Chasmancer: Alas, I do believe I am unknowingly sabotaging your boycott, seeing as even though I've joined up very recently, less than a month ago, I have already spent a ton of money and filled two library pages with great games. And I don't regret that, even though most of them were repeat purchases.

Still, I would gladly speak up against all sorts of forced online dependency, spyware and censorship, especially that of entirely innocuous things (throwing out a nice game over a cartoon bear easter egg, why, GOG, WHY?).

Magnitus: At this point, its an automaton that makes money for shareholders.

dragonslayerxxx: I really don't know what they were thinking or better yet, how they dared to cross this line.

mqstout: And the shareholders should be EXTREMELY upset at GOG management's devaluation of their company by removing its single competitive advantage against its market peers.

By the way, "DRM-agnostic" has been tried and failed numerous times. ShinyLoot is but one example. It's hard to convince both customers and producers when you don't have a clear niche.

Ancient-Red-Dragon: That statement is not so accurate, because as of the most recent financial reports, GOG has been losing its shareholders' money, not making them any.

mqstout: And the shareholders should be EXTREMELY upset at GOG management's devaluation of their company by removing its single competitive advantage against its market peers.

By the way, "DRM-agnostic" has been tried and failed numerous times. ShinyLoot is but one example. It's hard to convince both customers and producers when you don't have a clear niche.

Magnitus: Honestly, I personally can live with a drm-agnostic store (I'm here for the drm-free games, not the store, remember?), provided 3 basic things are done:
- The degree to which the game is drmed is clearly indicated (they currently aren't doing that with multiplayer and they are starting to slip with single-player too)... not hidden somewhere, shown prominently with a lot of clarity as to what is entailed... not my problem if it looks bad for marketing, I don't want to spend money on a drm-infested mess
- If a game is released drm-free, don't sneak in drm that will pollute my backups afterwards
- I can easily find the drm-free games and filter out the rest

If I don't have those 3 things, then yes, my interest in the store will drop very fast.

So no, they can't just do whatever the heck they want with DRMed titles (like they are doing here) and keep my interest.

I'm pretty tolerant about the pragmatic realities of running a business, but this is just bad service for me.

If getting the games I want becomes a hassle (and it has for this title), then I'll go elsewhere or if an alternative is lacking, just enjoy my backlog and wait for one to appear.

Darvond: You can be sympathetic without directly boycotting; my boycot was initally noted as a passive agressive boycott.

Chasmancer: Oh, I am sympathetic. I just cannot join with the protest in good faith, seeing as I'm both very new here, and spent a lot of money in that very short timespan already.

SuperLibby72: How many people in this thread have email GOG about the issue? Getting hundreds of emails form upset customers might a be good way to show them.

SuperLibby72: How many people in this thread have email GOG about the issue? Getting hundreds of emails form upset customers might a be good way to get the point across.

mqstout: I have. But they're already weeks behind on support (And have been for the 10 months at least) and will promptly close it without thought or care.

LiefLayer: I opened a ticket for this reason.
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