Exactly. It's almost as bad as gamejolt.

gamejolt what is that?
gamejam ? when they make an utter crap in 24h alone and call it a game ?:O

1. Gamejolt is basically itch, but with a bent towards studios that had their start during the flash game boom, I'm not even sure how relevant they are anymore, because I haven't logged in in at least a year. I DID find some decent indie strategy games, if you don't mind archaic art/graphic design.

2. Bingo. That's exactly what a game jam is, and itch clogs their new release category with almost ALL of them.

tbh, i think tis is more for programmers. But, indeed, they tend to be precisely what leads to itch's clutter issues. Sites like itch, and even gog and steam, need ways to reject certain categories and games. Maybe i don't like paradox and would like to find all games without dlc or something?

Of course, what they do at any one time is subject to change and perhaps listening to criticism and taking real world results into consideration. And culture can take a while to change ... nothing like a dose of reality to further that.

Maybe they learnt that the hard way.

I don't doubt they are normally independent, but GOG was quite stagnant in the last few months before CP2077 was released. So one could speculate about that. Might be something as simple as GOG staff helping out as the deadline loomed, especially based o the skills some might have ... or even if it was just in a testing capacity. Then the costs of employment may have been diverted to propping up CDPR rather than GOG for a while. Or maybe GOG have a minimal staff, that is helped out regularly by CDPR employees (some bonus or overtime pay), but that dropped off because work on CP2077 became too demanding.

All conjecture and speculation of course.
But things clearly weren't right with GOG for a few months near the end of 2020, as many postings in the forum show.

Not a suspicion so much as a possibility if you want to speculate.

I highly recommend watching Noclip's documentary on GOG (and the rest of the series, which covers the rest of CD Projekt). It shows that there are a lot of issues and complexities that sometimes make it difficult to get certain games on here.

Even when the devs of a game are begging gog to take it?

Take No Clip with a pinch of salt, it's part promo, part info part 'everything is perfect'

good production of course though!

So, question. Are you under any sort of NDA in regards to your former position? Because I would say you'd be in one of the more unique categories of people who could actually shed some light on the inner workings, especially since Judas doesn't really hang out anymore.

I have no idea what could and could not be said other than I wanted to run a project that outlined the process to the public but alas many concepts lost in a sea of waves.


But I will say that there's no ill intent behind rejections

Fair enough.

Okay. But hypothetically, let's imagine I'm a German.

And you're asking me to not only juggle proficiency in three languages, (German, English and obviously Polish), but to also move (Upwards of 300 km) to a country with an inferior social support system, far less freedoms, and leadership that could at best be described as problematic...over enjoying life and wages in Germany.

How exactly do I tell someone to "Go jump though the eye of a needle into a particularly unpleasant lake", in either tongue?

No one is in charge here!

It is a total anarchy! A game vetting anarchy!!! Only the strongest will survive!