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General discussionRIP Gaming deals thread (2009-2022)(128 posts) (128 posts) 
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Posted April 04, 2022
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tag+: I respect your opinion, and if you find it breaks any CoC rule, please report it accordingly.
Funny how you think I would report anything or anyone here.
Reveals a lot about your way of thinking (and acting?), if you ask me.
But to each their own, of course.
Posted April 04, 2022
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Time4Tea: Does it seem to anybody else rather hypocritical that GOG has spent years trying to style its client as being a 'client to rule all clients', building in links to other online game stores. However, now we are being told that users aren't allowed to even discuss or link to those other stores on the forum.

It's a total farce and makes absolutely no sense.
Good point. And no, nothing of what GOG has done in the last 2 years makes any sense. At this rate, the store will keep having loses, and they will blame DRM-free market, claiming there is no benefit nor room to grow with it. Some users have already started claiming that crap.
Posted April 04, 2022
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Time4Tea: Does it seem to anybody else rather hypocritical that GOG has spent years trying to style its client as being a 'client to rule all clients', building in links to other online game stores.
That's actually a good point. Doesn't Galaxy still include third party stores... ? Against its own best interest... and yet we can't do the very thing included in the official store client. Interesting, to say the least...

I wonder if the people who were present in that COC review meeting considered this harsh reality.
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Posted April 04, 2022
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Time4Tea: Does it seem to anybody else rather hypocritical that GOG has spent years trying to style its client as being a 'client to rule all clients', building in links to other online game stores.
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WinterSnowfall: That's actually a good point. Doesn't Galaxy still include third party stores... ? Against its own best interest... and yet we can't do the very thing included in the official store client. Interesting, to say the least...

I wonder if the people who were present in that COC review meeting considered this harsh reality.
Indeed. So the only logical conclusion would be for gog to lock galaxy for being against the coc.
Posted April 04, 2022
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darkangelz: Indeed. So the only logical conclusion would be for gog to lock galaxy for being against the coc.
If Galaxy were a forum user or thread... sadly it's GOG's official client, and therefore exempt of the COC, unlike us mere mortals :P.
Posted April 04, 2022
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joppo: why was it locked instead of letting it slowly sink to the bottom of Gog's forum? Where did it break the CoC? Is being "made in poor taste" now an infringement of the rules?
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BreOl72: Because every new comment (would have) brought it on top of the list again
So? Do you think it would garner enough interest that it would be bumped up again and again to the point it wouldn't be on third page (50 threads per page) by tomorrow?
And, yet again: is that against the CoC?

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BreOl72: In short: it got derailed, and the OP "joked"(?) about giving away his GOG games.
"Derailed" is a weak excuse when even the original content wasn't a serious matter to begin with (even if there were people with more serious outcomes in the past, but circumstances were a lot different).

"Joked" is an even worse excuse. Even you admit it was a joke i.e. not serious. I can't find any rule in the CoC like "you must not joke"
Posted April 04, 2022
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I see GOG is "enhancing my user experience" again.

RIP one of the last, best threads that kept me coming here.
Posted April 04, 2022
In the words of a great man: What the heck is this?

Come on now.
Posted April 04, 2022
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joppo: "Joked" is an even worse excuse. Even you admit it was a joke i.e. not serious. I can't find any rule in the CoC like "you must not joke"
I will only address this one.
Not the joke (whether put between "" or not) was the problem, but the topic of the joke (=giving away his games collection).
Under normal circumstances (= on any other forum) people would have understood this without further explanation.

Of course - here - things are different. I am not surprised.
Posted April 04, 2022
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ReynardFox: It's not a neutral in the slightest to deliberately frame your argument with such a one-sided view like this from the get go.

Maybe it's time to actually look into the history of GOG and what it's done over the years to foster such a negative environment instead of automatically condemning the users?
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foad01: Outside of these forums people describe these forums as toxic and point out the constant negativity. I am not alone with these observations. There are other GOG communities out there which don't have this level of negativity. Of course, there will be now the accusation that these places are full of GOG shills as this argument will be used very often in these forums if people don't attack GOG, CDPR or the GOG staff. But it isn't true. There are also critical views mentioned in these places.

The constant negativity in these forums made users post links to other stores in the release threads. And this is the root of the what is going on now. Just think about this and then you see what happened here.

That being said, the GOG forums have a very bad reputation. And that's why I usually avoid this place. The reason why I am posting here is that I observed that useful threads were closed and I wondered why. I have found my answer to it and I am not surprised.
The gaming industry is toxic, and GOG has long since stopped being an exception. The only thing your comments reflect is that you value conformity and subservience.
Posted April 04, 2022
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BreOl72: Well written, and quoted for truth.
I'm not seeing much "truth" to be honest. A quick look on reddit/r/gog shows a lot of people complaining about exactly the same dysfunctional customer services as they do here. A look on the "GOG is starting to sell Epic games via Galaxy" thread shows people saying the same "If you drop DRM-Free I'm gone" or quoting fckdrm.com as here. A glance at "The experimental update for GOG GALAXY is out!" is filled with "gog galaxy 2.0 client on linux one day maybe?", "I did a Ctrl + f for Linux and came up blank", Still no Linux support" as here. But only when people post exactly the same comments on GOG forums are they dismissed as "hate" or "entitlement"...

And anyone who's ever visited the Steam forums knows the game discussions contain "OMG u asked for gog version = ur a pirate" level of comments or filled with literally page after page of insults and forum bans over identity politics on almost every single new game. Then there's the "comments" people leave on others game reviews that are always the same cut & paste variations of "How dare you dislike what I like" screeching and emotional fanboy outbursts. I probably don't need to mention the doxxing of former GOG staff by a mob on Resetera do I?...

"GOG forums are the most toxic ever" said literally no-one who's actually visited any other gaming site in their life...
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richlind33: The gaming industry is toxic, and GOG has long since stopped being an exception. The only thing your comments reflect is that you value conformity and subservience.
Conformity and subservience? What has this baseless statement about my person to do with this thread and the actual problem?

Just look at this thread and you see what I mean.


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BrianSim: *snip*
What have other places to do with the current problem? The current problem is locking several threads. And what is the reason for this? The reason is exactly what I have said. Of course, there are places over the internet that are worse than the GOG forums. But this doesn't change the bad reputation. It doesn't change the constant negativity that is omnipresent in several threads, especially the news threads. The root of the current situation is the fact that users posted links to other stores in the release threads. The reason for this behavior can be found in several threads full of bashing this store.
Posted April 04, 2022
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PixelBoy: So when previously GOG's concern was how to convert people visiting those discussions into paying customers here, now GOG's problem will be how to get those people to visit GOG's site to begin with. I wonder if they have actually gone through the numbers here with a calculator and spreadsheet, but it's their business, so it's their concern, not ours.
Sadly, they've made it abundantly clear that they'd be happier if we DRM-free-demanding customers were to go away so could become a "DRM-lite" store with more and ever more DRM on it.
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foad01: The current problem is locking several threads. The root of the current situation is the fact that users posted links to other stores in the release threads.
Yes, with zero sense of logic or consistency...

Epic Store games you can play without the Epic Launcher = Can't have that. No "advertising" on the GOG forums.

Steam games you can play without the Steam client = No problemo! Carry on advertising Steam on the GOG forums...

People are obviously going to mock values and policies that aren't applied consistently.
Posted April 04, 2022
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It's truly amazing how quickly GOG has degraded in the last few years. Hardly any new releases of particular quality. Instead tons of shovelware of the cheapest kind. Then the offering of a game, where half of the content is locked behind DRM. Aggressive marketing for their client with DRMed DLC content as appetizers. Release threads that advertise games in meaningless one-liners. A "commitment" to DRM-freedom, which means rather the opposite when asked. A forum flooded by downvoting bots. And now the blocking of traditional community threads.
GOGs failing is nothing new, but at least there where occasional times of great and suprising releases (Diablo etc.) in the past, that made you forget their shit for a few months. But now?
Abandon all hope.
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