I was searching for "GOG vs Stean" on google, and I've see a man talk this about GOG:

"The community there. Any sort of discussion outside of "GOG is awesome everyone else is evil" makes everyone there get into uncontrolled rage.

I once mentioned there are DRM-free games on Steam too and ever since then every post of mine gets downvoted into oblivion. It's as if someone wrote a script to do that.

Also because they have upvote/downvote system it favors old users and causes formation of cliques and circlejerks there.

It gets worse. Moderators there and other gog employees love this system and encourage this type of behavior.

Oh and they will ban you without second thought and you will lose access to your games DRM-free or not if they don't like you. Unless you backed them all up or something. Says so in their policy document.

Not much difference with Steam but a lot more intolerant and aggressive. I just wish I could unbuy all those games that I bought there."

Is this real? I love GOG, and I make publicity free sometimes O__o is the only store of games I like, and where I try to pay for my games (most part of my games on steam is keys that I gained on humble bundle).

If you get banned here you don't lose access to your games.

Really? I can be okay then? If I din't still make a backup?

I think if you were caught copying your games on disc and selling them you might lose everything, but bad behavior will only get you kicked from the forum, not from the game site itself. Rule of thumb: keep it legal.

No, that is nonsense. First off the single and sole point for shopping here is drm free. What this means is you are supposed to download the installers and keep them yourself backed up. That way no-one and nothing can take them away from you, unlike steam where a lot have to be run via the client and may contain extra measures, which means steam can cut your access to your product. Apart from Gwent, gog does not have this power.
What may have happened is this chap brought keys from g2a and redeemed them here, and then after a while gog find out that those keys are fraudulently obtained - typical of g2a which is a fraud site. In this case those games can disappear from your library, but if you have downloaded the installers, then you still have it.
As for the community here, yes there are rows and some fanboyism, but anyone can post and chat. Just ignore the whole rep system which is totally broken (much like the rest of the site) and used abusively to downvote people. Just ignore that.
And no we are not all gog fanboys, there is plenty of wrong things here and the forum is quite vocal about these things - like default galaxy enabled installers and such like, which is why you have the option (albeit a fair bit hidden) to download just installers and not be forced to use a client.
So there are plenty of issues here, a lot to do with the broken site, and there are things to bear in mind such as ignoring rep, it overall it's a pretty good site and is mostly drm free, which if that means anything to you is good. There are plenty of other drm free (to a certain extent) stores as well, and yes a fair few games from steam - once downloaded via client - are drm free. Humble, itch, fire flower to name a few, see here for others:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/sites_like_gog
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_video_games_digital_distributors
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_games_on_humble_store

GOG is far from perfect, but it's still way better than any DRM-infested platform like Steam.

And there's nothing at all wrong with pointing out that fact.

The raging guy quoted in the OP seems to want to suppress knowledge of this fact and compel everyone to conform into accepting DRM.

And unless Steam provides .exe installers/backup copies for their games, which AFAIK they don't, then there is no such thing as DRM-free on Steam.

As others have said, it sounds like a troll:-

1. People hardly downvote others for "merely mentioning there are DRM-Free games on Steam" when there's an entire thread devoted to that of which you can see no-one gets downvoted (whilst the guy who created it is "High rated").

2. Just like Steam, you don't lose any games if you get banned in the forums, however just like Steam you could potentially lose your account in any dispute involving fraud / piracy. If anything he has the "fragility" aspect completely backwards as DRM-Free Offline Installers will keep on working even if you somehow did lose your account, whilst getting into a dispute with Steam / Origin, etc, Customer Services resulting in say you being forced to do a charge-back (or even open a Paypal dispute) can indeed result in losing your whole account and along with it access to your one and only cloud-based copy being revoked. "Unless you backed them all up or something" sounds like someone too stupid (or pretending to be) to understand the killer feature of GOG - anything you have backed up offline which does no online DRM checks = you have a 2nd copy that makes you automatically immune from losing the cloud version.

3. "Not much difference with Steam but a lot more intolerant and aggressive". LOL. Sounds like he's never used the Steam forums where questions like "Is there a DRM-Free version available" will result in aggressive & repeatedly mindless false accusation of piracy... Or troll reviews. Or fanboys of buggy games who leave snarky responses to well written reviews then run round downvoting every review that person has ever written.

You're referring to this post? https://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/gog-or-steam-what-is-your-preference-32049180/?page=2#js-message-343307819

There have been a few cases in GOG's history where members have flown off the handle, I suspect this was one of them. The suggestion that they will ban you, suggests this user got banned, but I don't remember the username, so I guess they were someone else on this site. The reason they got banned (if they did) is not stated, so we can't be sure what really happened.

The suggestion they lost their games because of it is, as others have said, questionable. However it's not hard to find a case of sour grapes if you search the internet hard enough, it doesn't mean the overall site is broken.

Having said all that, he's right that this community is toxic as fsck, and that the upvote/downvote system is totally broken. I just suspect that he's a dsck too.

Well, the rep system does prevent some people from posting links. Does it also prevent people from posting attachments? I don't know or care. Some giveaways also require a minimum rep, I guess, although I never look that closely at those. In any case, it can't be completely ignored. At least being downvoted on gog has few downsides.

If you want a broken rep system, just look at eBay's feedback scores, assuming they still do that (it's been decades since I last visited -- how time files). Since they don't/didn't delay display of the post-sale feedback until after both sides have posted, or the deadline, the larger user can hold the smaller user(s)' feedback hostage (some are/were even up front about it, stating that they require a positive feedback before the deadline, or they will give you negative feedback -- what's the point of a feedback system if you're not allowed to be honest, and only have 80 characters to explain yourself?). Unlike gog, your eBay reputation is worth something: not only do low scores equal fewer sales, but also denies access to some sales.

Also, I don't find the forum to be particularly broken. Yeah, there are a few bugs, but do you really want to encourage gog to replace the forum in the same way that they just replaced the main page (or even worse)?

A chunk of that is pretty accurate.

User account still exists, so no ban it seems. Google brings up 3 threads they participated in, one of which resulted in some downvoting after criticising GOG. I suppose that explains their attitude in the gamespot thread.


On a sidenote, the comments regarding ban-happiness and the voting system are pretty comical, considering the forums here have had periods of severe undermoderation and the voting system being considered terrible by most users.