In another thread you asked for people's thought on delistings, then you complained about it when people(myself you replied to) gave responses that went against your stances. This indicates you do not want to have a discussion on the topic but want to create a narrative around your position that GOG is not doing well.

I noticed something which concerned me somewhat. After posting about it I saw others (including yourself) acting like "this is fine". Overly worrying isn't good, but I don't think ignoring somewhat concerning trends is a good idea either, hence my reaction. Since the other user asked for info/proof, i've decided to see if my concerns were valid (as I feel) or not...hence the list.

Speaking of, i've completed the 2023 list(it wouldn't post for some reason so I made it into a picture attachment). If my list is complete then only 15 titles in 2023 were delisted compared to 68 in 2024.

You are ignoring though that, as many have stated, this is normal for digital goods as contracts can expire or change hands which result in a delisting. On Steam there are curators that generate extensive lists of games getting removed almost daily but Steam is doing fine. Someone posted that a smaller store had to delist an entire publisher catalog but they are still around.

It's just the new normal with going with digital distribution, I don6like it myself but it doesn't mean that a company is going under, it's just more visibly demonstrates that publishers can pull or just not renew business contracts which happens quite frequently in modern business and industry.

I'm not ignoring it, I just feel differently. I'd like to be wrong and perhaps I am...still, I am troubled somewhat.
(I mean, 15 games delisted in 2023 vs 68 this year? Gog's catalog didn't grow 3-4 times it's size in one year)

Again, you are leaving out context as many of those delistings happened on all stores not just GOG, many of the games the license to publish were expiring with some due to the license holder losing the license to sell the games affecting GOG, Steam, Epic, and so on.

Some games were also delisted as a remaster was being released so GOG wasn't losing a game as it being replaced (which a publisher has every right to do), and again this also affected Steam and other stores. Many refer to 2024 as the year of remaster with the number of re-releases and delistings that were done.

For gog it's a sizable number though. Steam and Epic can likely handle the financial hit better, hence part of my concern.

This doesn't mean that GOG is on life support. Just recently GOG got the original PC ports of the Resident Evil trilogy and before that they put money and development into the return of Alpha Protocol with no cut content. These required money and work on there part.

If they were not doing well I doubt these contracts to bring back these games would have gone through.

I wasn't trying to imply that sort of thing. I just feel it's cause for a bit of concern....no more, no less.

Some comments

January
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_cinemaware_titles

>> I guess this is because of an exclusiv contract with zoom

February
https://www.gog.com/forum/hellish_quart/delisting_hellish_quart

>> I guess it will be back after the e.a.

June
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_plane_mechanic_simulator_1

>> it seem this games never leave the e.a., so I guess in this case the delisting is fine

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_the_suffering_and_the_suffering_ties_that_bind
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_4_games_from_adult_swim

>> should we say *thank you* to WB?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_27_titles_from_meridian4

>> a lot of games (inkl. 2 bundles!) and some of then not really important, but that's a matter of taste

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_jydge_on_october_24th_2024

>> should be back in a while, after changing the title

Yeah, there a some games left and that's a pity, but the shop is growing, that's a fact. And who knoes, maybe some of them are back in some month/years. Stay positive. :-)

I shall try :)