Posted February 26, 2021
Melvinica: Again I'm happy to see that Gog also thinks about us forum users that don't use social media.
It's promo. Retweeting or posting on FB is "sharing" the stuff with the world - free advertising for GOG and the devs/pubs concerned. Posting on the forums is not that - we're the same bunch of regulars all the time, we all know about the game, and anyone interested will have it already. No gain for GOG or a dev/pub.
The only thing forum contests would achieve is draw more people here to the forums. With all the trouble and outrage culture on the internet, and being critically undermanned, I'm not sure GOG will even want that. I something think GOG would rather have the bothersome forums die, looking enviously at Epic, who do just fine without... I mean the forum software from the bronze age is clearly an indication of the priorities - and more likely serves to scare new people off.