Elmofongo: You guys are threatening my 600+ game library I have on GOG with this boycott.
Breja: You mean the library of offline installers you can safely back up and that's the whole point? I think you'll be fine.
Three points I'd like to make:
1) I agree with Breja. Part of the point of DRM-free is not being tied to one particular service. I know 600 games are a lot to back up, but you could prioritize the games you value most and back those up first. There are other options besides hard drives - physical media, cloud storage on a different service, for example. If you backup a few games at a time, you can gradually chip through it.
2) Backing up your installers anyway is a good thing to do. Even if GOG don't go under, part of the reason for this boycott is a concern that, the way they seem to be going, they may at some point remove the offline installers entirely. If that ever happens, then you would be much more tied to GOG and their client to access your games.
3) This boycott is not calling for GOG to fail. I like GOG and I want to continue buying games here in the future. But, I strongly dislike the direction the store is going in with their recent decisions and I see this as a way to send a message and try to apply some pressure to get them to change course, before things get even worse.
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Updated first post to post #480.
51 people boycotting (with 12 sympathisers). Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far. I hadn't expected we would get this many and its encouraging to see there are others who also feel GOG is moving in the wrong direction with their recent decisions.