Like I said before. Steam (Valve) was ok with censorship with games and even not allowing games to be distributed because of being offensive (remember the HATRED shitstorm?).

It was only after they started to remove visual novels, they received a HUGE backlash that was quite the PR nightmare, so they quickly backpedaled.

Depression Quest release imminent?

(Obligatory wishlist link. Can't be worse than Outlast 2...)

You must remember that GOG and it's PR/Twitter office tend to work independently.

I'm upset with the situation but will continue buying here. I will not lump the entire company into one group, like what the SJW jourbos did to gamers back in the day.

Excuses, excuses.

GOGcom chooses to live by the sword, it can die by the sword.

I didn't see cdpr/gog even trying to do damage control on this one, while it hurts its just a sign of things to come. Might as well accept the truth and avoid getting betrayed in the future.

CDPR nor CDP has no real say in this as while GOG is owned by the same parent company they work independently.

I just want to avoid a mob mentality so this wont devolve into just being angry for the hell of it. Though it seems most of the trolls and derailers have crumbled out of this thread.

I don't think anyone here's angry, I think we're annoyed sure, but not angry. I think people really have misunderstood us Gamergaters. We're not the hatemob people think we are. We're just annoyed, disappointed, expected better, almost apathetic (aka I just wanted to play vidya).

I think we're still on target though, the talk is still about how GOG.com messed up and how we want to see a change for the positive in future communications. AKA not running off to some backalley games forum to apologise. Why this PR rep thought this was a smart move I don't know, I think that did even more damage than the initial apology because they didn't show up here to apologise, they went to an entirely separate community to do so. So its suspicious as hell.

The only things i will say about this topic is:
Dont step into politics its never good.
And if you do:
Never apologize to a SJW or a Journalist. - They will smell blood and go for the kill. And even if you do... They will still hate you.
SJW and Journalists are not customers. - This have been proved many times where SJW and journalists try to create a hate storm towards a person or game and then fail to have any impact what so ever. Hint Kingdom Come or when Anita recommended games on steam and there was like 1 person that bought the game.

Here's the thing, and proof of it includes the whole PC Master Race flap...

GoG isn't really this "standard" corporation. You look at most of the people who work for them and they all seem to be gamers. But this is also the problem with their PR...

Whoever came up with the PC Master Race thing or this Postal 2 DLC Tweet, showed they were in touch with gamers. Both were funny, both were hip.

The problem is that these are gamers are not people who really understand PR. They should have realized there was going to be some pushback. The Tweet was pissing on games journalism after all. It was pretty obvious the same Faux journalists who put together the "Gamers are Dead" articles were going to be upset and respond.

Knowing this, GoG should have done one of two things...
1) Not post a Tweet so obviously against these magazines. I mean, if you are really worried about backlash from those who review your service, it's a pretty off-colored joke...or...
2) Have a prepared response for it, something like...

Postal 2 is an irreverent game which makes light of a wide variety of people. It's not our fault you guys can't take a joke or laugh at yourselves. Sorry, but all we have to say is buy the game have fun! We can virtually guarantee everyone will be somehow offended by something in it! Journalist or basement-dwelling gamer alike!

Or in other words, stick to their guns and laugh it off. Especially since the whole thing is a direct reference to gaming magazines and not "Gamergate". Don't let these jerks shift the real blame from themselves. There were the people attacking gamers claiming the typical gamer still lives in their parent's basement among other insults. They were the fools that made themselves irrelevant.

By now I would have expexted to see a concerted effort by online gaming media with several articles like this:

"Online video game retailers are over."

"The death of the online video game retailers and the game who killed them."

"A guide to ending online video game retailers."

"Gaming Is leaving online video game retailers behind."

"Sexism, misogyny, and online attacks: It's a horrible time to consider yourself an online video game retailer."

"It's dangerous to go alone: Why Are online video game retailers So Angry?"

"The end of online video game retailers."

"Online video game retailers don't have to be your audience."

"This guy's embarassing pissing drama is killing the 'online video game retailers' identity."

PS: Actually the headlines sound quite horrible I wonder how any journalist could have released those articles back then without knowing there would be a hell of a backlash.

VG24/7 who started this sh'tstorm
http://deepfreeze.it/outlet.php?o=vg247
>Participated in the “Gamers are dead” media blitz
https://archive.is/hd8en

so, why even care what an anti-gamer gamenews outlet has to say?
And as more i look into the person who made it viral (kirk mckeand - Deputy Editor at vg24/7) with the help of his gamejournopro friends and sockpuppets, it turns out he is very anti gamer and has a problem with 'males':
https://archive.is/ZgOy9

it is also funny to notic, he already knew about le epic evil gamer gators the moment it begun, and framed them as evil without any reason, well, the reason came later with the smear/smoke screen of the media:
https://archive.is/kA076

It is pretty clear, this person is in for no good and actually a bad choice when it comes down to video games. (wow, what a news flash) and nobody can tell me that the gog team (pr guy) didn't know about the standpoint of those journos.
On top of that, someone from the gog team please answer me this:
Since when is it normal to go on other boards, in the name of a whole company, and not make a public letter or use it's own board? Why did the PR guy used his privat resetera account for a this? This is everything else than professional. And last question, why such strong support for a anti-gamer group and so much silence for the actually customers?

Good morning to everyone except hwite mail "gamerz", the truscum of the Earth.

Congratulations, GOG. You not only got dragged down to their level, you gave them a victory.

Watch as they latch on to you like ravenous hyenas, kill you with a thousand snapping bites, then proceed to drag your corpse all over their own filth & urinate on it.

You guys have been outdoing yourself with your intercourse-ups & I can honestly say that I am eagerly expecting you to top this one. I have no idea how you'll do it & I'm not entirely certain it is possible, but I have faith in you.

Purchasing that external drive to backup the games after the profile fiasco may have been one of the very few smart decisions I made in my life. I urge most GOG customers to do the same - BACKUP YOUR INSTALLERS!

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I agree with your post but keep in mind the Postal 2 image was political. It had the specific date and phrasing on it that identified it with the GamerGate movement, which has political connotations. Their decision to apologize and remove it was more a business decisions, as you don't want to be tied publicly to a known hate group (whether that group is known as a hate group fairly or not).

In other words there's multiple factors going on here. I get as annoyed as the next guy when Polygon or Waypoint do one of their whiny political articles about a simple game. I see the overwhelmingly obvious bias on RockPaperShotgun's ArenaNet firing article for example. I get why that shit annoys people. However I also get why a business like GOG should stay out of it, and when they accidentally jump into it (with the Postal tweet) I get why they pull the parachute cord and GTFO.