OK... i tried to remain civil, calm and distant from all that i could read in this thread, especially what you said SergeiKlimov but when insanity, outrage, insult, hyppocrisy and dishonest behavior break the upmost threshold of what can be forgiven, someone just have to say ENOUGH !
And that's what i'm saying right now: ENOUGH ! Enough with you... there is nothing that grants you any right of behaving and talking to people here the way you already did !
I will take time to answer some of the "pearls" of your rethoric, not to answer to you specifically, because i know you just dont give a damn, and that you will keep on going with same disgusting behavior, but i'll answer for and to fellow goglings here. And believe me, digging to some of your words (and i'll try to keep myself on post 171 and 173) will cost me much: it will cost me PAIN, physical real pain, because to answer to all of that, i have to use up my allowed quota of "sitting at a desk on a chair" for efficient typing, despite my health status and disability (that, among other fun effects, uses to cause me pain when i sit longer than a quarter of hour...)
So i'll waste the time i'm allowed to keep in touch with some online friends, and such, just for you, i grant you this victory.
Now:
SergeiKlimov: You are responding to my comment that is addressed to another person.
You are injecting yourself into the conversation, even though you were not mentioned.
Excuse me, but... are you misstaking this forum for private chat ? because it is a PUBLIC forum, and a public discussion here, not a 2 peeps private chat between you and one specific user, for that, just check the chat tab/sub menu in your gog account, thank you.
You are posting on a public thread, and any, or even EVERY member of this comminity, every gog customer, is allowed to just react to whatever you say, or to whatever any other person is saying. If you think you are THAT highly important than nobody is allowed to step in and talk too then you have serious issues with behaving in society ! get down from your ivory tower, mind you, and consider the fact we all here are members of this community, and we are all customers of GOG even if not YOUR customers exclusively.
My mommy would have reminded me such basics in education with a couple of spanking and slapping, and i love my mom, and she never had to do this because i got it right from the very first time.
Klumpen0815: Still ignoring LAN and player made servers, I see.
That would make the game DRM-free and have a place here.
SergeiKlimov: Since its release here, Gremlins, Inc. shows some pretty great sales on GOG, with a number of regions in the top (US/FR/DE/PL in the lead).
I'm not sure what this means for your statement above: that the people who are buying the product on GOG are not really a part of the GOG community? But that would be discriminative, and arbitrarily value opinion of one group of people over the other...
This all sounds very unusual to me, to be honest: that the people who
did not buy our game, are telling us that the game has "no place on GOG", which is contradicted by the hard data of
actual sales of the product on GOG. Does this mean that the voice of a person who did not buy the game should count more than the voice of the person who actually bought the game and is enjoying it? Are they wrong to buy and play?
Are we wrong to take the good sales and low refunds for a proof that the game is making players happy? Really puzzled here.
you keep showing off your big thick hardon sales number here as the ultimate counter-argument to keep dismissing any (valid) criticism or any different opinion... Freud would find this interesting, but regarding the points raised, the size of your sales here, or anywhere else, or the size of your glorious weeny are all irrelevant in this context.
You also dare to use disgusting, condescending, patronizing and hyppocrit rethoric to dismiss any criticism by a wave of the hand from anyone who didnt buy the game here. Want it or not, we all here are members of gog community, and gog customers.. yeah yeah, remember, the kind of persons to whome you and your team once already displayed uttermost gross disrespect last year in a thread on steam, that you afterwards locked down and then deleted since then...
so lets start with the elephant in the room: i shouldnt have done that, my fellow goglings who refused to do it were RIGHT about it but someone has to get one's hand dirty, and even look ridiculous (i'm just waiting for you to jump on it).. I bought your damn game JUST SO i can be demeed worthy of speaking to you and answering to your despicable messages and words ! want proof ? i will give you some, and if needed, i can send you my gog order id/number. So now, how does it fe"el ? yes i'm stupid for buying it if just for repeating the valid points my fellow goglings raised but at least you wont be able to use this escape move?
LAN mod, dedicated server tool, and player-based hosting multiplayers are all valid and technically possible methods of delivering online multiplayer (and i'm not even mentioning hotseat, split screen or mail based mp). You kept trying to make people believe your method of delivering MP mode was the one and only efficient/allowed/technically possible one. It isnt, and this is just a lie, a blatant one. Both old games i played 2 decades ago and even recent ones, all sold here on gog, managed to offer more than one method of MP mode. Sure ogg may remove all that with frequent "galaxy compliant updates" soon as i guess so, but those modes can be achieved, and they dont require maintenance/infrastructure costs for you (as after developping the networking code for it, all the further stuff are handled by players). Of course such mode wouldnt be able to feature some elements like cosmetics rewards, dlc and such. But they are possible. It's just you choosed NOT to make them. Was your right to do that.
what wasnt your right to do is to lie about why you didnt make those modes like you did lie. Just say "we didnt want/couldnt afford"
Now let be VERY CLEAR: any of those mode would instantly have made your game valid/worthy of DRM-Free compliance, no matter if you choosed to also maintain your always online DRM own server mode and/or galaxy mode.
But when people here say your game doesnt have a palce here, and it doesnt belong to this place, they are right ! because without at least ONE of this features, your game is just as on steam, and it's just DRM ridden even if cleverly wrapped in shiny and excuses.
Other games here manage to provide this mode, even late few years releases, and have their place here. You choosed to not include these modes, you choosed to lie about it, you choosed to instead throw guilt and disrecpectful rethoric to people to bully them while dismissing their valid concern and to insult peeps intelligence. So, no, sir, you clearly didnt behave well and dont belong to here, and peeps who refused to buy your game are not to be frown upon or chastized, or patronized or dismissed and to ignore their valid point and criticism "just because" they reacted the right way... I did buy your game JUST to echo their words !
The minute i saw your kind coming on gog, after what you said about us (not very kind or respectful words iirc) a year ago on steam, i knew it wouldnt take long before you drop the mask. Youkept prooving me right over and over and over the thread here by constantly missing the point and playing dumb on purpose, playing passive-agressive and using very nauseous rethorical PR speech to put the blame on people. You even thought you were in position of deserving MORe respect than them, or in a position that gr'anted you the right to talk down on them as if they were mere filthy peasants and you were owning the place. Maybe you are right, as i suspect it is, given the behavior on GOG those past days. But that is not the right way to behave in society with people. May them not be YOUR customers, they still deserve RESPECT as any human being, and youa re NOT above the melee in any possible way in this plane of existence.
and if you want to serve me the usual dish like comparing the size of our weenies, that my word worths crap compared to all your big sales and such, i could bother to compare the average money spending per user basis, to my own order history amount. Guess what ? i will not, because for me it is irrelevant, such kind of argument is only the weapon of your kin !
Best regards !
TL;Dr: you behave like a thug and as if you were owning the place, you speek in a very disgusting and despicable way to regular customers and members here and nothing grants you the right to do that; and you also wrap your design/dev choices in lies and FUD and false claims or irrelevant dismissal counter arguments. Get some manners and come back again thank you
Edit: that's ORDER #E28795D0D065 in case you doubt it