To be fair the no politics rule is a double standard and blatant when Gog even recently legt allowed a game thats while fictional heavily based on US conspiracy beliefs of Donald's Trumps campaign even the year for the advent make it even more clear and worse thing is as far as I have found seems to be a common bug from looking around which is that the game it stops works after a regular US presidency term happens So um ya despite I disagree with how fronzelneekbum put it but a game proof of double standards is here ... this game and its setting https://www.gog.com/game/this_is_the_president as do to what US users for sure can blatantly see as legit political pushing for one side .. a doublestand needs to end or to just do away with ''no politics'' rule

Note not being political just calling out the fact is that GOG clearly needs to equal enforce the rules on themselves and the store content aswell as users or to just drop the rule as I gave a prime example why the rule needs to either be enforced equally or dropped all together

why are you boycotting specifically

Feel free to add me to this list, when you get online and see this post.

=-=-=-=-= Marking a thread in such a manner isn't against the tos/coc, and jokingly calling a person a shill isn't a personal attk.

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Not gonna get into it here(for obv. reasons), but that was me.......I posted a link to the zoom platform Postal collection, along with a list of the collection's contents.

Woah, woah, woah, hol' up! That is an actual violation of forum rules?! 90% of posts get raped with low ratings but a little good-fun rep boosting is verboten?

Verily, no fun allowed. [modded by Framboos] Boycotting video gaemz sellers is srs business!

I'm sorry that my mask of solemnity has slipped.

You see...

I used to think that what happened to this place was a tragedy...

but now I realize...

it's a fucking comedy. He's welcome to it.

Time4Tea, just say the word and I'll ask for this thread to be locked and you can do your own! Or you can have discussion about in the other thread. There's no ego involved here, so I'll gladly back down and join the movment (not like gog release anything worthwhile anyway these days - though I might crack if Terminator Resistance goes on sale for 50+% or Underworld Ascendant is getting released here after all, but I consider the chances of that happening rather low).

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On second thought, I think I may go ahead and contact a mod about locking this thread, as there is a good chance I get banned for saying "fuck" twice in a single post (or something stupid like that) and then I'll no longer be able to update the OP with new names. Which would suck and defeat the whole point.

Just do me one favor: Open a 2022 thread and do it fast. Because having a VERY specific 2021 boycott thread be the hub for a 2022 boycott (and beyond) just won't do.

Wait, isn't home office supposed to make people more productive and stuff?

I guess someone forgot to tell gogstaff that home office doesn't consist of doing yoga and drinking herbal tea all day...

Ah, it seems you haven't had the pleasure yet. Go to the support page (feel free to contact them by sending a deletion request for this thread) and you'll see what I mean.

If your idea of "instandly" is waiting for a couple of weeks, then sure. xD

^^I'm not gonna go over the rest of your, ahem, "points", but rest assured, I had a good, hearty chuckle! :-P

I want to be a woman. I want to have babies. So, uhh, since this post can be interpreted in a variety of ways, I've put you down as "sympathetic to the concept". I hope that's ok.

As I said above in my first post: it isn't

I mean, it SHOULD be fairly easy.

When I log out and log back in, the website somehow magically remembers which posts I hit the + and - buttons on. That information *is* there, it *is* being stored somewhere. So it should be feasible to pull that info and track down bad actors.

Then again, when I sent in a GDPR request last year, that particular info of was nowhere to be found in my dossier either (it did keep track of the helpful-votes I had left for reviews, though)

All I know is, they used to tell me (in PM) that they couldn't moderate for rep manipulation(prolly cuz supposedly no way to track it).

Of course, as I said: I reported a clear cut case awhile back(the other user even admitted it in a few posts), and I was told that Gog doesn't mod for such things......make of it what y'all will.

Anyhoo, gonna leave it at that for now....back to the main topic ;D

Im not boycotting, but Im accompanying the boycott because I believe it's motives are just.
Also, just wanted to say that your words express a maturity and conscience in the idea behind the boycott, so really, thanks for taking the time to write those words.
I hope the best for the DRM-Free market too...

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Offtopic:
The thread has been taken by down vote bots already. lol.
So all threads people don't agree with, they just put a downvoter script and that's it?
Wouldn't be easier for GOG to just get rid of the downvote completely?

I don't really understand the need to create a new list. Why don't you just copy the list as is from T4T's thread?

Why should something dramatic change between 31 December and 1 January?

It's the end of the old year and beginning of a new one! :P
Just kidding, of course. Happy holidays. :)

If by people you mean the (likely) few users who low rate on the regular, then yes.

Eh, it's not like it does anything besides put shiny red marks on posts....I think Gog should tend to much bigger issues first and foremost.

I dunno, just copying people's names from last year's list just feels wrong. At the very least someone would have to ask each individual user if they're ok with being on the 2022 boycott list (and that someone is not going to be me).

‏؜‏‏؜‏ Passive Boycott. Even if I was actively participating, I've not seen any compelling releases in several months, and the support of developers like Nicalis is not exactly bueno.

Problems:
The website is outdated as heck. Lots of things are broken. GOG released a new store page and I've yet to see it. There are paradigms that appear on this very forum that are obsolete conceits from the days of Web 2.0 such as the forum reputation system.

The Forum Code of Conduct don't match the games. Releasing porn games while pooh-pooh the discussion thereof? Frankly strange. Also makes the already absurdly tiny moderation team's job much harder.

Experiments have been conducted without the previous warning of users. Don't just drop things into our lap and act like we're supposed to be peachy with them.

Library management leaves much to be desired. Like a lack of a freesort or being able to mute updates from hidden games. Changelogs are practically cryptids that they're a rumour when one shows up.

UTF support is a bit tricky. GOG doesn't support emoji. That's sort of a problem which is trifling. But the bigger problem is instead of deleting the offending codepoint and returning an error, inserting invalid unicode will just bamf the remainder of a post into the void.؜ ؜You ever see what happens when you insert a few nonprintables on GOG?؜ I don't think GOG supports Hebrew or Arabic in any useful fashion.

Behold, the stones upon which reviews are set upon! Games are largely not static. On GOG, they used to be, but there's only so many millions of old shareware titles that GOG could bother to pick up. Point is, GOG now have games that change; and that means things can occur such as a developer who clicks tongue makes a complete mess of their bed, so to speak. Such as Forager's dev, Hopfrog. The "Solo indie darling" turned out to have been an uncredited team effort; and I can't edit my review to add that to my reflections. Speaking of stones, GOG treats the review system as a limited commodity; giving users an arbitrarily small number of characters of which to put their thoughts in.

VET THE RELEASES. In lay terms, I bequest of GOG to actually check the content of the games they're releasing. It shouldn't be up to us users to discover the violent hanging scene in No One Lives in Heaven, or the alleged rape scenes in many of the recent releases. MST3K discovered this the hard way to screen everything they are going to riff because Sidehackers (AKA: Five the Hard Way) contains a scene where one of the characters is raped and then killed. That was back in the 1990s with a bunch of cowpokes from Minnesota. I presume GOG's crew is more in number and able to do this for titles which have not previously been though a ratings board; seeing as video playthoughs do exist in spades and getting in contact with a developer shouldn't be a tall order. (Even if some of them are absolute edgelords; getting them to reveal their hand should be easy; many like to brag about "offensive" content.)

Personal Problems:
؜GOG really has a streak for not hiring outside of Poland. This is a "I feel they're losing potental talent by not just hiring an eagar intern working in Germany and not having them commute several hours a day back and forth." sort of thing; whatever GOG saves in taxes from Poland's nationalistic policy is soured by a lack of global workforce. Who the heck is going to show up knowing three languages to do helpdesk support in French at the wages/benefits that Poland offers?

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Who the hell picks these؜‽ There are many a time when GOG has made a release that could be said to be a completely subpar game. Storybooks such as To the Moon, joyless experiences whose presence on the store is utterly baffling such as Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, and more insultingly, stillborn or dead games with no realistic chance of updating such as Block'hood.

There's more than two OSes. This is just me signifying my complaint about the absolutely apathy that GOG shows for Linux, but with a minor sidenote for things that weren't built on X86 processors like the Z80 or Motorola 68000.

I'm not a randy 14 year old. I don't mind pornography, or pornographic games. But I do have a semblance of standards, even if they're mostly lyrics to a Sir Mixalot song. Point is, not only is Sturgeon's Revelation in full effect, but finding games which mesh the two well is quite an undertaking. This relates to a point above.

Maybe "Coming Soon" is too generous a title. This relates to games which have been announced well ahead of any reasonable semblance of time which may yet only be a design document on a hermit's desk somewhere in the mountains of Nicaragua. Anticipation may be part of the fun, but I'm a bit old fashioned and prefer my games to be announced only when the absolute completion of code and localization can be ascertained; there are countless games which were previewed in Nintendo Power which never came to be simply because they never got localized.

Not Problems:
The Politics ban. It's clear that there are enough volatile elements within the forums as to render useful discussion a pointless endeavour; furthermore there are enough platforms to grandstand and soapbox upon. This is a games platform first and foremost. However, I would discourage GOG from releasing games which blatantly seek to slap us in the face on hot-button topics or are just modern political simulators.

No more movies. This endeavour was a mistake. Given the volatile nature of copyright, and the lack of titles befitting to a platform such as GOG, I would personally be fine if we all forgot it existed and the server space for these was reclaimed for Motocross Madness or something.