Gotta give credit where it's due even if I disagree with your movement. Props.

Thanks for the inspiration. I'll try to stand up for Chinese GOG gamers when their payments get blocked off by GOG when the Chinese PLA invades Taiwan. Gotta make sure we prioritize innocent gamers of invading countries, with a roof over their heads and food to eat, than uplift innocent non-gaming civilians suffering one of the worst humanitarian crisis this century of course. Because games should unite people and gamers should look out for one another first!

Do you also invite burglers out for dinners after they've robbed one of your neighbours' homes?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/as_long_as_russian_cant_buy_games_here_i_wont_spend_any_penny_here

Russian bots on OVERTIME here. Hey, when the dirty russians can't game, they come and cry and moan about not having games. Good for you. Keep crying Russia. Or keep bleeding. Either way, blood and tears is all you will ever get until Poutine is gone.

It's my protest to inadequate people such as pazZzurro))
lol, you're a freak)

Our reaction is to bUycot GOG, while imposing a bOycot on Ste*m. Why praytell? VAT is why. Supposed to be levied ONLY on EU residents. We reside in Bora Bora in the azure Pacific, not exactly in the EU, eh what? The honorable lads and lasses here rightly decline to impose this fee on us. We can't say the same for the other entity, to which we echo the sentiments of Tony S: "Fuhgeddaboutit!"

Says the person bleeding and crying. Cry more wwaahhhhhhhhhhhhh wahhhhhhhh you fucking baby.

People, thanks for support (it's for normal people, not freaks like itchy01ca01). And for you, freaks, remember your idiom
"People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones"
Just read wiki pages about NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, List of NATO operations and just remember what countries at NATO (Member states of NATO)

Maybe World should boycott all european and american? Or you just two-faced hypocrites?
Try to hear me. We have an idiom "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off."
All european countries, Canada, USA have exported different weapon to Ukraine. It was just before special operation at Ukraine. And now think, just think, for what? Why they have exported a huge amount of weapons? There are 2 scenarios.
1. Ukraine is going to attack and bomb LPR and DPR. and Russia, of course, will answer by helping them. And such european line of arguments will be the same
2. Ukraine is going to attack Russia with help of NATO. Ukraine has territorial claims to Russia. And I say not about Crimea
oleksiihoncharenko/9506 - it's telegram of ukrainian deputy. They have territorial claims of 2 subjects of Russia

And, how do you think, what USA will do, if at Cuba and Venezuela, for example, there will be Russian weapons and Russian military bases? They will just stand by? I have doubt)
you're such piss-ant

Again, you need to cry more. And bleed more.

Just take one moment and think, we Europeans and Russians have our peace, we beat the shit out of each other in WW2 in the end we had the most devastating war one can imagine.

People just need to realize, if the Eurasian continent finds a way together, everything else on this earth, will be the periphery

This is the only reason for powers on the other side of the Atlantic to try to divide, because if ever the Eurasian continent finds a way to be together they will be the periphery with no power at all in this world.

"The Geographical Pivot of History" by Mackinder.

The geographical pivot of history

Of course, you're right)

I think you should ask a blue text to edit the title to add precision, because otherwise the title comes across as a general boycott thread.

"Boycotting DRM and game censorship on GOG, 2021-22" or similar. (might want to be precise; one could say GOG is "censoring" Russians and Belarusians from buying here, though that's probably stretching the meaning ;)

I disagree with telling people this thread is only for boycotting certain things but probably not worth arguing over. (Also I feel like some people have already used this thread as a general "I'm pissed at GOG and want to boycott for reasons not listed in the o.p.", but I could be wrong)

For what it's worth, I 100% agree with the above (either allow general boycotting for any reason, or specify).

Many of my own reasons for boycotting are outside of the scope stated in the OP (though I also do agree with most of it).

Personally I'd prefer having a generic thread, since it's very clear to me that no significant group of people here will ever share the exact same opinions. To me the ideal scenario would be one where we gather all the boycott-related and/or boycott-causing opinions ever stated here and/or found elsewhere (from all sides of the spectrum) and keep track of them with a running poll that keeps getting updated, to see what people in general actually care about on average (something like that might actually help GOG resolve a lot of issues). Though I don't know how one would deal with the inevitable onslaught of poll-voting bots. Also, this is what the community wishlist should have been IMO (but really isn't in practice, because there are many duplicates, only very broad GOG-defined categories and no unvote option).

With all that said, I do see a strong case against a generic thread, since keeping the scope limited here might mitigate the risk that this thread gets locked due to code of conduct violations.


EDIT: I should start paying more attention to the red squiggly spellcheck underlines.

I think this would be a good idea. If there are no significant objections from anyone who is signed on the list, I will make a request to change the thread title within a couple of days.

I don't think that GOG ceasing to do business in Russia falls under 'censorship'. Censorship usually involves some sort of selective blocking of media, because certain forms of media are deemed to be offensive or inconvenient. GOG has made a business decision to cease all business in Russia, in response to an active military conflict that is currently happening in Europe. It's not about the nature of the media - it's a broader business decision (CDPR is also not selling its own games). I am happy to hear differing views on it though.

Thanks for your input, Hexchild. I am strongly in favor of keeping the boycott thread focused on the issues that it was set up over initially. The GOG community seems to be somewhat divided over many issues and not everyone agrees with all of them. Some people dislike the curation, whilst others are in favor. Some dislike Galaxy while others love it. For some, the lack of Linux support or the state of customer support are bigger issues. Some seem to dislike the recent influx of porn games, etc ...

I think it is a really good idea to try to keep things focused on one or two specific issues and I had thought issues like DRM and censorship are ones that would resonate with a many GOG users. With a generic boycott thread, there would be more risk of watering down the message and losing track of which issues are most problematic/relevant.

If there are no objections, I will request the title change, to be clear that this boycott is specific to those issues and that will also hopefully open the door for other boycott threads to be created for other issues, as needed. I don't want to give the impression that this thread is trying to dictate who can boycott and over what issues.

If your plan is to increase support for Putin and thus for the war in Ukraine in Russia, keep on, you are doing it wonderfully.