javier0889: What, you mean the forums or the social things? Why would you want to use that? Are you there for the games or for something that's one step away from Facebook?
siddham: Indeed why would people want to participate in forums and such things
like this forum for instance
I mean why?
obviously you would never lower yourself to participate in a form
javier0889: What, you mean the forums or the social things? Why would you want to use that? Are you there for the games or for something that's one step away from Facebook?
Starmaker: Are you
here for the games or for something that's one step away from Facebook?
(Seriously, there's a facebook link at the bottom of this page. We're all doomed. Apparently.)
The number one thing are the games, yes. The equivalent of me posting here is pretty much wasting time, and to a certain degree I'm ok with that. It's my time after all. But people often use the "community" as if meant something other than a marketing buzzword for people upstairs. I don't care about the community, and there's nothing about gog's community that makes it more relevant for anyone than Steam's. I even have little to no interest in multiplayer, actually. It's certainly .... *weird* to say "the community" is something that makes this or that place special. Modders and people like that are different, but still only a handful of people who weren't even related to GOG or Steam to begin with. And actually I'm quite sure you'll find many people with all the intention of sitting down to tell you how GOG, Steam and others "interrupted" their work when it comes to mods for old games. Ask a few people on the Abandonware sites about their opinion too. You'll have fun, I'm sure.
When it comes to datamining, I'm sure people are overreacting here. It's not like GOG sold their souls to the devil or something like that, because (guess what) GOG is still a business at the end of the day. However, in the grand scheme of things, being born in the only pre-requisite to be datamined. Everyone has your adress, be it physical or digital. Actually, there are several human rights organizations who want to make the internet free and your identity to be secret to everyone, and I do mean everyone, but as I said, the mere fact that you agree to use a computer means you are ok with sharing your information with companies, who in turn will use it as they see fit.You've never really wondered where the spam comes from? Now you know, I guess, they are coming from all the sites you willingly give your information to. And it's certainly weird for me to see people supporting stuff these days... I mean, ten years ago every community worked on the basis of piracy. Like "I hope this gets pirated so I get to use it". Now everyone wants to pay. "I hope this person sells me this stuff so I can give them my info and everything about me! Isn't it nice to support content creators :)!". What happened?
