Ever wondered, when the day will come, when we log into GOG, only to find the Community menu slightly changed?

I mean, from GOG's perspective, the forum must be a constant PITA.
Nothing but complaints, full of spammers,...reducing the offer will kinda be a logical step.

Don't be giving GOG any ideas please.

I open the forum by default too. The fact that news are still at the very bottom of the main page renders it basically useless to me.

That being said, I would definitely notice if the forums just suddenly disappeared. They're a disaster on wheels held together by paperballs drenched in spit, but it's our disaster and I don't want to see them gone :P

It would be an improvement tbh :D

I would probably start using the GOG reddit more.

Maybe buy from GOG less but I don't know about that one.

Having been around the internet for a long time, I've seen a lot of forums and services come and go. It is the way of things.

It'll be a sad day when I can no longer shitpost here.

I think some people over-focus on a few negative posts so much that's all they end up seeing. Merely browsing the first two pages (100 threads) right now, there's a ton of Forum Games, "what are you reading", "Games / Books finished in 2023", generous giveaway threads, etc. Many "complaining" posts are actually asking for help with an issue and many of us do help them out week after week, year after year both in this General Forum and 10x more in the game specific forums. Take that away, and there'd be a lot more filing of support tickets. (Add up all the thousands of "This question / problem has been solved by..." posts there have been over the years, and I doubt what GOG spends on the forums is more than the cost of having to hire more support staff to deal with the increase in support tickets due to killing off free (for GOG) peer support.

Likewise for those who think it's a good idea, I hope you're volunteering to take-over the duties of the regulars here maintaining half a dozen "What did just update", giveaway tracking, DRM testing, OS compatibility testing, price change tracking, changelog reposting, ciemnogrodzianin's endlessly useful sale summary, etc, threads as well as match the sheer generosity of Doc0075 alone, as I don't see many on Reddit or Discord putting in half the effort some forum members do here despite regular unconvincing claims of being "better" places to hang out. ;-)

And hey, wouldn't funnelling traffic onto GOG and keeping it here be healthier since it'd encourage people to spend more?

A healthy community would also foster one of the few remaining places where it feels like such a thing is appreciated, instead of faceless matchmaking lobbies.

I had a nightmare last night...

I agree. I feel like I see more posts mentioning the negativity here on the forums than I actually see negative posts.

Our dream was a "wet" one...

I also open by default the forum page. If the forum did not exist, i would visit less gog and buy less.

Too late. Not sure if serious, but...I'm pretty sure, you'd definitely notice, if a 404 is all that pops up after clicking on your bookmark. It would probably help GOG to bundle its manpower/resources to the actual core business. Yepp. Definitely.

It sure depends on which threads one looks into. I'll give you that.

Sorry, but that doesn't really make much sense, since you don't buy from the forum, but from the store.

New games are announced on the forum and I get an email when games on my wishlist are discounted. I rarely visit the front page.