how dare you gog, try and emulate that antiseptic covered festering SJW shithole.

"Critique responsibly: it's positive or don't post, A great review should be positive and informative."
What the heck are you talking about?

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Those seemed perfectly reasonable demands to me. GOG's still a store and as such has the obligation to keep things professional, which includes review sections that serve to help potential buyers to make up their minds. I don't see a problem with them subjecting reviews to a fairly common sense quality control process. GOG's under no obligation to provide people with their own personal soapbox or give them an opportunity to show the rest of the world that they're an idiot. The rest of the world doesn't really care.

A clone of Steam? I wish I could downvote or upvote someone's posts on the Steam forum! /s

I think that reviews should be able to be bad. Stating your opinion of the product is the whole point of reviewing. Sometimes the opinion is negative. Same with the star rating, we can rate something five stars, but we can also rate it one star.

That said, the rules say nothing about the review having to be positive. Other points I actually fully agree with. Why should game reviews include politics? Why should they be about something other than the game itself?

The guidelines didn't say reviews couldn't be bad. They just said that IF you had issues, they had to be related to the game itself. There's a big difference between a one-star review that says: "I wanted to like this game, but the game controls are extremely sluggish and the camera tends to jump to awkward angles at the worst possible moments. There are also many trial-and-error parts where a moment of bad luck sends you back to the last checkpoint 10 minutes ago." and a one-star review that says: "This game sucks." or "Bought on day 1, game crashed twice, got no apology from the creator, demanded a refund." or "No Linux version."

The first example says literally nothing about why a game is bad and just makes the reviewer look shallow, the second one might be irrelevant a day or two after the first release upon game getting patched and the third one is just the reviewer being pissed that his favorite OS isn't supported and downvotes the game purely for that.

"Politics" has a broad meaning here. "The game's creator said something bad to me one day, so I'm 1 starring his game on this site" isn't directly political, but "politics" in this game applies because the review is useless to anyone who doesn't share the reviewer's personal pet hates and is just looking for reviews to get a better picture of the game's strong and weak points.

Examples of "political" reviews is a review of some of the Ys games where this one guy made a review saying "These games were stolen by the publisher. Don't buy them." (XSeed paid the guy who made the fan translation of some of the games to put his translation in the official release, but didn't pay his hacker buddy because they had the developer's official translation kit and didn't need his unofficial extraction tools, so the hacker buddy cried thievery)

Another example of "political" reviews is a review of Towerfall saying "One of the player skins is loosely based on Anita Sarkeesian. If you play it you will turn into a SJW-zombie and fund the SJW-movement!!!" I'm exaggerating here, but you get the point. :P

A game review doesn't have to say stuff like "This game is crap. Like Hillary. Vote Trump." to be political.

All of what you said sounds reasonable and fair. Game reviews should be about the quality of said games.

One thing I would take issue with, is if a game positions itself as educational in some regard, and instead is teaching wrong facts. Even if it doesn't affect gameplay, I would probably want to mention it in my review.

THE OP IS CRAZY!

BTW what do you think of the new GOG logo?

yep it is. gog is going downwards and it looks like this won't change in the near future.

seems like i missed something
dunno what
anybody got the cliffnotes ?

other then that tinyP is back with us again

Don't be crazy!

Steam's client works.
What would you need an upvote button for in the Steam forums?

Aww, he's so cute. Can we keep him, TinyE?

I don't know. First I have ti figure out what the hell he meant.

So my alt accounts can upvote me, of course.