Time4Tea: I would like to announce that I have decided to boycott GOG for 2021. This is in response to several decisions the site has made over the past year that I believe have been deeply misguided:
Firstly, the continued slippage of GOG's DRM-free values. [...]
Next, the continued heavy pushing of Galaxy and the lack of maintenance of the offline installers. [...]
Is anyone else intending to boycott GOG? Who is with me?
Initially I was about to ask you to list me as one of the "sympathetic" people. You know - a full boycott is a strong move, and I still somehow believed that there are still good people in GOG, and that they will make things right.
But in the meantime I've read more and more posts. I've noticed the taking down of fckdrm.com (I haven't been actively browsing the forums for the last few months), then - kind of humorously - I saw also what had happened to The Gamer's Bill of Rights.
(See the Post 51 in a thread about Epic store integration, and then go to the topic with the Bill (screenshot attached). If that was just a software bug, then I'm pretty sure that the spirits are trying to tell us something.) I think that even that it's still less than 100 people, and in the corporate scale it does not matter much (if anything), then it may actually be the time to stop being nice and gentle.
I came to GOG because I saw them as the fighters for The Right Thing. In the deteriorating world, where all the higher ideals and freedoms are being ignored, forgotten, or abused by unscrupulous organisations to boost their sales, it was looking like light in the tunnel. I shall have remembered that usually the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of the oncoming train. Stupid me. :(
So, please add me to the boycotters' section! I still have some money on my GOG wallet, and I will probably spend them, but I won't be making any recharging nor any real money purchases. Not for the year. Until GOG convinces me that they still care for the values that brought me here. Howgh! You have my word.
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Dalswyn: [...]
3/ Between my previous post and this one, I lost 5 reputation points.
With this one, I lost [placeholder pending an edit :) ]
Ah, now I understand why I was seeing very reasonable posts made by people with negative reputation!
After the fall of the communism in Poland, being imprisoned by the previous regime was a mark of honour. So, wear your low score with pride! ;)