Note for the future : if we do troll awards 2015 at the end of the year, I will probably pin my vote on the p1ñapl ;-)

Edit : added reference to culprit

"dumbass", "stupid", "crap", "sheep"

You are one angry person, aren't you?

I agree. I LOVED POTCO, but I think everyone that had played the game probably should have saw the end coming. Also some people on the POTCO wishlist sadly can't tell the difference between trolling the fans of that game and people that actually have legitimate points about why the game (highly likely) won't be on GOG. That's kind of ignorant on a lot of people's part. I voted to help a bit but my hopes aren't that high. Either way I've moved on to other games, so I won't be too upset over POTCO, and I respect opinions over the game.

I find it ironic when people assume I'm angry because I use "harsh" words to express myself, whatever that may mean given multitude of context. These words exist for expression more or less. If you are waiting for me to show sympathy and express how sad I am for their beloved game to be gone, then you're waiting in vain. This and I wouldn't get angry and waste my brain cells for nobodies on the internet whom I don't even know more in depth than their username.

Tell me, would it be fair to categorize you as mellow just because you use mellow words, often colorless? No, because that's just how you express yourself on the internet. But alas, I don't see what your point is anyway. I said once let's agree we disagree. Yet I see you continue for some unknown reason to change my stance on a bunch of individuals whom I don't even know outside of the fact they conflict my interests. Don't get me wrong. I'm entertained you're using your energy on me. I just don't see the reason behind it. Seems pointless to me. Changing an individual's stance when you have nothing to gain does not work as the fundamental law of economics states.

Although the majority of the votes are due to a misinformed community, the pure disrespect of the GOG crowd is what drives me crazy. 95% of the people who are stating hateful messages have never even played, or most likely heard of the game before it was posted to the wishlist. Although POTCO may stand as a long shot from being produced from GOG, GOG is already in affiliation with Disney and it could be used as a tool to spread the message.

This seems to be one of the rudest, and most unfriendly communities I've seen if they discourage the reformation of any closed down game. That's what the community here was established upon, to play old games. Although it is important to have the terms set straight and the message spread, people should not go insulting a game they never played, or really got into. The whole community should feel sympathy to a closed down game as everyone here has most likely lost a game and know how it felt.

(Don't bash me with "welcome to the internet" or there is "free speech." I'm aware of this. The point is that the many people that are immersed around a community that remakes games, would discriminates so heavily on one improbable remake -- or even blame it on trolls. It is terrible that the GOG community has stooped to this level, even insulting the people who are misinformed.)

My point is: "GOG is no longer one of the best communities on the internet".
And it's getting worse every day.

but gog is only affiliated with disney for lucasarts games nothing more
you seem to thing gog has some sort of clout they can throw around or can strong arm disney in to co operating

as well as the fact that pirates online is an MMO gog doesnt do mmo's
they dont have the infrastructure or the financial means to do so

and dont point to galaxy thats an optional client and multiplayer client for games with multiplayer components which is something entitrely different then an always on mmo

and lets not point fingers here shall we ?

both communities are to blame

the pirates community is short sighted and borderline delusional in thinking gog could even hope to ressurect
pirates online
as well as branding everybody who disagrees and comes up with valid points as a dissident troll ( dont deney it go and look at the comments on the voting thread )

the gog community is rude crude unfriendly and doesnt mince words and crushes dreams
no bullshit just the cold ugly truth and reality

coudl it have been sugar coated ? sure
but both communities are beligerent and neither are in a good light

and the pirates onlien community seems to cling on to this farfetched hope that gog will ressurect their game and are unwilling to believe or even hear otherwise

and you wonder why the two clash

i said it before the only hope this game has is pirates rewritten and private servers
and neither are affiliated with gog

I don't recall stating GOG is one of the best communities on the internet in this discussion in the first place. I'll admit it has gone downhill percentage wise. While the great members of the community are still around, a lot of scammers, leechers, and trolls have joined. But even yet still, while the before mentioned is the case, the community still holds strong. And I still see thins whole fiasco as a conflict of interests.

And Gog Galaxy won't?

I wasn't going to post on this thread at all, I'm amazed that it's still going after a week in fact.

The Potco community of pirate rpg'ers is alive and well as you can see by the number of votes for the wish.

YES - we know the game has gone
YES - we've tried the petitions, writing to Disney, publicising the game, resurrecting it, moving on to other games.
YES - we know there is probably no chance at all that Gog would even give it a second glance
YES - Potco was a pretty horrific game, graphically and mechanically but we paid to play it because of the community there. Whatever Disney did, they enabled the building of a strong, caring, enthusiastic community of teens, tweens and adults. Plus the fact you could sail with a crew and the combat was pretty fun too.
YES - we now realise that the Gog community is willing to pass judgement on anything that doesn't fit their notions of how or what Gog is about or even what constitutes a good game.
YES - we know we should 'get a life', 'get over it', 'move on'.

Even so. We'll keep trying to get some remnant of this game back. It was unique.

Any publicity is good publicity and reasoned debate or advice is welcomed.

What brought me here initially was the search for companies that were in the business of resurrecting 'Good old Games'. Gog having a relationship with Disney already, added to that impetus. Who's to say they won't want to resurrect old mmo's AT SOME POINT? There are enough old mmo's around now that could be classed as classics. As for Doom/Hexen and the like? Been there done that.

Gog is changing direction, a quick glance at the financial statements published by their parent company shows that they are heading in the direction of mobile gaming (Witcher Arena) and adding more modern, more multi-player games to their store. They're wanting to challenge steam as a platform, their Galaxy will allow cross platform play of modern and old multi-player games.


We grasp at straws. We'd be happy with a multi-player, we'd be happy if the code was released so we could resurrect it ourselves (it hasn't been). We'd be happy if there was at least some dialogue about it, but there isn't, we've been cast adrift with no closure.

All I can say is, you'd have to have been there to know what we're talking about.

gog galaxy is OPTIONAL

you dont have to use it

And exactly what's your basis for that percentage? What exactly makes you believe your community deserves respect in the first place?

Your basis for that percentage is nothing, and the context in which it is used may mean dozens of things. 95% of the people who commented on this fiasco may as well mean 19 out 20 people who bothered with it, while this community has thousands of users. While you may feel offended we don't want your game here since it conflicts with the current policy GOG has, pulling numbers out of nowhere not only will not help, it will make your community look worse. And please, what kind of respect would your community show if when PotCO was running suddenly the fanbase of another MMO started requesting Disney to support their MMO at the cost of yours? I'll tell you what kind. None! Since all people in your community can do is either ignore and dismiss others as "trolls" when they conflict their interest and can only reply with "piss off" and "you''re a retard", I doubt you would've done any better, so spare me the hypocrisy.

See, here's the thing. If you were any remotely informed like you should have been, you would have known by now Galaxy is not only optional, it works as a multiplayer server host for many actual old games, for which, by the way, there are already many third party hosts of servers for.

Irrelevant to my interests.

Well then, if you thought GOG community was rude, you should have tried the Sony Online forums. Your community would have been horrified.

And we will be here to fight it.

Am I missing something? You game is not even close to "old" as some of GOG's games are and even less so good. You yourself said the game was a mess with the only thing going for it being the community. That is no basis for a good game.

If you had informed yourself, that relationship is with Lucas Arts specifically and only for a limited number of games.

If and when that happens, GOG has to make sure it has a big enough user base to suffer the loss of many people leaving for good. But back to this, I say it won't happen any time soon. Why? Because when stores like Humble Store, DotEmu, and GOG are thriving with DRM free games, why change and hurt your business in a monopoly held by Steam?

They are adding indie games, yes, but that is because many users of this community DEMANDED these indie games, veteran users, might I add. As for multiplayer games, check your facts. The vast majority of multiplayer games are old games with few indie ones that support this component being multiplayer.

Oh, and this is where GOG will thrive in its pursuit due to being DRM-FREE. Here's the thing, dude. If you had any notion of politics you would understand that the addition of an MMO to the store would drastically change GOG's policy and stance on DRM. If GOG changes that, then publishers will start pushing for DRM'd single player games, because why not? It's a matter of staying true to your creed and loyal to the actual user base that makes you money.

Tell me, how often do you see big companies like Disney giving their code away for free just to please someone? I've never personally seen this happen.

I don't think so. I was there when many of the multiplayer games I've played on consoles closed their servers and when entire communities fell. Yours is no different.

...you DO understand that GOG does not remake games, correct? They release them to run on modern systems, that's all.

What do the Sony Online forums do that's rude? I haven't had a single experience with them, and sorry for asking by the way. Just curious.

Your request would be totally dismissed on a basis that is purely childish and that the game is not on par with today's quality requirements. Add in some arrogant speech patterns with very eloquent vocabulary and most of those who voted for the game wouldn't even have understood that their game was basically insulted.