It's also far easier for any meaningful posts to get lost in a sea of spam unless someone saves them.



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Gog is still the best platform. The boycott favors an epic or steam.

I agree that there are very objectionable things in gog such as the ban on Russian users, but this small group of users who want to sink gog is doing a lot of damage and will probably be banned.

This may be difficult to understand, but you can simply not buy games from any store.

Amazing, right?!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

So... lemme get this straight: Boycotters are doung damage by not buying games. So gog should punish them by rendering them unable to buy games. xD

I've seen my fair share of galaxy-brained takes in this thread, but this may just be the most galaxy-braindest of all!

Please do not add yourself to the trend, since some days, of invoking ban every half an hour. For the rest, I agree.
And I still think a thread of 200+ pages mixed with digressions, insults, bots and spam is not good to be left to grow

No, they are doing a lot of damage because they constantly attack gog and forget that the rest of the platforms are much worse.

These users are known in many cases for their disrespect to other users and can be banned.

If I were gog I would bring back the Russian users and ban this small group of toxic users.

We would all appreciate it.

I am almost tempted to agree with you, but for different reasons.

I believe that punishing Russian gamers for the actions of one man is grossly unfair and petty. Gog is a video game retailer; NOT a political platform. Gog's focus should be politically agnostic; otherwise by Gog's own standard, Gog should have banned the gamers of every single nation on Earth that is actively committing crimes against humanity.

Consider the Communist Dictatorship of China who has committed intentional genocide against the Tibetans, Uyghurs, Chinese Christians, and brutally persecuted those participants of the "Free Hong Kong" movement of 2019-2020. These crimes alone should have resulted in Gog permanently banning all business with China, but Gog has not done so. So why punish Russian gamers for the actions of Vladimir Putin when Chinese gamers are not being made to face the same punishment for Xi Jinping's crimes?

To the people running Gog:

Please tell me in all seriousness that this move to ban Russian gamers is not the result of the historic blood-feud (bitterness, resentment, racism, revenge) between the people of Poland and the people of Russia. What happened to Poland under the U.S.S.R. was atrocious. I recognize that. But holding today's people of Russia to one standard while continuing to do business with China AND completely ignoring their most horrific of crimes to date?

Evil is evil. You cannot have it both ways. And that is not how you run a business that is supposed to be focused on...

Just.
Selling.
Video Games.

(And exactly when were video games so important that banning their sales to a nation could hold that sovereign nation hostage? Seriously?)

Either you run your business with one standard for all, or you remain neutral with no standards at all.

I am genuinely fed up with the idiotic politics. Yes. I am tempted to boycott Gog.

Prove me wrong.

That's cool, but... whose alt are you again?

Zoom Platform is better than gog, the installers are handled better from the naming to actually updating them or fixing a game if it has issues. Also their customer service is light years better than gog.

If you like DRM-free and haven't tried em yet:
Zoom Platform is DRM free as well

Yes, they don't have as many games as here(though they are adding more all the time :)), but they are DRM free and don't support the woke/pc nonsense for virtue points.


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Why can't they be part of this boycott as well? Why the "need" for segregation?

Actually, from your own words/posts(and the posts of others), that is exactly what this thread is and always has been......i.e. "people all have their own reasons for being part of this thread/boycott".

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Only if it's politically correct and/or would give them good PR, it seems.

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I just requested the suggested change to the thread title, and I have also updated the first post list with the requested changes there. I think the change to the title is a very good idea, as it will advertise clearly up-front to anyone browsing the forum what we're boycotting over and what the focus is.

Also, if others want to make other boycott threads for Russia ban, obscure curation, poor customer support, etc. then they should be free to do that without confusion.

Sure, someone's going to step up and make a thread called "Boycotting gog (but for somewhat different reasons than the other boycott thread)"

Peak retardery. I'm out. Remove me from the list.

Already 404.

Whilst GOG's support has gone now with the bot and that, I would not say Zoom are particularly good. I had a simple question, and when I contacted their email, they simply directed me to Discord, where I had to create an account (i.e. hand over my details), and then use an IM system. This may be good for all the cool young kids out there, I like the ask question/get response of the old days, not sitting watching XYZ is typing. That was a real downside to Zoom and I would avoid using it again because of it.