This is the latest game from the dev's of the universally acclaimed 80 Days and has also received very positive reviews.
Isn't curation wonderful? ._.
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GOG rejects Heaven's Vault for their store
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This is the latest game from the dev's of the universally acclaimed 80 Days and has also received very positive reviews.
Isn't curation wonderful? ._.
I don't mind curation in theory but I'm staggered as to why this was rejected when GOG accepts a hell of a lot of actual crap on their store...
I'm surprised that GOG's (still) making this rookie mistake, and I'm surprised we haven't heard from more devs getting rejected from Epic's store for equally nonsensical reasons.
No, I think most people would observe this from the other way around.
Pretty crazy. GoG what are you doing?
Hahaha. Why am I not surprised that we have the curation brigade in here defending this?
Hahaha. Why am I not surprised that we have the curation brigade in here defending this?
That's why I like Steam the most. There is no perfect solution, but no curration is certainly better than great games being rejected.
Because the opening remark is using this as a shot on curation.... As if this getting rejected invalidates the entire theory?
Yes. Because curation means someone choosing for you. Everytime. There's no single curation that won't avoid that kind of situation.
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I, too, like the idea of alt right nazis and other racists being allowed to sell their shitty propaganda to the masses
So, curation sucks. I'm an adult, I can decide by myself if a product is worthy of my money or not.
Dude you literally crafted your post to get the reactions you're getting.
"A good game isn't on a store. Hooray?"
Curation is good until a good game gets rejected and shit games still slip through the cracks. While GOG is well within their rights to do this, the flaws of doing it are very apparent.
It's a shame, too. I really like GOG, but I don't think their curation has really accomplished much here.
Yes, the game looked "too much like a mobile game". One of the best puzzle games by one of the most acclamed devs on the genre rejected over that BS.
So much this. Curation is literally the devil and should be destroyed.
Off the top of my head, the Postal games and pretty much all of the Leisure Suit Larry games
And that's how Steam ends up riddled with garbage left and right
I mean no one forces me to buy that shit, right?
Enjoy your curration on other platforms then.
I think the person was speaking of that the devs initially didn't reply to their tweet but instead liked a reply from another user, instead of directly replying. How I understood it at least.
This is how Steam ends up with games by Nazi sympathizers (if not outright neonazis)
guess it's bad to curate Nazis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Garbage that doesn't get featured on the front page. You find garbage if you search for garbage. I can ignore the garbage games. Heck, I can report them. But when a game is curated, that means someone is choosing for me to ignore it. In some case, I agree. In others, I wouldn't.
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It's fine if you feel that way and I'm guessing I won't likely be able to change your mind if that's how you feel about curation. Nonetheless, if that's indeed the case and where your priorities lie, I better never hear you say you care one iota about developers in that case because whatever your feelings in curation, being excluded from storefronts like this certainly doesn't do devs like in this case Inkle Studios any favors or benefit them in any way, having less options to sell their game due to said curation. It's definitely not a developer-first stance in that kinda way, which is part of the reason I personally can't get behind it and if others feel differently, so be it, those are your feelings and you have every right to them, but nonetheless in that particular case I better not hear you pretending you care about developers at all somewhere else because this is the type of thing that certainly doesn't do devs any favors, having their games excluded from storefronts for arbitrary and unclear reasons, that's for sure.
Again so what though?
Like it;s one thing to criticize this game being excluded... it's another to say and that's why all curation is bad.
Steam makes you play those? Shit I never even hear about them unless it's pointed out here. Then I just report and keep it moving.
How many of them also think Steam is a monopoly, which if that was true, would mean a similar situation on Steam could kill a small studio.
You first post was "This getting rejected means the entire process of curation is invalidated".
I say yes. Feel free to read my previous replies for more insights.
So that's bad unless you want other people deciding what you get to play on your client of choice.
GoG makes mistakes. *Shrug*
I still prefer this to a store of unvetted stuff, given that on PC I always have the option to go to other sources.
I still prefer this to a store of unvetted stuff, given that on PC I always have the option to go to other sources.
To not anger Epic so they have chance to reapply in 2020, when they open applications?
Again feel free to criticize them for not putting this game on.... whatever... probably wouldn't even disagree... but like this idea that curation is as someone actually put it "Literally the devil" is absurd.
Steam doesn't have an option to report games for hate speech and the like, the only stuff you can report a game for is if it actually does illegal stuff.
I agree that the form of curation GOG and Steam used to have sucks, including with this game being rejected. I think it's going too far to say "any and all forms of curation are bad" though. It's not bad to at the very least make sure gross bigoted shit doesn't make it onto the store.
It's not bad to curate nazis at all. But curation always involves some loss like this in the end. I'm an adult, don't worry for me, I wont buy a nazi game. Because I know it sucks.
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I'll posit this, if this game was rejected on PS4 cos someone at Sony "just didn't like the look of it cos reasons" I think we'd be having a very different conversation.