bazilisek: (Though this is not an original observation, it's been discussed before and actually backed with some numbers.)
SimonG: That was me back with bloodygoodgames. If wikipedia can be trusted, GG has 8 employees. On their facebook page GOG has an year old picture with roughly 20 members and the site list 30+ people.
I believe they are a lot bigger than many think. Amongst digital distributors they are possibly, in sheer manpower, in the top five.
I think that's partly to do with GOG's marketing presence. GOG seems to go all out for marketing with presentations and the like, while GamersGate does...pretty much bugger all. They send out the odd email to say that this game or the other is on offer, but other than that, they seem a bit soulless. I think these 8 people are basically those that agree distribution deals and handle the website and servers.
I've worked with several companies where the marketing team was as big as all the other departments combined.
SimonG: Ahem, yes. I don't remember the actual wording, but wasn't it something along the lines of
"screw them, because the creators don't get any money. Screw them for only slaping a CD crack on it, wrapping it in DosBox and then sell it"
He didn't said screw them because they suck. You used a somewhat colourful, slightly longshoremanish language to make his point. But he did have a valuable point.
And even if, that is not hate.
[Hatred (or hate) is a deep and emotional extreme dislike, directed against a certain object or class of objects] GameRager: He called GOG a bunch of pollacks(Arguably a bit racial.)
SimonG: Last time I thought Pollack was a racist term I was informed on this very forum that it is simply polish for "Polish person". Considering how that word was used in The Wire, it is hardly a racist term. At least as far as I can tell.
I think you're getting a bit confused with the German "Polacke", although I may be wrong.
Other than that, this. I'm finding we're agreeing a little too much over the past couple of days. It's getting quite sad. We need to get back into the perpetual "I'm right, you're wrong" arguments again.
