic compared to what it could be (it really needs rating and wishlisted-only filters) but better than the old one.

 

[Grauken]

Ok, BAD NEWS!

Mary Skelter 2 available (just like Steam edition)
Limited time discount:
34.99
-15%
29.74

Skelter GOG THREAD
Main Gog entry
Lol, so Mary 2 includes a full remake of 1 but minus whatever minigames and sexy content. Ridiculous.
STEAM entry & Reviews
It isn't just the censoring but other issues users mention including crashing.

Ghostlght, Idea Factory..... this realy is Mary Skelter's Nightmare.... a fucked up release.

Ah well.....

Shame, I enjoyed the first for what it was, but this sounds like a terrible port all around

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Ok, BAD NEWS!

Mary Skelter 2 available (just like Steam edition)
Limited time discount:
34.99
-15%
29.74

Skelter GOG THREAD
Main Gog entry
Lol, so Mary 2 includes a full remake of 1 but minus whatever minigames and sexy content. Ridiculous.
STEAM entry & Reviews
It isn't just the censoring but other issues users mention including crashing.

Ghostlght, Idea Factory..... this realy is Mary Skelter's Nightmare.... a fucked up release.

Ah well.....

tbh.... This trailer looks a little bit like ass

Store link is dead, so I guess they pulled it?

 

[FreshCorpse]

Haven't looked in detail at CDPR's financials statements (will if I find time) but reading around the topic suggests the financial problems seem to be isolated to the GOG division which almost certainly means they will restructure it and not shutter it. CDPR as a whole is still profitable and profitable businesses don't just shutter unprofitable divisions without first doing a lot of work to try to fix them.

I also wouldn't bother pre-downloading all your GOG games - they are already widely pirated and those torrents will probably outlive you.

The question is though: how the do manage to lose money running a digital goods store? You just charge n% (and n is usually high: 20-30%) of every game and all you have to do is provide a website that people can browse, buy and download their games from. It really should be a fantastically high margin business and Gabe Newell is very rich now and doesn't have to do any crunch to release new games. My guess is that staff costs (especially software development for stuff like Galaxy) have grown out of control.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Ok, BAD NEWS!

Mary Skelter 2 available (just like Steam edition)
Limited time discount:
34.99
-15%
29.74

Skelter GOG THREAD
Main Gog entry
STEAM entry & Reviews

Store link is dead, so I guess they pulled it?

Should be fixed now. GOG has a habit of changing the page address at times.

 

[Baron Dupek]

https://af.gog.com/game/elasto_mania?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/game/elasto_mania_ii?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/game/action_supercross?as=1649904300

 

[Strig]

I don't know how to say 'get woke, go broke' in Polish,

Zostań lewakiem, a obejdziesz się smakiem.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

How is that in Klingon?

'ach yIghoSDI' Maybe?

'ach yIghoSDI' Hmmmm...

 

[ValeVelKal]

GOG.com is announced as about to die every single year. It lost some money in Q1-Q3 2021, though probably none for the whole of 2021. CDRP is filthy rich, with no debt and a huge cash reserve, there is no way they get rid of an asset as strategic as GOG.com.

To tell you the truth: At this point I don't think that the extreme levels of decline we're seeing on gog can really be explained by staff being overburdened or just plain incompetence any more. It's no secret that gog is not a big money maker - often just barely breaking even in their yearly results. I can't imagine shareholders being overly happy with gog's performance. At this point, I'm starting to think that instilling a sense of defeatism in their own userbase is the goal. They want to kill the place, but they don't want to be seen as throwing the towel (that is: CDP doesn't want to deal with the bad optics of closing their shop and fucking thousands of people out of their libraries, like Playism did), so they instead inflict a death by 1000 cuts to make people gradually believe that gog closing its doors was an inevitability.

This comment can only come from someone with absolutely no idea about how the market works. GOG.com has a huge strategic value :
1. for CDPR when it talks to Steam and other platforms ("we don't need you, we can be an exclusive on one of your competitors, in addition to our own platform"),

2. even more, for anyone who wants to enter / enhance their position on the computer video game market - and there are quite a few indeed that would be interested (starting with all of the GAFAM except Facebook, you can even add Netflix is trying to get into the video game market).

They can sell their GOG.com branch anytime, much more so than 3 years ago when Amazon, Netflix and Apple did not have such a strong "video game strategy", so why would they sabotage it ?

If you remove the cash that the companies have, GOG.com is worth more than the developer part of CDProjekt.

Plus, the reason GOG.com is not profitable is that they invested massively in Bizdev in 2021 (if you read the financial report between the lines). They can, almost at any time, reduce that investment and return to profit.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Are you suggesting we buy JAST weekend products from GOG? (Each gog link goes to that article) I'm considering taking one for the team and buying Skeltor 2. Dunno.... I think I've bought too much already. I can't keep gog afloat solo. My hobo cash is dwindling.

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

Cope

Sure thing, buddy! Gog is a gold mine waiting to happen!

PS: Fucking lol at the "We don't need you, we can release on our own platform!"-part. We saw how exceedingly well that one panned out for them when they made Thronebreaker a gog-exclusive.

 

[Infinitron]

Thronebreaker was never going to be a "platform seller" and they were delusional to think so. But CD Projekt could likely have earned more $$$ in total if they'd made Cyberpunk 2077 a GOG-exclusive for a few months. I guess it was deemed too risky.