If you delete your account, you will miss all future patches for games you've bought.

i wish he could transfer those games to us :P

he is right ,but not with deleting gog account , that wont achieve anything

This.

Just stop buying or at least stop buying preferably here.

I recommend the full story.

GoG has always been my favorite place to get games. I felt that as a platform they actually listened

I am no longer young and naïve, and the sands of time have made me more cynical. I am also a digital marketer and understand that at the end of the day, GoG is a business. As such, they have taken some serious missteps and their core message seems convoluted atm. I hope that good sense prevails and they figure out a way to return to their business values. As it stands now, GoG looks like it is becoming just another gaming platform. I hope that their management pays heed and does some damage control soon.

I still think that GoG has the best gaming community, and at the end of the day it is they who can make a difference.

My values will always be:

1)DRM-free first and I am not going to purchase any games with DRM from GoG.
2) Censorship free content (don't want games to be region-locked).

Yes, Steam sales are certainly way better but I'd choose the DRM free version where possible.

The thing is, if you really want to no longer support companies bowing down to china then I really hope you are ready to live as en hermit and grow your own food because all of them does.

Yes Gog handled that very poorly and I still cannot fathom how they could even manage to do something so dumb, but at the end of the day, not doing X or Y to not anger China is something that every single multi-national companies did at one time or another, and worse, most countries.

Did Australian administration ask GOG to ban Hotline Miami 2 in Australia? I mean, China is asking GOG to ban Devotion not just in China, but in Australia as well.

That's what is infuriating, and worse, the nerve to tell us that "gamers" made them do it.

First off, I'm not deleting my account, as I've already paid for the games in my library. That said, I am seriously considering just sticking with Steam for the same reasons as the OP.

I've always preferred to buy games on GOG despite Steam prices for our country being MUCH better, because they sell DRM-free games. Now they've started, um, "encouraging" users to move away from DRM-free installers to the Galaxy client with Galaxy-exclusive "freebies" on CP2077. And then the straight up lie about "gamers" requesting to block Devotion from getting released.

Steam is very, very far from perfect, but they give much better prices (at least in our region), much better Linux support, built-in support for console controllers , much better online features, and a much larger library of games, along with being the priority PC platform for most developers in terms of releasing patches, among other things. I've known all these things before, but I've put up with GOG because of their DRM-free stance. I'm not so sure if I'm willing to continue doing that anymore.

The problem is much deeper than the DRM free policy. It shows that GoG does not stand by its business values and that is why customers are less likely to trust the platform if they continue.

Steam has never really claimed to be anything else.

To cite an analogy, it's like a girl meeting a jerk who is unapologetic about it vs a nice-guy who pretends to be nice just because he wants to get into her pants. She can see through this and it disgusts her.

So, yes, get real.

I can understand blocking games from a particular country: it's your country that banned it. I'm certainly against that, but it's not gog's decision at that point. This is a whole new can of worms: this is like saying "i don't want my son to look at porn, so yours can't either." Except, it's not porn, it's winnie the pooh... or, rather, not even that... The pooh is gone...

While I won't do anything as drastic as deleting my account, I have severely pruned my wishlist.
I do need to use up my wallet funds after all.
Which is going to be harder going forward, since they won't even allow me to use the redeem page anymore.

I was only slightly interested in Cyberpunk 2077, but seeing as it's the same crappy "gameplay" elements as in most modern cross-platform action interactive movie-games, I wasn't too surprised, but still disappointed nonetheless.

What does grind my gears though is censorship and DRM.
Bowing down to China, pushing Galaxy..
The abysmal state of the store and the forums are just the dredge at the bottom of the barrel.

I will seriously adjust my compass and sail as to what games I need to buy here in the future.

Nothing wrong with your post but I would like to point out that the stated article is not relevant at this time.
See attached picture just printed from Steam's hardware survey.

Still a metric ton of cash worth of players.

Not related to OP but I'm looking foward to what Steam's China only client will do to hardware survey stats, even if the client is internet cafe only.

I'm not sure that GOG management realize how dependent they are on the goodwill of their core userbase. They're not Actiblizz, they don't have multiple exclusive games that millions are addicted to. They don't even have exclusivity on CDPR games. They're desperately trying to push Galaxy as a Steam competitor, and after this past week, I have no doubt they're willing to sell out even their core principle of selling DRM-free games. In fact, they already have. So I'm done. Whatever games I was going to buy on GOG, I'll get them on Steam or elsewhere instead, just out of spite. Clearly it doesn't make a difference, since I'm buying from opportunistic vultures without principles either way.