BreOl72: Therefore it's very funny to read
(either in this thread, or elsewhere) from people admitting that they are boycotting GOG, but with in the same breath claim, that they don't want to harm GOG.
;) (this is to YOU and to EVERYBODY who brings this "by changing your spending habits here you are
HURTING this platform")
How about:
"We don't want to finance company that started doing things we don't agree with"?
Also, "hurting financially"?
Our money isn't alimony and GOG isn't some sort of our abandoned kid.
"Hurt financially" means forfeiting giving money someone SHOULD get, the money they are in some way entitled to.
In WHAT WAY is GOG entitled to our money in your opinion?
We aren't investors having stakes in said company (I guess majority of us anyway, tho I can speak mostly for myself).
We aren't some parent / investment-company saying "oh, you acted badly so you won't get your chump change this month that we PROMISED you".
We are CUSTOMERS.
GOG is in NO WAY entitled to our money.
We are not OBLIGATED to spend money here.
There is no "
we SHOULD be giving them money"!
GOG getting money from us is their PRIVILAGE, not anything they are ENTITLED to have.
You are making it sound like spending money here is THE neutral state whereas not doing so is "negative behaviour" / "hurting them financially".
NO.
NOT spending money is neutral state. While spending money here is a form of SUPPORTING this platform.
This is a STORE, a privately own BUSINESS *fOunded* NOT from the money we spend here!
THAT, is a STORE, (kudos to anyone recognising a certain meme here) NOT Patreon(*TM) nor crowdfunding platform!
As a customer you can have most fundamentally 2 types of spend on a platform / marketplace (be it digital or physical, doesn't matter):
1.Things you buy because you want / need - purchases for (yours truly or someone elses [for example giftee of yours]) personal gain
2.Things you DON'T actually need but you want to support the underlying merchant - this is a sort of investment in PLATFORM TRUST. But this isn't just one sided - you don't just trust the platform to give them more money than they otherwise need, no - you trust the merchant / platform that they will SPEND THAT MONEY WISELY.
You don't do the 2nd bit for a company that appears shady to you.
You don't support low standards convenience store like that.
You just don't.
The cold calculation is simple here:
You join a merchant's territory.
You obtain a product.
Some time passes, maybe you obtained some more products, you seem to like the merchant.
You feel like you want the merchant to SUCCEED and DO BETTER therefore you decide to dump into it MORE MONEY THAN YOU OTHERWISE NORMALLY WOULD for the sake of just satisfying your own desires / needs.
At some point or another the merchant starts doing things you don't agree with.
Remeber:
You are not his BANK.
You are not his INVESTOR.
You are not his FOUNDER.
Your income is NOT his ORIGINAL financing source, it's merely INCOME for possible EXPANSION of services in his business.
The part of strategic funding ISN'T your money. You don't prepay for a product and wait for it to be brought to you.
You don't walk into a convenience store with a bill in your hand to buy a sack of tomatoes only for the seller to get your pennies and tell you to wait a week until he outsources it.
THIS isn't this kind of business estabilishment.
The products are already on the shelves.
You walk into the convenience store with a bill in your hand, you get to an industrial refrigerator, grab a cup of instant noodles, go to a cashier, tell employee "NO, I DON'T want the plastic bag" while listening to some profoundly bizzare vegetable song, you pay, and OFF you go, you're OUT.
Ergo: you get in, the product is ALREADY THERE, you pay, you're OUT.
You are not paying the merchant to get THAT VERY STOCK you went to buy. THAT was *already paid for* by someone ELSE THAN YOU.
The store already made their own decision to buy certain amount of stock and if you don't buy there you don't "HURT" the store. If anything you can support it by buying. But by not buying you are just neutral bystander and have NOTHING to do with said store's financial / stock decisions.
Do you think this is so OUTRAGEOUSLY UNJUSTIFIED to back off from supporting somebody / business that started to go downhill and now does things you don't personally agree with?
"Oh this convenience store has lowered standards and they are now selling expired products, I don't agree with that but I will continue buying here because I am a devoted fan of this shop"?
People who TRULY CARE are usually also the ones that see the ENTIRE picture and just just what the place does well.
Those are not BLINDLY LOYAL nor the kind to let just ANY shit slide.
THIS isn't proxy seller. This is no dropshipping service either.
This is a STORE that already obtained the products and would have them regardless if we would pay or not.
In fact the very fact of this here place being fully DIGITAL-only store makes it even more special.
See, this here isn't like with a convenience store where more income allows merchant to buy more stock and if they want to reduce their risk they can reduce their stock delivery amount.
GOG has to pay for their infrastructure EITHER WAY regardless if ANYONE buys ANYTHING. It's a PREPAY. And that money isn't coming from US.
WE are not source of THIS part of their finances.
In fact buying here, mere acting of buying a product and having it available for you to download at ANY GIVEN TIME from ANY PLACE is costing GOG additional BANDWIDTH as well as various costs of POSSIBLE (for you to be ABLE to do that at ANY time) infrastructure additional load.
Even merely having more DEMOS on your account already costs them MORE in POSSIBLE costs.
If 1000 people would decide to download one same game demo all at once it would cost GOG MONEY even tho they got NO MONEY FROM *US* for the product.
And that's ok. Because SOMEONE ELSE THAN US already paid for the possibility, and storage of said demo on GOG's infrastructure.
It's:
A.Investors
B.Mother company original funding source
And THIS has NOTHING to do with OUR spending.
In fact one could argue that NOBODY REALLY KNOWS how much money stays within GOG and how much leaves to the mother company CDPR Group.
Financial documentation that is PUBLIC isn't very clear on the matter.
For all I know CDPR Group could for example get 100% cut of CDPR owned games sold on GOG with GOG itself getting none.
The "100% of your money stays within
CDPR Group" may in fact be a very clever trick to underfinance GOG store.
But that's just a theory.
With no proof just like there is no proof what real exact cut GOG itself gets from sales of CDPR produced games.
WE are NOT the ones financing this platform. Regardless if people reduce their spend here this company stays afloat. It is infact under an umbrella mother corp and gets money from there regardless.
The ORIGINAL FUNDING SOURCE is NOT US!
It's investors.
We are not investors.
We are in no way OBLIGATED to spend money here.
It's a privilage for GOG to get our money, NOT something to take for GRANTED.
Anyone implying we are HURTING this company by boycotting things we don't agree with, trying not to add into financial pile for possible expansion of things we don't agree with, is in incredibly deep DENIAL or a total misguided IGNORANT.
We are not charity either.
This is business.
We are not obligated to support this platform if we no longer like what it is doing.
We (at least majority, tho again, I can only really speak for myself) are not some blind fanboys who are going to put up with just about ANYTHING while saying "you are hurting me but I love you so here's your darn coins" with teary eyes.
NO.
I don't like where this company is headed.
I don't like how it keeps tuning their augmented eyes * to not see the problems NOR community feedback. (* is a certain callback to my certain sarcastic remark about a certain thing in regards to CP2077 from another thread from several months ago)
I refuse to put up with it. Therefore I reduced my spend to a rock bottom none, it doesn't mean I will spend NOTHING here EVER, it means I no longer see ANY POINT in it UNTIL they fix their mistakes, THEN I may reconsider.
In fact I haven't bought here anything in 387 days.
Like I said before, I don't boycott BECAUSE OF this thread.
And anybody saying to my face that I "hurt" this company by doing this would get a sarcastic smirk and a "Kawaisō" type of laugh from me.
BreOl72: to boycott a business means to harm that business. Period.
To boycott means to try to bring the boycotted entity to notice and fix their mistakes. Period.
If said entity is stubborn and refuses then they won't get any more support in whatever originally carried out form by the boycotting personas.
SUPPORT isn't the "default". DOING NOTHING is THE default.
Therefore:
buying == supporting
but, not buying =/= hurting.
BreOl72: See - people have to learn that they can't have their cake AND eat it.
That's right. GOG cannot both get our money and pull this shady crap at the same time. One or the other.
That's why people boycott. Because they are not hypocrites who would support something they won't agree with.
