tinyE: No I was just venting at a post but I didn't point it out because I really don't want to get into a fight right now.


Make that two posts. :P

Fenixp: No, it's not. Nonetheless, you're censoring yourself, GOG isn't forcing you to not buy the game off Steam.

Sabin_Stargem: That may be true for this particular instance - but what of the future, when multiple distributors refuse to carry a title? Every time they decide to avoid controversy, they become increasingly inclined to avoid anything that they view as dangerous. By refusing to carry certain titles, distributors effectively become censors.

Letting an individual distributor off the hook will only tell other companies that it is okay to restrict their customers. I will oppose any company that threatens my goal: Legal access to all media, without DRM.

Telika: "Memoirs of a succesfull pedophile", by Kant Katchmee ?

itchy01ca01: Just another crappy game sensationalized to the point of uselessness.

MaximumBunny: LOL

MaximumBunny: Oh? I didn't know it was released early in Canada. So what didn't you like about it?

johnnygoging: I don't appreciate the naming and shaming of gog. If the game does release here now, it'll be somewhat inorganic. It'll be a sore spot in the catalogue. A game that forced its way in almost.

This sucks. By turning this farce into a free-speech thing this log of shit of a thing is getting support from people who probably wouldn't give it the time of day.

I do wonder at the decision a little bit, though. Given that Valve has already agreed to release it, that pretty much takes gog off the hook doesn't it? If they're doing it to be different, and hope that it gives something as a result, then the problem is it may not go the way that they want. I wonder if gog felt they'd alienate their die-hard veteran core even more with this game. you'd think those folks are likely to have more conservative view-points and be less tolerant. that said, they're still on gog.com, which means they're fairly forward-thinking tech-savvy types.

That said, I don't hate gog for this. Video games need to start censoring themselves. Shit is getting way out of hand. To use a metaphor, video games are getting older, they're more detailed, they're developing, and so if they drop their pants and shit on the rug it's not even a little bit cute anymore. Developers need to start having the good fucking sense to reign it the fuck in when they need to. With great power comes great responsibility and videogames have to be even more careful than film because they don't just show one scene in context but provide the framework for such a scene countless times in countless different contexts. they're pretty much WMD for violence in art.

Another thing people forget I think is that CDP is public, unlike Valve. that's all I'm gonna say about that.

Everyone is going on and on about respecting the individual and free-speech but at what point does something become hate-speech? Maybe this is just gog showing the world that they do decide, they do curate. Valve isn't curating, they've gone in a different direction, but you don't see anybody from Valve supporting the game.

I wouldn't say no to this game's being sold here but I don't approve of the game or the support that it gets.

MaximumBunny: LOL

MaximumBunny: Oh? I didn't know it was released early in Canada. So what didn't you like about it?

Primo_Victoria: The reviews from bloggers were already out the day the trailer came out last year.

LiquidOxygen80: I wouldn't say that entirely? There was that huge brouhaha with the Cat Lady and it ended up being quite a good and well received game.

johnnygoging: but how similar are these games, really? that game has more going on than just the violence. but then, I'm not trying to create an arbitrary scale by which things are passed or failed.

that's fine, that's why I didn't say I'd' say no to it. I am a bit more opposed to violence in video games than a lot of folks and I know that that has a very real opinion and personal preference element.

I will say I think that the comparison to the cat lady is unfair, though. that game's nonsense was as much an ambiance and metaphor for its message and theme and character development. it was producing something besides garbage, the story just was set in a landfill. postal and more distantly GTA are better comparisons.

LiquidOxygen80: Cat Lady is a fantastic game, but it still got denied, and it took quite a bit of outrage to get it changed.

Telika: but but but :
Telika: BEWARE OF WHO WILL

DENYYYY YOU

ACCESS TO

INFORMATIOOOOOOOOOOON