Your library can be backed up and is in no way tied to GOG. It is in no danger whatsoever. If you're not interested in doing that and consider your games permanently tied to the service- that's on you, and I really don't know why you'd buy a single game here in the first place.

Anyway, you can't expect other customers to remain patrons of a store they are dissatisified with for your sake. That's insane.

Finally, as I said above, there is no logical scenario in which this boycott causes GOG to go out of business. That's also insane.

You know what I honestly think.

I'm tired, I'm tired of all this shit when it comes gaming. I'm tired of the controversies, I'm tired of gamer outrage, I'm tired of the politics and ethics involved, I'm tired of seeing everything I cherished burned to ashes.

And I'm tired of hearing the samething that its all the developers and publishers fault and gamers are blameless and not entitled.

I just want to play the games I want and have a safe and secure access to them. Like I still have Arma 2 DRM Free in my GOG account, and if they go, so goes that DRM free version of the game for me.

I've suffered through this with Resident Evil, I suffered through this with Blizzard, I suffered through this with Total War games, I've suffered through this with everything for the past 15 years in gaming.

And now I am just fucking sick of it all. And yearn for the good old days when people just want to play games and not bitch about EA, Activision, and now CDProjeckt RED on Forums and Reddits and Twitters and Youtubers spamming me with how bad gaming is with thier obnoxious clickbait thumbnails.

I'm sorry mate, bu you're being hysterial and irrational. You outright refuse to address any serious point anyone is making (including the fact that you cellection is in no danger), and you seem to be conflating the issues brought up here with some various inane twitter hysterias. I understand being tired with the vapid bullshit and made up outrage internet is so good at manufacturing, but is not it. GOG has done a ton of quite simply unethical things. And some poeple are fed up. That's not "clickbait".

And I'm sorry to say this, but if anyone here is acting "entitled" it's you when you're demanding others to not act on their principles, to not hold a company accauntable for anything, because it might ruin your fun.

When will it end though? For me it never seems to end because it feels like an endless cycle right now.

Will we ever regain any trust and reconciliation with anything in the gaming industry?

Mabye not so long as all this continues in perpetuity. I sometimes feel like this is a hopeless thing and there is no solution to all the problems that brought about things like Devotion not being here and Cyberpunk being a mess.

It's not that I'm not considering it. I'm sure you are correct that the underlying cause of their recent unpopular decisions is that they have grown too big and are now part of a large public corporation, which values short-term profit above all else. However, I consider it irrelevant to my boycott. I strongly dislike many of GOG's recent decisions and I am not going to continue supporting their store unless they change course. The underlying reasons for those decisions are just not relevant to me. Why should I care?

I don't agree with those (not necessarily you) that imply we should give GOG a free pass because 'they are a big corporation now, and this is just how big corporations behave'. Imo, even large corporations should listen to and respect their customers and uphold certain core values they may have built their businesses on in the first place.

Yes, they have a tough decision to make. That's life.

Bingo! I find the suggestion that GOG would bend their knee immediately when their access to one country's market is threatened, but wouldn't comply with boycott demands if their entire business was at risk of going under to be rather ridiculous.

They have literally just shown us they will bend quickly, if their bottom line is put under enough pressure.

Well, it probably is. GOG were the 'good guys'. They grew. They turned bad. Time to look for another small store that still has some principles. (zoom-platform) Until they grow too and maybe turn bad too. Then move on. Repeat.

It's not too bad. GOG had a good run that lasted quite a while. Looking for a new store every 10 years is bearable. After all, we all had the possibility to back up our offline installers so that we won't lose them when GOG makes Galaxy mandatory for running their games.

Like what exactly ?

Refusing to sell a game, considering that optional cosmetic content requiring a connection is not DRM, promoting their client, or even not removing a game from sales after four years just because of a recently added optional mission is online only, is in no way "unethical".

You might disagree with it, you might consider it's worth to boycott them because of it, but calling it "unethical" is silly.

Its not just them, its all gaming. No one likes the big deal developers anymore these days because they all fucked up.

And what makes you think Zoom won't go downhill to. Go to the next, and the next while burning bridges of the last one?

I'm sympathetic with Time4Tea but I'm not going to boycott. GoG is the least worse when it comes to game stores so there isn't really any viable alternative with a good selection of games.

The push for Galaxy is part of a larger global trend. We see it everywhere, for example in my country banks are constantly trying to make banking apps mandatory. It' s really annoying being forced into closed gardens and apps offering no real value. These are simply marketing tools disguised as handy or mandatory value adding elements in your life while being far from it.

Mabye not those things, but the crunching of the working developers is unethical

Absolutely spot on.

I understand much of your frustrations...
But :
You do not sound as much of a game collector to me if that's your opinion..
I have a serious collection of games and software and it takes up I do not know how many giant 'maxi tower' cardboard boxes, movers boxes and big scanner cardboard boxes...

I find the 'digital distribution' so great and especially because it also eliminates the use of CD and DVD (also you sound as you never had a cracked CD/DVD) . Now I can legally have my games collection on a hard disk drive (at least my GOG collection), it takes up very little space compared to the physical stuff and most of the time it is easier to find without having to traverse through I do not know how many big cardboard boxes...

I do agree however that the "need for online" is pain when required and also there ought to be a repository where all our stuff is even after GOG is no more if !

Oh I get that, I ABSOLUTELY get it.

Do you know how much I hate it when I buy a used game off of Amazon and the disc shows up as not functional because its too dirty or scratched up? (Who the hell are handling these discs? Animals?)

But I still find something that's purely digital...even more fragile. Like they can go away if say the machine its being used on its not functional, or the servers that host the product to download it is rendered offline (looks at the Nintendo Wii E-shop) or if you lost your machine and such.

Or you run into a situation where you run out of space on your Hardrive or SSD and have to delete things in order to make space for new ones.

The thing to understand is that companies are companies, not charity, or moral crusaders.

They do what they need to survive, and, despite what some peoples seems to thing, not just to please their shareholders or clueless board members but also for their employees sake.

Peoples often forget that having principle is nice when you are behind your keyboard at home and the biggest risk is you no longer purchasing a couple of video games, but when staying true to your principles can cost the livelihood of tens or hundreds of your employee then decision is a lot harder to make.

I am pretty sure that if someday Gog really decide to drop the DRM-free principle it won't be because Marcin or other have been corrupted by money or because of evil shareholders but simply because they consider that it's the only for Gog to survive. (I wold stop purchasing from them if they do though)

That is true for Gog, Zoom, or any company, unless of course the boss of said company is billionaire, does it as a hobby and doesn't need said company to be profitable.