Is it me or is this community becoming less likely to take a joke? lol

Maybe we should spam the Russian general discussions with forum games? oO

It's been like this since 2008. :) I don't see GOG making changes to this anytime soon. A lot of people have been confused by this design decision, and don't seem to realize that this actually is an "Everything That Doesn't Fit in a Subforum for a Specific Game/Series" forum.

I personally can see where a few extra subforums would be nice, but since the forums have been in pretty much this same state for 7 years now, I somehow don't think it's a staff priority. That's not the users' fault, so it's no use for the OP to fuss at us. We are, in fact, using this forum as intended.

The general discussion area of a video game store's forum is serious business pal! Treat this forum like you would your job or a funeral, or don't bother showing up at all bucko!

Aye and a kilt is a skirt, a load of shite! ;)

So basically I'm supposed to drink insane amounts of coffee, slack off, make others do all the work, hit on every cute chick and cheerily tell everyone "you're next"...?

If that's what you do on funerals normally... Well, yes!


ps. Especially the "You're next" part is a blast on every funeral oO

I'm up for that! lol

See, this right here is why a subforum for people who want the games and giveaways would be ideal. And generosity isn't universally positive, it has tradeoffs in the form of wasted time and useless threads. This is why giveaways are banned in e.g. the Terraria forum on Reddit. Leeching off giveaways is an extremely inefficient source of income.

And no, gifting to each other isn't "generosity" -- it's a hobby, arguably a fun one, arguably one that should be enabled by the staff and infrastructure here on GOG.

Hell, today is my birthday. Most offices where I worked have birthday gift customs: the worker buys cakes/pies/pizza and everyone else donates money for a small gift (the rest of the collected money is presented as money). (If it's a boss's birthday, the boss provides more food, alcohol, non-alcoholic alternatives, and all the collected money is spent on a substantial gift.) Now, I'm not a boss, but due to my culture/beliefs, there's a whole range of common gifts I cannot accept and a whole range of birthday wishes that are at best insensitive and at worst super fucking offensive. And I'm very thankful to the secretary who bought me an awesome gift and made sure no one said anything dumb. That was really awesome of her. But people giving me cash is not generous, it's just custom.

edit: thank you for being the voice of reason in the story thread.

So basically you want to evict all the squatters from their kingdom..
I don't like the idea, I love the way it is now, even if I don't agree with some threads.

A separate subforum might work, though such sub forums here tend to be rather empty. I would not say giveaways are a couse of wasted time and useless threads. That's a very subjective view. I could say the same about threads about sports or something. All in all I think it's best to learn to live with the general forum as it is, than trying to quarantine everything we ourselves find pointless. The end result would only be getting bogged down in too many sub forums and a decrease in forum activity.

It might be a hobby for some, others may just do it once every blue moon or only once ever, prompted by some special occasion or something. It can, and often is, just a random generous act towards a specific person or the community here in general.

Happy birthday! :)

Thanks, I appreciate it.

You have been playing some Bioshock, I see. :P

Not this year, but it does have a lasting effect. :D

Yeah, I was rather bewildered at first. The main problem I have with it is that worthwhile threads can sink into oblivion in no time as the pace of this forum is so high. A lack f other subfora means that the users who aren't "forum omnivores" will have to sift through a lot of filler to get to the threads of interest to them.