I expect to be down voted to oblivion for posting this, but I’m gonna say it anyway. I’m not happy to see GOG selling hentai and kink games on the store front. Yes I am one of those people who agree that pornography contributes to problems in society; and on a smaller scale problems in the GOG community. So lets focus on that shall well.

My main concern is that smut games will tarnish GOG’s reputation of a place that sells high quality games new and old, and instead; become a place that peddles smut. If you’re thinking ‘what about Steam?’ Well I consider Steam to be a mount Everest sized pile of shit, so the last thing I want to see is GOG becoming more like Steam.

It also make it harder for me to recommend GOG to friends who happen to be parents.

When you play video games with good gameplay and a good story it will stimulate your dopamine. However when you play a hentai game it will stimulate something else, and make you want to masturbate. There is no shortage of masturbatory content on the internet. However, there is a shortage of places which filters out the crap from the gold. Because smut games are designed to be played one handed the gamepaly and story and rendered almost nonexistent. The same applies to porno movies. No body watches Debbie Does Dallas for it’s story and no body plays smut games for the gameplay.

Because of this I don’t see much difference between selling smut and selling those low effort asset swap basement games on Steam. It’s just more crap to add to the pile and make it harder to find the stuff that is good. I would rather GOG remain a place with a foundation of quality and not trash.

if you agree with what I'm saying add your vote in the "keep gog about the games" wish

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/keep_gog_about_the_games

About Censorship

This may seem contradictory after reading my rant on smut, but I’m not in favor of censorship. I’m really not sure why GOG have decided to block Australians from seeing both Evenicle and Subverse since neither of these games are actually banned and you can buy them from Steam. But be mistaken not, it is 100% the decision of GOG to block Australian customers from seeing these products. While I would personally prefer GOG to simply not sell these to begin with on moral grounds, the last thing I want to see is regional segregation. Why the hell have they decided to A sell smut and B make it unenviable for Australian and New Zealand customers?

I sure do hope GOG isn’t falling on hard times and this is an act of desperation or anything. If anyone from staff whishes to contact me either here or privately please do so, I would love to hear what’s going on. As for everyone else, let me know what you think, but do keep it civil.

Do your views on an ideal society then include repression of sexual behavior? GOG has long aimed to be a "better Steam" ever since they took up the Galaxy road, or at least "an alternative to Steam", so your disappointment is guaranteed in this area if you still think things are not heading in this direction. The argument that kids have access to credit cards or other forms of payments to buy "smut" on GOG is a bit far fetched.

I for one am more worried by the level of sexual content displayed constantly on public television (during regular hours), especially in music videos, these days. And don't get me wrong, I grew up watching Alice Cooper pretend to chop up and cook a corpse...

Blaming society issues on content clearly addressed to a mature (21+) audience makes no sense IMHO, but I think we all know where you stand in these matters by now. Agreed a "do not show me adult content on this account" option would be nice.

Errr...they've been selling adult games for years now, they've also been selling mobile games too. I'm not entirely sure where this idea of them only selling 'quality games' comes from other than some sort of 'i do not like this thus it shall not be here' outlook you aren't hiding too well.

You don't have to go on the store pages, they have warnings on. If you're looking at them, you wanted to, you know?

If they're legitimately good games with good production values (As Evenicle and Subverse seem to be) then I have no problem with it. I think the only thing which would tarnish GOG's reputation would be those 3DCG porn games on Steam which have the production values of a bag of potatoes and are just really low brow (you know what I'm talking about, they all have these awful uncanny valley 3d models).

As someone whose child was sexually abused, rape and pedophilia are bad. Full stop. Putting them in media is bad. Full stop.

Of course, the many, many games GOG sells with prolific gore and mass murder are somehow totally fine and 100% family friendly. Typical.

Hey Magmarock,

Thanks for sharing your opinion and feelings on the matter. Doesn't matter if you get downvoted or not, because the way things work around here is that you get downvoted when you're right, or you say things people don't agree with. The whole + and - system on GOG should be removed to be quite honest. It's really just trolls and people who can't tolerate outside opinions that don't mirror their own that use it. I don't think anyone wants to see GOG turn into Steam, and no one wants to see the asset flips, shovelware, and loads of low effort hentai games show up on GOG.

The problem here with your statement is that you're automatically lumping anything that is adult into the pile of shit category because you don't like it. Subverse and Evenicle, the two games that released here yesterday, are honestly objectively higher quality than a lot of the games on GOG. But you thinking that something shouldn't exist here on GOG automatically means it's dog shit. Seriously... Why exactly? Because they have kids that might use GOG somehow and stumble upon one of the select few games you don't think should exist here? What about all the other mature games made for adults that have you killing and murdering people? What about parents actually being parents? Here you are again automatically calling something crap because you don't think it should exist. You're also making statements that you know nothing about. The reason why adult games are becoming so big is because of things like the story. People like having a story that can immerse them, or they can self insert into. It's actually what makes games far more interesting to people than your typical movie...

And again, you'd be wrong to think that people don't play these games for the gameplay either. I can genuinely say this, and that there's a lot of adult games actually have deeper and more engaging gameplay than a lot of the triple A shit that comes out today. Same thing... It's all automatically crap, because you don't think it should exist here. I don't believe you for one second that the handful or so games that would be considered "adult" are impacting your ability to find stuff that you think is good.

It's fine to have the opinions you do, and not wanting to have certain games on the store, but it's hard to even take what you say seriously when it sounds more like "anything I don't think should exist is crap and shouldn't be here".

Have you seen a lot of what's on GOG? Trust me, the two games that released yesterday are of far higher quality than a lot of stuff on GOG. Last I heard, or saw, was that GOG was in the red. CD Projekt wasn't, but GOG was actually losing money. This was also if I remember correctly when Cyberpunk released which means GOG should have had a lot of sales from that. If GOG continues to bleed money would CD Projekt shut it down? Who knows, but I can almost guarantee they wouldn't let GOG sink the ship though, and if things get too bad then it's lights out for this store.

Maybe GOG is trying to expand and diversify its catalogue, and I think that's something they should be doing. GOG is very top heavy in certain genres, and it gets old. I'm forced to shop on other stores, because GOG is just sorely lacking in certain kinds of games.

A lot of GOG's issues come directly from it's userbase. I mean, take Cyberpunk for example, and ignore what a trainwreck it was on console, but CD Projekt had a few Galaxy exclusive items in the game that meant literally nothing to the expereience and didn't even fit with the game. They were things like a GOG T-shirt, a Witcher leather jacket, etc. People around hear screamed like it was the end of the world and that Cyberpunk was "DRM'd".

So even when CD Projekt does something to try and help GOG out and built up it's userbase by bringing people into the community, the people around here throw a hissy fit about it, and act like they need to boycott GOG now.

Take you for example, you have GOG trying to expand their games catalogue with curated games that just happen to be adult, but some people are throwing a hissy fit about it, because they think anything that they don't think should exist on GOG shouldn't be here.

GOG can never win, and I genuinely feel bad for CD Projekt this past year, because they've taken way more flak than they deserve.

'k. Bye.

I agree with you Magmarock
these low quality games shouldnt be here , they should be on itch.io or steam's indie flood section

Anyone can have a belief that porn is bad for the society. Anyone can equate porn with rape and molestation if they so choose. People are free to believe whatever they want, true or false. You want to believe it? Go for it. Just leave the rest of us out of it.

If people don't want to see "smut", there should be a choice. A simple "No Sex Please, We're British" checkbox in the settings and all those titles are hidden. I would vote for that kind of thing being implemented in GOG store and most likely even use it, unless it also censors all the games with some nudity like The Witcher 3. For me it would not be any moral thing to not want to see those titles in my suggestions; I am just not interested in them. I don't want to see sports games for that same reason.

But what I am wholly, completely, from the bottom of my heart against is the attitude of "I don't like something, therefore no one should have it." No, I don't want to play any hentai game but if you want that others cannot play them either, I am 100% against you.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis

Agree

I sort of addressed this in my first post, but I'll go into more detail if you like. Those violent games use use gore to punctuate the action, and increase the level of dopamine. Furthermore can you name a single game on GOG where violence is what you're there to do rather than just the side of what you're already doing.

I agree, at the very least GOG should NOT advertise this stuff on the main page.

GOG should be known for DRM free gaming and classics, not for DRM free X-rated games. They have rejected better games in the past, what ever happened to curation?

You mean like Carrion and Postal?

But now I get your avatar. If going to a brothel and watching a provocative cut scene is a side quest, it's fine?