Hexchild: I've been an avid gamer for ~35 years, I've watched the decline of the gaming industry in the last decade, and I too don't want to see GOG crash and burn. I want to see them grow into a powerful, ethical company that stands apart as a sore thumb to other companies and as an example of how they could have conducted their business.
You know who else doesn't want to see GOG crash and burn? GOG. If they actually end up in financial trouble, they'll do what they can to climb out of it. If they've got reasonably good leadership, they'll act long before that can even happen. I can only hope they'll learn the right lessons from the backlash and actually start treating their customers as more than just mindless consumers.
Same here, got my load of what gaming turned into during these years, and well GOG is my last stronghold when it comes to drm-free and DRM, albeit they are definitely doing their worst as of late.
Hexchild: I doubt there is any other way, but hey, if you come up with one I'm open to suggestions.
I mean, if the most of us in this thread would think about it soemthing more than just boycotting by not purchasing anything could come up, imho, the real problem for me is how to do that without showing any toxic behaviour.
Breja: Like I said before fearing the boycott leading to GOG's downfall makes no sense. Should the boycott actually become a threat to GOG's very exitence (an almost impossible scenario, but for the sake of discussion) they would obviously react to it and do whatever thay can to appease the boycotters, end the boycott and allow GOG to continue. The idea that people running GOG would rather see it go under than react to the boycott only works if we assume they are completely suicidal. In which case the place is likely doomed anyway.
While you have a point, I was talking about in the long run, as in being unable to do the right thing at the right time (and let's be honest, GOG is screwing up every day).
Time4Tea: Yes, the 'slippery slope' scenario is another reason I don't buy the argument that DRMed cosmetics are ok, because they are minor. If we give them this inch, they will take 3 next time.
I will never understand how can people be fine with such a thing: you are still paying for that product. Having bought the deluxe edition of battletech, I still feel mad about the pre-order locked behind their cursed paradox account system, and suprise suprise: the steam version doesn't have this BS, meaning that a pirated version has more content than a legit GOG offline one!
Way to go to stop piracy GOG, yeah...
Breja: We live in a world were Fallout 76 somehow still lives and makes money, and people even buy a 100$ subscription to it.
Time4Tea: We live in a world where most of the younger generation of gamers wouldn't know what a 'good game' is if it hit them in the face. They'll gleefully gobble up any old half-assed shite, because their buddy bought it and they don't know any better.
I usually don't like to pull the "kids nowadays" excuse, but damn, I do think that general tastes and whatnot are shifting for the worse.
Then again in the past games used to release very slowly, and lack of properly updates post launch meant some solids QA tests, which today are non-existent.
Sadly though, old gamers aren't the target of these companies, which focus on taking advantage of kids (and to a certain extent even stupid people in general) to make them bleed money from their parents credit cards.
