Thanks for citing some specific examples. This was another thing I wanted to mention, but it would have just been second-hand hearsay that I couldn't remember the sources of, so I decided against it. It's just another matter that muddies the waters, as anecdotal tales like these tend to stick in the mind much more readily than the cumulative successes. Their authenticity and sincerity are equally hard to validate, so I often end up having to ignore how bad they appear, and just presume that (hopefully) these are infrequent fringe cases that get exaggerated a little in their retelling, or are just an unfortunate consequence of limited resources.

No doubt you are right and GOG aren't perfect, and the blame lies with them sometimes, for whatever reason. Many of us suspect GOG cannot keep up with things, so I guess things get delayed and perhaps even forgotten etc. There are only so many hours in a day and so many employees etc, and I certainly get the impression they have been cutting costs etc.

In reality there could be a number of reasons for why things happen the way they do, and sometimes it could even be reputation based. Those working for game companies often float around and do their own startups etc, and as we know a good number of games get abandoned etc at GOG, so I wouldn't be surprised if GOG had an ignore list.

I wouldn't do much of what GOG would have to do, if you paid me. Curation and testing would be a pain in the butt, as would dealing with many of the folk they have to deal with. GOG would be the party making most of the compromises.

GOG, unlike Steam, would be between a rock and a hard place a lot of the time I reckon.

I do agree with the topic title

GoG don't make it easy

if you are used to the endless offers on steam, then it must be very hard to adapt to a store such as GoG. Especially if you never even really tried to understand what GoG is all about.

I myself stopped entirely with Steam for a couple of months now and even I while i know what i was doing and with me still using GoG and Epic and Xbox and EA and Ubisoft and Blizzard and Itch even now i find myself with moments, for example when i look at new game releases, that i say damn! i don't have access to those titles.

Everything is so steam based on the PC, like others mentioned already countless times, that you sometimes feel like being part of an ecosystem that is anything but democratic or free market based.

Another example is, at the moment i'm looking to upgrade my system. I already managed to compile a list on my favorite hardware vendor site. With the hardware choices I made i'm atm eligible for 3 steam vouchers at a total worth of 110 euro's! (of course if i finalize the purchase list) but I actually perceive all those nice vouchers as negative votes which might lead to me considering other hardware purchases.

But okay, before this ends in some STeam rant, which is way to easy

GoG has a nice list of games on the offer, and while they don't add huge piles of 'most wanted' games on a regular basis i do think that leaving steam(oops) okay, let me retry I do think that the way GoG operates is beneficial to us as humans