I hear ya :)

(btw: I meant more so people buying games and reading news articles....those parts of the site seem like they're geared towards[big buttons, bright colors, etc] and/or would work well enough[vs the forums anyways] with such devices)

No data for Latin America :'(

Honest to god, and all that i believe in.. I love that it's DRM Free, most of you won't believe it but on the 23rd of april, since i live in a place where there is alot of traffic a truck was passing by my street when it pulled our optic fiber cabel, until now the 28th of april i was able to get online. THIS IS A LIFE SAVER when it comes to actually starting a game and not needing the (always need to be online) BS is a god save, what i'm trying to say is that we should be able to play our games when we want and how we want. Atleast im a GOG.com client for life. Thank you GOG.

You can't track us. We track you. We are legion. We are nowhere and everywhere.

The problem seems to be that this got mixed with the usual corporate non-answer stuff and made things look worse than they really were. I understand corporations will not answer certain questions, and so things like a user having a ticket out longer than covid really upsets users who feel that the backlog for their CP2077 stuff could draw out a whole year. Worse yet for someone who made a more recent non-2077 purchase 'cause CP2077 stuff is naturally viewed as a priority. That sounds like an interesting way to fix things in situations where we effectively get catfished by a dev. I had a recent experience where this was going on in a game where a dev mislead it's customer base. Should've read the reviews, though. However, the reviews were chock full of people who were not pleased by this (no, it wasn't CP2077, either). A decent system for refunds that could address this could help prevent issues like the CP2077 one and the No Man's Sky thing from blowing up like they did again. Has gog ever considered waiving the monthly listing fee? I understand that not only is piracy a concern (i've talked to some devs and they do note that GOG versions are being pirated, even if DRM doesn't prevent piracy, it's worth noting that not all devs are logical in that way), but I've heard tell that devs are getting charged a fee to have their games on GOG even if no sales occur that month, making GOG a net loss for them, which would mean that any corporate devs would be forced to delist for legal reasons (fiduciary responsibility).

(my previous feedback)

Another bit of feedback:

Work with devs and pubs to fix your reputation for severely-delayed patches; if I bought new games, I probably wouldn't buy them here. Personally, when it comes to "second-class citizen" stuff, patches/fixes would be the most important to me (compared to missing multiplayer, achievements, etc. compared to Steam version)

Ah... ok.

Yeah, that's pretty hard to guess. Especially since offline-users need to download the game only once (unless there are patches) while Galaxy users tend to redownload any game they re-install.

Well, phuck. Even that is too low, 10% is probably closer to the truth, to be honest, considering there are so many very old GOG classics that I already played back in the day, and that "having played" may just mean I just ran a game for 10 minutes (not e.g. necessarily having finished all the games).

I guess I just wanted to add a dramatic effect to my original message.

No, by all means, I totally understand it's not easy in that regard. I was just thinking more in the line of how many one-time activated / started to downloading the offline files on the site vs those through Galaxy, sort of a download counter we saw on these early homepages... It wouldn't, again, tell the whole truth, but would be interesting nonetheless.

But thanks for answering and being candor about it.

I'm no expert in international laws / tax laws, but withing the EU/EEA I don't think it's that much of a deal, or even remotely difficult. I mean, the EU have treaties that allow, and to smooth the free-flow of work force and products between the countries. I imagine the UK would now be in a different situation right now. The Schengen treaty alone makes it possible for a person to travel passport-free between the countries (though, this "corona-situation" makes that even more difficult).

I know of people who have made their own one-man company and are essentially leasing themselves/company out to other companies and makes great money of it. In Norway this would mean that the company that are buying the first company's services would pay less taxes, and more responsibility would be on the other company (to keep books and affairs in order and pay taxes directly themselves).

Besides, paying normal tax (not employee-tax that the employer pays locally) to the other country would mean less money to health/sickness coverage, and pension in the "mother-land" (at least that's how we do it in Scandinavia).

And yes, I've seen a lot of these big companies giving out "carrots" for those willing to travel to another country. I was even a little tempted to move to Ireland to work in IBM or even to Spain as a consultant, but being tied to my gf, house and family effectively made that impossible. If only I were younger and "untied"... ;)



EDIT: GREAT! After 15 minutes I only now realized that the forum refuses to accept those three last characters in my language... *facepalm*.

Galaxy is a horrible way to back-up installers, especially if you have lots of games. But as long gogrepo keeps working, I'm happy :)

It would be great if any of the blues would shed some light on these matters.
Are there any plans in place for improving the forums? Or should we expect more of the same in the future? Take for instance the broken notification status, that "purple ball" as it was called a while back.
Also, regarding the status of the offline installers, will they get the same level of attention/maintenance as Galaxy does? In other words, will they be up to par and updated constantly or are we to expect an inferior product (see delays, changelogs, etc.)
Finally, are we going to see Galaxy under Linux as well?

SJW censorship that's acting outside the forums code of conduct is going to annoy a lot more gog users.