I can't speak for anyone else, but for me Thiev's post just happened to be the one that finally got me to respond. It's not any better when Judas makes those comments, and I get tired of GOG staff taking that attitude towards releases and customer eagerness, whether they're being serious or not. I can understand why they would get tired of having people ask about certain games, but it's best to just not respond if the only reply you can give is one that might be taken as being disrespectful.

EDIT: To be clear, it's not a big deal to me, but it can be irritating.

Personally, I prefer the presence of a fellow gamer cracking tong-in-cheek jokes, at the risk of some of them being slightly off, than total radio silence except for impersonal official announcements. Feels like there's actual human beings on the other side, and not simply a business. But to each his/her own :)

EDIT : Note it's not a critic. I just work in a branch (sewer engieneering) where personal informal contact with a partner's employees is the norm (when you walk in shit during your job, being formal with other shitwalkers tend to feel unnatural ^^), so that probably has an influence of what I deem appropriate in a business environment ^^

Beware! Don't fool about with serious gamers. ;)

I can bear a whole lot of teasing. But not while you're bluffing. :)

If you're teasing, you better have three brand new aces (AAA) and a pair of old kings.

*facepalm*

Guys, he clearly wasn't serious. The :P at the end of the sentence is the smiley with the tongue sticking out. If you can't see that tilt your head 90° to the left while having a closer look. On top of that what he wrote was similar to the old "If you ..., God kills a kitten" meme.

I really don't understand how anyone could take what he wrote literally. I also have to agree with Kardwill and fables: I prefer a tongue in cheek joke that shows you are dealing with real humans rather than a faceless corporate machine and silence is worse since that is commonly seen by the customer as being ignored.

It seems to be a pretty cool game, I'm sure it's not that bad :P

I agree. Even when you prank about stuff we ask for (and crush our souls in that process :P) we DO know that it was read, that you interact.

A random "oh yeah, we read stuff here" once in a blue moon if at all just aint the same.

WHERE'S RESIDENT EVUL V11 ?!

Fuck yeah, they just need to remove Denuvo and the need to launch via the steam client.

The lesson I see here is that the adult children we have in this forum should stop nagging the blues for information about future releases. It could compromise the releases itself due to the complex legalese and the situation gog is in with its retail/online competitors in the same market. Also other devs and publishers reading gog employees blabbing about it would shy them away from further contact.

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/806093019753680896

1 Down and let's hope for one game from this list a month to make 2017 an amazing year for re-releasing classic games.

Silence isn't ideal, but there are more options than saying nothing or "joking" about pushing release dates back to spite customers. I don't want to give off the wrong impression here - I love that GOG staff are active on the forum, and that they talk like actual people instead of either being silent or rigidly going off a script like GOG Support does. However, in any position where you're talking to customers, there are certain things that inappropriate to say.

Thiev was clearly joking, as is Judas when he makes similar comments. Even though these comments are jokes, however, they still give off a message that GOG staff are irritated by comments and questions regarding when games will finally get released here. That's understandable, but it's generally not a good thing to let your customers know how they're getting on your nerves. The concern here isn't that GOG would actually delay releases based on random forum posts, but how customers are being responded to.

I hope I've been clear this time, because I feel like my previous post may have come across the wrong way based on the responses I've gotten. Again though, this all really isn't that big of a deal to me, and if I had known my initial post was going to get me involved in so much discussion I wouldn't have bothered making it.

I wonder if GOG will get Cayne, the free STASIS prequel. I hope so.

I hope so!