No, but I regret posting it IN the Hatoful Boyfriend thread because I did not contribute to it. It wasn't talking about Hatoful Boyfriend, so it had no business being there.

There is no such thing as a neutral position...because "you are either with us or against us"... What I mean is, just by being neutral, you are seen as a traitor against humanity(or against gaming or against whatever) by many groups of people in this world. They feel that if you don't oppose or support something as strongly as they do, then you must be a bad person or a potential threat.

Makes sense. So, as to the points you brought up:

1) I wouldn't really expect much discussion of substance from a release thread within an hour of the game being put up. I mean, what are people going to talk about? "Hey guise, bought the game, downloading now! Diz is going to be awesum!"

2) Most of the complaining is simply people being frustrated. Most people, I guess, expected Galaxy to be revealed rather than major revamps being done on the site itself. I admit that I've done my fair bit of bitching about it, but I don't do it because I take delight in telling GOG that they screwed something up, on the contrary. I really want GOG to succeed (as do most people on these forums, I would assume) and the last week just felt like such a huge step backwards. And I think it's a good thing that GOG is willing to give users the opportunity to vent their frustration, rather than trying to silence them, no matter how annoying the complaining gets.

PS: Gotta admit, I was getting kind of sick of the old "This is neither good NOR old!"-routine in release threads. Brace yourself for "This is neither good NOR old NOR a GAME!" in the future!

Meh. Just another rage post. The OP is just a common internet troll. STFU? GTFO? What is this? Steam forums? Have people here degenerated so much that they now resort to using the acronyms which are the most overused in conversations of internet trolls? Preposterous!


Here, have a +1.
You, sir, deserve applause!

You have to keep in mind that, by the time a game is released here at GOG, it's usually been around for a few weeks, months, or in the case of a classic game even for many years. So, yes, in most cases there is plenty to talk about. Theoretically speaking.

Well said you deserve some applause.

I'll take 7 grains of Goat.

I beg to differ. Some people (let's agree that's not everyone) have issues with the visual changes. I personally preferred the old look BUT I strongly miss the logo. Now it's in their (gog's) interest to get critics and pull insight from it (not from everything obviously).

Although the forum is not only buzzing about visual aspect. We are talking 'covert' regional pricing, missing features, visual glitches, lacking support, 35 games 'leaving the ship' .... so just stopping the thinking to 'people are just whining because they dislike the looks' fall a bit short on the insightful scale. I understand it can be annoying if you just stumble on all that all of a sudden, but don't be hasty judging things.

No. Stop the applause. I was comment privileged and forgot to check them at the door. My Cis-male fingers were oppressive as they hit my multi-ethnic keyboard with their racist, colonial power typing. I would have deleted the comment, but my 3 other headmates voted together that it was ok, so long as the words were not phrased in a manner that might offend any vegans or trans-spatial alien furries out there.

I wasn't even talking about the reactions to the website and service redesign, specifically. As I said in my initial post, some people here will complain about literally everything GOG does, and I've been observing that kind of behaviour for at least 6 months or so, not just recently.

As for the problems you mentioned, those are to be expected due to the redesign. I'm sure they're doing their best to make everything run smoothly again. The only thing that personally bothers me to some extent, is the loss of those games you mentioned, but you can't fully blame GOG for that either. And who knows, maybe GOG and the publisher(s) will come to an agreement eventually, and the games will return here.

Oh, ok yes, many elements of our lot doesn't seem to appreciate surprise. I myself have issues with that :)

The way I see that is that those changes are kinda presented as a 'trade-off' but so far the communication on that has been lacking at best in my opinion (given the amount of changes). That's matter for voicing concern.

solution : stop giving crap about what people thinks, wont live forever, dont need to care forever

People have been telling me that for years. Might listen to it one of these days... maybe.

If you're defending the fact that the bulk of any announcement/release thread is full of unrelated ranting as a good thing, then I really have nothing to say.

For instance, with every gaming documentary movie release, I think there's a point where people are no longer giving any information ("These aren't the movies I like!" Well duh... documentaries in general don't have mainstream appeal.) You defend the right of free speech, which is fair, in theory. But as far as actually building or encouraging a community, there is such a thing as destructive posts.

It is a good thing because even though those posts are useless to people looking for information about the game, people still felt the need to make them. And if people felt the need to make such posts, I'm sure they have their reasons. Maybe they wanted to convince themselves that people care about their thoughts(wanted to feel special). Maybe they wanted to kill some time. Maybe they needed to vent.. It's not healthy to bottle things up after all. The only destructive posts are the posts coming from trolls. All other posts, no matter how annoying to some of us, do no real damage to a community.