That happens when you go public. Shareholders have no need for principles.

Also I think you would argue differently if you were the guy who got told "we lost the Chinese market because of your decision, well done, pack your stuff".

It's kind of funny and sad together to see how many stupid discussions and threads were posted here on the forum without any problems, but these discussions that are clearly about GOG and are important for many customers (especially many folks from the beginning) should go. If the forum would be flooded by dozens threads a day I would understand if someone would become annoyed, but if someone can't stand maybe few different threads with so many open questions (not only about the Devotion story) is kind of irritating. People are waiting for GOG to give answers, so at least a few reminders in the forum should be okay, also for all those who sadly don't care about the topic.

Do you really believe that for GOG the forum is in any way relevant anymore? They really showed that social media is important to them. Today the forum is, just like the values they started with, a burden from the past. And exactly for that reason the boycott here will unfortunately not bring so much, as the forum has not the media range to gather enough attention, especially for top management. After the PR stunt in 2010 the top management wrote and discussed on the forum, today you see only mods deleting postings and closing threads. The communication is gone. Most what you read from from GOG today is the typical PR talk without any essence, like "from gamers for gamers", but nothing else.



About the topic: With the Devotion story the rest of my before already decreasing goodwill and trust was completely gone. I'm not naive to believe that a company can hold all their values they started with, I have no problems with adjustments and changes, but the way GOG especially in the last years completely changed away from what they started is scary and disappointing. As result I would not say I boycott GOG, as that would mean a behavior on purpose, for me it's more a natural process of stop buying here due the continuous disappointments. The Devotion story, as awful as it is alone, was just the last straw that broke the camel's back for me. Of course I will not delete my account, why should I cut off myself from updates, something GOG got also my money for? I'm also not saying I will never buy here again or I will leave forever, but at the moment it's on GOGs site to decide what kind of company they want to be and start to communicate in a honorable way again. Maybe then someday I can respect and trust them again, but as it seems as they're trying to riding it out they just confirm the negative impression I got of them. With trust is also enjoyment to shop here gone, so fro now I will take advantage of my backlog or find other ways to entertain myself.

Well, if the Chinese market is only accessible by pandering to the narcissism of the unelected leader of a one-party dictatorship, maybe it shouldn't be worth pursuing.
I'm not even a "China hawk", I don't think China is the worst country in the world or that a new Cold war with them is a good idea. But neither do I think that the CCP should be able to dictate globally which games one is able to buy. And Gog actually pretending their stance is pro-consumer is just too much to take.

Shall not leave the forums.

Not planning to purchase anything else here.

Nice backlog.

I'm with you.

Updated and moved here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/boycotting_gog_2021/post140

You nailed it. I don't hate Gog. Not at all.
I am just profoundly displeased with its latest shenanigans. But I hold some (naive, I know) hope that they could continue being the store that treats its customers as people instead of walking moneybags. Like they did for a long while in years past.

The problem is just that their recent decisions have all been moving in the opposite direction, so while you can say that they are still the best store, where does that road lead to? They have been trying to lose that advantage, very fast.

People are acting as if the boycotters were interested in seeing Gog close its doors. Quite the contrary, I have all the interest in seeing them successful. I just don't want it to happen at the cost of everything that made them the best option to begin with.

Well, Gog's silence since their recent blunders has been going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on... aren't we customers allowed to want answers? And how do you expect us to get them?

The problem with the internet, is that it gives fools like yourself the power to do a lot of harm.
Without the internet, a village's fool like yourself would be harmless, people would just laugh at you.
The internet allows village fools to unite and do damage in large groups.
Personally i believe that you wont succeed.
Yes village fools are noisy and they seem omnipresent, but in the end they will be just forgotten and laughed at in retrospective, least thats my hope.

Welcome to the Club.

I have not purchased anything from CDP, CDPR or GOG since the summer sale of June 2019. I am closing in on 19 months.

While I did not pick up anything from GOG again, I can say I am happy I picked up these bad boys

Ikaruga Physical Switch Edition
Psikyo Alpha

Also picked up Bravo and some other games, went a little too far, but it is ok to treat yourself every once in a while, especially if hard and honest work paid off after 9 months, got some imports of indies and other overlooked games, too. So I am well stacked for the future.

There should have done the risk management before announcing the game is coming to the store. Not hard for them to check if it has a past controversy and then decided if the game is too hot for them. Instead, GOG pulls a really unprofessional move, leads a company on and drops support with 5 hours till release. This is totally on GOG for there unprofessional mess up.

Also makes you wonder if there leave a company hanging with 5 hours on the clock if there do the same to us. In the user agreement says there try and give us 60 days to download are collection if the worse happens to GOG but what happens if its 5 hours, who can say now with how unprofessional there are. For the time being I will be boycotting GOG, if there start to act more professional and start to act on the issues I have on them I will release it.

Things I would like to see is for them is to hire someone to remind devs to keep games updated and to continue to make sure games are kept up to date on GOG (including offline installers) and for all games with DRM in single player games to be patched and if DRM is not removed or game is not kept up to date it gets removed. This is the bare minimum I would like to see from them.

It would be nice just to see them make a effort on these things like with Cyberpunk 2077 there could get the DRM my rewards added in the next patch it would take them like 60 seconds to fix that.

Well, Onizuka (refering to your picture at the time of posting of course), they will probably likely not do that (not any time soon anyway) since that entire "my rewards" ordeal is likely a proving ground gate for future monetization of the game (through "exclusive in game content").

I definitely want to see GOG release Release Devotion. If not at the very least they should make a statement. I'm not going to commit to any long term boycott but I am reserving any more purchases until I hear more about what GOG plan to do.

Nope, sorry ..... you are misguided at best, and failing to see the full picture.

I wish you well though.

The shareholders have to know why it's tanking, though, which requires a social media campaign in today's market. Otherwise, they'll just see gog as a sinking ship and close it down. We see this time and time again with games companies being tone deaf to their base. Investors seem to only look in on social media trends and such, never actually go to random game forums or whatever to take a look.

If GOG banned these people, it would be even worse for their reputation. If they don't, it's either because they don't know what to do anymore, or they don't want whatever rep they have left to be burnt.

Or...

This may sound like a conspiracy theory, but now that I think of it, what if someone with great influence in GOG's decisions is actually trying to cripple the store? If so, letting all this chaos slide would be beneficial for them.
I can only wonder what their intentions would be, for trying to do such a thing. Maybe a game of control over the market share? Maybe they want to associate DRM free with bad things, so people will resort/go back to DRM'd gaming? I hope I'm wrong, but now I'm worried of what might be the case.