I dunno about you guys, but I can't take these sales seriously at the moment. There are all these releases that have been announced: God of War, Uncharted, Mortuary Assistant, etc, etc, etc, etc. Yet, we get bombarded by all these meaningless Bethesda Sales, Polish Sales, Czechia sales, etc, etc.. Makes me not want to buy much of anything at all due to the prolonged excessive wait. How about you? Are the sales starting to get obnoxious to you?

...No? Sales have nothing to do with upcoming releases. GOG always has some sale or other going on. The upcoming games take as long as they take, sales or no sales.

GOG's #1 main problem has always been, and still remains, that it rarely acquires high quality "new" games (even if they are old games that are "new" to GOG) to put onto the GOG store.

The complaint in the OP is just another symptom of that problem.

Sales have absolutely everything to do with new releases. When a new title gets released it is initially on sale. The problem here is announcing like it’s an earth shattering event that something is coming to GOG…..then maybe a year later here it comes. It is ridiculous to make an announcement that has no bearing in the immediate future. In the meantime….the same boring bad games as usual. How can someone even get excited about a sell when it is the same schlock over and over and over again?

Nope. As I said, they're 100% unrelated. GOG has sales regardless of new games. If they had zero sales, new games would not arrive one second sooner. Sometimes, sometimes not. Irrelevant in any case. OK, this appears to be your actual complaint, and you're not the first to complain about "coming soon" having a very flexible definition of "soon," but that has nothing whatsoever to do with sales. No, because MANY MANY people complained endlessly about "if I'd known this was coming to GOG, I wouldn't have bought it on Steam".

Sounds as though you are just nitpicking semantics for the sake of nitpicking. I stand behind what I said. Sales and new releases are intimately connected. As for the people complaining they would buy something here first if they had known in advance. That’s bs too. That really only applies to new and semi new releases where there might be a year wait. These games have been out for way longer than that. I don’t know many gamers who are going to wait patiently for years upon years to play something. Most people don’t have that kind of mindset.

That may be part of his complaint, not all of it IMO.

The main gist of his complaint is that GOG does not have enough high quality games available on the GOG store, in order adequately to populate the many sales that GOG has, with compelling "new" (meaning new to GOG) titles that GOG customers can get excited about.

Variations of this exact same complaint also happen every single time when GOG has a Take 2 games sale, an UbiSoft games sale, a Bethesda games sales, etc. etc.

And the core problem is the same with those sales too.

GOG starting not to say that a game is "Coming Soon," if it is not actually coming soon in reality, that would do nothing to solve GOG's problem of acquiring high quality games far too infrequently, and therefore, GOG stopping to make misleading "Coming Soon" announcements would not actually resolve the complaint (although I still do think that GOG should stop using the words "Coming Soon," since most of the time, it uses those words very inaccurately).

Exactly the point, amigo. Thank you for stating it so well.

I have no problems with the frequent sales. Some have a more creative theme, others are plain old repeats (Bethesda sale etc.). Honestly, this has become background noise. The list of upcoming releases has grown to ~ 270 entries, give or take a few. That's a lot of pending stuff.
But many of those releases seem still so far off in future that all new "coming soon" announcements do start to feel a bit hollow to me now. GOG being more specific in their wording might help manage expectations.

Shades of the old term "vaporware."

There's only so much GOG can do to get "high quality" games here. That's just how it is. (Why wouldn't GOG want games that would sell well here?) There's just not much incentive to release on a store that usually makes a tiny fraction of the money Steam does. If you really can't wait, Steam is often your only legal option.

I agree that "Coming Soon" should have different wording. Perhaps older users like me are just used to "Soon" not necessarily actually meaning "Soon".

Also I think it's fairly plausible we'll see GoW and Uncharted release here at the start of the Winter Sale. But according to a staff member, we'll at least see them release before Q3 2024.

GOG just does not have the influx of new high quality games to justify their constant bombardment of sales.

When you see the same games, with the same discounts trotted out over and over ad nauseum, it's fatiguing in and of itself, but when combined with all the sloppiness on display (The how-do-you-do-fellow-kids levels of cringe sales pitches, the frequent typos, the bugs and their insufferably loose definition of "soon" in upcoming releases) you better believe it causes apathy and irritation.