Chill out. Simply being puzzled is not being "triggered". I swear, people these days have zero capacity to cope with anything other than total, enthusiastic agreement with everything they say. You're free to request the feature, I'm free to not see the point of it and enquire. I have no problem with such a feature being introduced, but I can think of a ton of other features, fixes etc. far more useful that I'd like to take precedence.

Twenty years ago, I used to play one of those browser-based games that were immensely popular at that time. It was in a Sci-fi setting; you had to build ships and send out fleets to conquer neighboring star systems which were controlled by other players.

People got quite mad and salty after such a raid and often deleted their accounts in a reflex. The next day they had calmed down and ruefully asked the admin to restore everything. That meant a whole heck of work for this person because it basically was a partial database reset.

The game's admin first added more warning messages, then double checkboxes to confirm their intent.
But people kept "accidentally" deleting their accounts. Either in blind rage or because they were too drunk or too high to fully understand the consequences.

In the end, there was a whole sub-game of clicking two dozen checkboxes scattered across the whole page. But it was never enough. The admin had to make the tough decision that there wouldn't be any more account restorations no matter what.

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GOG support has enough problems in my opinion. And they certainly don't need one more.
The bottom line is that I (as well as many others) don't want this feature.

I don't care if people agree with me or not, I actually expected most of the people on the GOG forum to disagree with me regardless of what I post (it's the nature of this forum). The problem I have is when people are so stuck in their ways that they absolutely refuse to think outside the box, or welcome any kind of positive change for users. It's obnoxious.

Here's a hint: perhaps they disagree with you because they don't see what you're selling as "positive". And perhaps you're the one being obnoxious.

I can imagine that cases like that may happen or have happened to many people, but I'm totally calm and I don't want to know that I own these two games. If not as an automated procedure, at least they could allow it after communicating with support.

Since we can not delete games, does anyone know if they finally "fixed" the hide games option to not show update notifications?
Because it would be nice not to get notifications if something is hidden.

Because users (some sober, some drunk) would then delete games from their accounts?

And because some of them would simply forget that they themselves deleted these games and then blame GOG for "removing paid content" from their accounts?

And (some of the) users who do remember, that they did delete these games?
Would then inevitably contact GOG, demanding these games (which they have bought at some point) to be re-added to their accounts again, as soon as they have second thoughts about them.

Enough reasons?

Hiding games is plenty, deleting is dangerous and paints malicious targets.

Exactly. This has been debated so many times - it's not worth making support worse for everyone by deluging it with the inevitable "I want to delete this game" followed by "Oh noez, I asked you to delete a game but it wasn't me/I didn't mean it/GoG has stolen my games despite me literally telling them to do it; give them back before I tell everyone on reddit/discord/some other echo chamber how terrible you all are"

Plus, they would have to keep records of original payment paths in case someone buys on grey market, deletes and reinstates, breaking the link with the otiginal stolen credit card.

Guys, you do realize up until a few years ago that Support was actively taking in requests to delete games from libraries, right? And guess what? Support was still overwhelmed anyway.

Trust me - the % of people requesting games to be be revived back into their libraries outweights the numbers of people who want to remove demos, bad free giveaway games, etc. from their libraries.

If you all think it's more trouble than it's worth, then GOG simply does not have to honour reviving games back. It's that simple.

Of course, there's the hidden side to all of this that people shouldn't be sharing their GOG accounts with others in the first place. So the idea that people can magically lose their account and have all their games wiped away is ridiculously unlikely. Again, this can be mitigated with 2FA + re-enter password again per game deleted and a limit to how many games can be deleted per day.

Honestly, I think you're aiming for the wrong solution. GOG lets you mark an item as hidden, which makes it disappear from your library, and that already seems the feature you're looking for. You say it doesn't work for you when using launchers because they don't recognize this hidden tag... so you're asking GOG to implement another way to make items disappear from your library.

If the issue is that launchers don't recognize hidden items, then the solution should be for them to recognize which items are hidden, shouldn't it?
I'm not sure why they ignore the hidden tag, so I don't know if it's GOG or the launchers to blame, but that's where the fix should be.

It's really not such a big deal. We are adults, not some minors playing pubg. We should be allowed to ask from support, at least (if not as an automated procedure), for them to delete unwanted games in our libraries. Then we would accept the consequence of not owning that/those game(s) anymore. And if (IF) there's a change of mind, that/those game(s) should be purchased anew.

I seriously don't get it.

Why would you want to delete a game? What did it ever do to you to deserve that?

Games are people too!

I'm 100% against allowing users to delete games, improving the already existing tools for the library and adding more filters, sure, but deleting games? yeah no

They could in theory put in a pseudo delete for users. The games are inaccessible (not listed) for the user, but they are otherwise still linked to the account on the backend and can be restored by staff in such circumstances.

So it's basically a "permanent hide" for the user.

You could even give the user access to restore them buried deep in the settings. The chief idea though is that except for this restore list, the game appears completely removed from the user's account.