HZD is a materpiece of storytelling and environmental exploration. I for one can't wait to get into Forbidden West.

Semi-satisfied. I wish more AAA games would find their way here but I can't say the last six months have been terrible either. Besides already mentioned titles I was happy that Ad Inifitum, Fort Solis, Sniper Contracts 2 and The Sinking City got releases.

What's frustrating to me are the abundance of high quality games that are solely/mainly SP and don't sport any intrusive DRM or such yet still won't come to GOG. Games like "The Ascent", "The Callisto Protocol", "Ori and will of the wisp", "Ready or Not", "Dying Light 2" and "Ghostwire: Tokyo". I mean, why miss out on the extra customers? I'd happily re-purchase each one!

Excellent point!
I guess, that's common for most of GOG's customers (or at the very least: for those customers, (mostly) interested in old games).

The first few years here, you spend with buying up all the old "must-have" games, that you previously thought, would have been "lost forever", due to changes in tech, etc.
As long as you're in that period, GOG is awesome.

After that first thirst is quenched, you spend some more time waiting for the "not-necessary-must-haves" to be available at an acceptable (for you) price point.
That time is less exciting than the first period, but GOG is still awesome for offering you all those (not-quite-as-shiny) treasures.

And only AFTER that point - when you purchased (almost) everything, that you ever had interest in, you grow more and more unsatisfied, because now the lack of new and exciting (for you!) releases, makes GOG seem dull and boring.

From now on, it's always the same sales, which always include the same games, which you have bought years ago already...meh.

Unfortunately, that's something, GOG has only very little influence upon - if any.

Acquiring the distributing rights for old games gets harder and harder, once "the pool 'of easy to catch prey' has been fished dry".

And acquiring the distributing rights to new (AAA) games gets hindered by GOG's main requirement (DRM-free releases).

The saddest thing about all this is: GOG can't really win.
It's like when you "fall in love" with someone.

At the beginning of "the relationship", people consider GOG to be "great" and "the best thing to happen to them, ever!" - and then (when that hot first phase of "the relationship" is over), the same people start to consider GOG as "lame" and "embarrassing", when all its (priorly thought of as "adorable") flaws and peculiarities lose their charme, and get annoying instead.

Once i watched some let's play videos of HZD and my opinion was that it's just a worse version of Fallout (with arguably a deeper story and a bigger open world). Let see:

Post apocalyptic setting - same thing
Lots of malfunctioning robots - same thing
There is a G.E.C.K. (a bit more elaborate version anyway)

And here is where it fails:

No character creator - that's a bummer
No guns - wait, what?

Sony spyware aside, no character creator i could deal with, but NO GUNS in a post apocalyptic game? that's unheard of. I prefer the idea of walking out of a bunker like a boss and showing those tribals what the old world is all about.
All in all not my type of game. Rather give Fallout another go (that i did, right after watching the game-play videos of HZD) or give Mad Max a try (never played a post apocalyptic game with car driving before, but it looks awesome).

Helldivers 2 is a popular multiplayer game that launched February 8th on Steam and PS5. Initial user opinion was very positive. On May 3rd, it was announced that users would soon be required to link their Steam accounts to a Playstation Network account. This move was widely viewed as a bait-and-switch tactic. In particular, players don't trust Sony given their track record of frequent security breaches. Steam reviews are now Mixed, with about half being negative just a couple of days after the announcement.

Well, according to this thread/post: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/helldivers_2_on_steam_now_requires_psn_account_to_play_game_removed_from_steam_in_regions_without_p/post1

the requirement for a PSN account was there from the get go:

Quote:
"When Helldivers 2 first launched on Steam, Sony's user agreement stated a PlayStation Network account was required in order to play.
Linking a PSN account was not possible at launch, however, allowing players to play the game without one.
After initial technical difficulties, developer Arrowhead eventually got around to enabling PSN accounts for the game on PC, and Sony is now mandating either that an existing account be linked or a new account be created to continue playing the game."

The only "new" development is this:

"Because PSN is operated regionally, with only select countries having their own local networks, Steam users in countries without PSN access have no means of creating a legitimate account (besides faking their location), meaning they are by default in violation of the game's terms.
As a result, the game has now been removed from Steam entirely in any country without its own PSN region."

Certainly sucks for the people affected by this decision (and I would assume a refund option is available for those who are now effectively "locked out"(?) of their game), but I fail to see why GOG users would feel affected by that:

- The game in question is not available here.
- The game in question is an online-MP-only game.

So, neither is the game here, nor was there ever a chance for it to come here...shrug.

That does not mean, that other: "non-online-MP-games" made by Sony, can''t still get released here.

It's just another attempt to raise a "storm in a teacup" on the GOG forum.

Why would GoG have ANY control over the questions:

1. If good games are published

2. If good games are published on GoG ?

They literally can only grab whatever chance they get.

Since I'm into roleplaying games, GoG is optimal for me. I would assume other genres may be less complete.

My understanding is that since GOG are the final arbiters of games being published/released onto the store, they ultimately aren't having to "grab every game they can".

Are you... seriously trying to say that GOG doesn't have control over what GOG sells? How is... urgh... I think my brain just divided by zero.

Jfc they literally spent over a year trying to bring Alpha Protocol here, because they *wanted* to

When we talk nuances, they have control over both up to a certain extent. An extent we know is limited by the number of opportunities from AA and AAA devpubs because their and their investors' skepticism. But to say they have zero control over what they have in their store is quite erroneous.

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I can at least say for the JRPG side that I'm still disappointed in what they have. It's even a miracle we have Nihon Falcom, CH/IF, Sega's Yakuza series, etc. here, but there's a lot left to be desired. There's the remaining catalogue that's missing here from their current partner publishers from the Completionists' List of Missing Games from GOG Series:

- Capcom - everything

- DANGEN - Hunt the Night, Abomi Nation, Disc Creatures, etc.

- Ghostlight - Omega Quintet, Lost Dimiension, Mugen Souls series, etc.

- NISA - Disgaea series, Rhapsody series, Labyrinth of series, Langrisser series, Yomawari, Kamiwaza, ZHP, Makai Kingdom, Monark, Soul Nomad, Legend of Legacy HD Remastered, Crymachina, Phantom Brave, etc.

- Playism - Phantom Rose 2, One Way Heroics, Artifact Adventure series, LiEat, Helen's Mysterious Castle, The Use of Life, Potato Flowers in Full Bloom, etc.

- Sega - everything

- Toby Fox - Deltarune series

- Ubisoft - Child of Light

- XSEED - No More Heroes series, Rune Factory series, Fate series, Touhou series, Senran Kagura series, Sakuna, Cuisineer, Silent Hope, Loop8, etc.

- Zeboys/Shadow Layer - Cthulhu Saves the World, This Way Madness Lies, Breath of Death VII

If GOG isn't doing it by now, they should be curating devpubs themselves rather than the games. And once devpubs are greenlit, they can have a blank cheque to publish anything even if some of them are universally panned games. Because I'd rather have their whole catalogue on here than this seemingly random limited selection of somewhat good titles.

Then there's the matter of other notable indie JRPGs that should be on here, but aren't:

- Sea of Stars, WitchSpring R, Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children, Grey Heritage, Shadows of Adam, The Amber Throne, Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, For a Vast Future, Cassette Beasts, Omori, etc.

Dave the Diver seems like a no brainer here.

Are old AAA games hard to get here moreso because of the DRM-free requirement or because there's just not much money to be made (at least not enough to interest AAA publishers) bringing them here? EA brought various old C&C games (and old EA games that used to be exclusive to GOG) to Steam a few weeks back, but not to GOG, and obviously those can be easily pirated.

Just noticed, theres a new section in the the store's front page with a new "New Releases" category!
Not needed to scroll to the end of the page to see the new releases anymore.

They're really listening to feedback on forums.
Thanks Front End team. :)

Sure, that is a great feature. That also assumes I visit the normal front page. (I use Blast from the Past).

But hey, if that's an actual chronological itemized list that covers the last quarter of releases, I'll take it.