RWarehall: So this is the GoG who are supposedly "listening". If they really were, they
Now down almost a full 1000 rep, I can tell you. GoG doesn't care at all!
All of you can keep holding your breath for changes until you suffocate.
zeogold: I'll be honest with you here,
I suspect that what you were told was just stuff to keep you quiet about the rep, and despite it being fairly underhanded, I'm not surprised it was done. You frequently obsess over this imaginary number and all of us have told you time and time again literally none of us judge you by it, but instead by your posts. And there's a pretty simple workaround for the link thing since that, like everything else in this place, is broken at best. The only possible counter-argument that could be mustered would be "But new people will judge by it!", which is true, but realistically, how often does that happen? When was the last time we even GOT a new poster who didn't just show up to ask a singular question before leaving (and we'd be lucky if they even respond to the answer)? Not to mention that there's bound to be a slight disconnect/something clicking in their brains if they see a supposedly "bad" user post something polite and informative.
I could even go into the fact that, on top of whatever scamming has happened to you and I sympathize with, you lose a lot of your rep from just being you. Half your posts in this place are spiteful, vitriol-filled rants that make it hard to agree with you even if you're right about whatever you're talking about. I've seen you take multiple "low rated" posts and point to them as examples of how you were done wrong without taking into account the fact that the posts were paragraph after paragraph of expletives and rage. I don't doubt you're on some kind of script as well, but you should take this into account.
Fables' entire job is pretty much PR, so it wouldn't exactly be in line for her to come out and openly say "we don't give a crap about rep" or "there's been multiple complaints about you associated with these downvotes".
Putting all that aside...
What was discussed (or at least, what I HOPE was discussed) were things regarding the STORE and how THAT could improve. It's not a big secret that GOG barely cares about the forum (if at all), and why should they? Seriously, ask yourself how much business they'd lose if this place shut down overnight without warning. 5% of the userbase at BEST would even notice, about 3% would actually care. It would be morally correct for them to invest time and energy into listening to the people who built them up, sure, but in terms of business, they could drop us all like a hot potato and hear nothing but praise for the rest of the company's existence as "the lovely people who let us play GWENT" or something similar. Idealistically, I hope they'd prove me wrong about this, but in reality? Yeah, right.
I didn't used to be this pessimistic on the subject, but looking at what's gone on for as long as I've been here, I honestly believe that the only way they could truly fix the forum at this point would be to wipe out the whole thing and start from scratch, which isn't even
remotely important to them. What GOG invited the Magnificent Six for was more for their own purposes, i.e. gathering information from their most notable users who are actually intelligent and offer constructive criticism (rather than, y'know, "Where Is My Steam Key" Customer #814). At least, that's the best I can figure,
otherwise they would've turned this into some big PR thing (after all, it'd be fantastic for PR and showing how much they "care about their userbase" - but they chose not to take advantage of it).
So you're fine with a person clad in official GOG clothing who literally gives the middle finger to a customer complaint due to their own forum software being exploitable - even if only concerns something as little as forum rep?
The Glorious 6 are just that: big PR.
I don't have the details how they were selected: frequently active poster that defend GOG against any valid criticism or just the luck of the draw or due to some calculations based on their forum registration date.
The OP just reeks of PR and offered "help" in writing it.
2) DRM-Free: I doubt you can convince me that this paragraph wasn't written by GOG's PR department. "DRM-Free is here to stay" sound like a PR slogan. "Even if the industry moves towards online..." doesn't really sound like something a random person who just got invited to visit GOG HQ would say. Too sophisticated.
4) Galaxy Installers: the negativity it caused is acknowleded, but immediately excused with "no malice" and "naïveté". 6 random people are putting out such a sophisticated combined effort in terms of language while at the same time being apologetic for GOG? You can't be that blind to not see those flags.
6)+7) Apparently GOG knows that the current forum software sucks - but I'm getting told by our Glorious 6 that a proper one would take such a long time that it can't be specified. And knowing that the software sucks GOG wanted feedback on how to improve moderation. Doesn't that sound irrational? You know the software is junk but instead of making it your highest priority you rather tweak moderation.
Too lazy to dissect more using this junk forum software.
Though I'm really curious about 3 things:
1. are the Glorious 6 under a NDA or a similar gag order
2. how much of the OP was written by the Glorious 6 - and how much was "provided" by GOG.
3. If there is no NDA in place: how come out of those 6 there is no one with a sharp tongue like mine and capable of critical thinking and logical reasoning.
