Crawdaddy79: I wish they would take that banner off their ad within GoG. It's like they're asking for charity.
Yeti575: I honestly just spent 3 minutes of my life searching for a thread about this.
It's absolutely beyond my comprehension why I would care that the devs, and owners, get to keep 100% of my *money.
Borderline makes me want to hard pass on GOG.
*assuming I spend it
I guess some people don't get it...? No problem, I will explain. Basically, people don't contextualize their entire video game experience itself from just the video game content they are playing. People count the experience of their experience using the Store or Shopping Platform in with their game. This is very similar to how people count their experience in shopping at a grocery store as part of their experience with the food they purchased there. What happens is that people like shopping in a nice store full of nice people that are kind and patient and helpful, and ALSO has good products at fair prices. Then, after paying they go home and enjoy the food, which hopefully also tastes good after all that, metaphorically connected to finally sitting down and playing the actual in game content of the video game, which is also then judged by gameplay, story, graphics Very very similarly to how food is judged by texture, taste, smell, appearance, and so on.
People care about where their money goes because they care about who they support. Who is not as important as "WHAT" and what, is what they do. Your actions speak louder than most of the other things. So people have a choice between video game shopping platforms and grocery stores that have almost all the same products, but the shopping experience is drastically different. In one place you get treated like garbage and nobody cares and all the money goes to greedy people, but if I may make a loosely weird, but kind of funny and applicable metaphor, GOG is like the wholefoods, or friendly neighborhood locally grown market of the video game world. So people want to support them with their money in exchange for a better overall experience and better treatment as a customer.
People who understand this whole thing, (from what I have observed) basically they don't want to support other types of things being offered (out there) because they don't just feel that it's not as good of an experience, but they genuinely feel that they have been terribly wronged by many other platforms and publishers and developers. (Which is quite honestly true, just look at EA's history)
So to conclude, there is a strong sense of community and trust with people and GOG/CDPR because their main point is not just to be different, but to be different in a good way... And for that I have great respect.