HunchBluntley: You're going to have to explain how anything in this post (or to do with the event it's promoting) could be considered "tone-deaf".
David9855: While I'm not the original poster of the comment I believe he means tone deaf; as in management don't seem to be listening to what their customers (Stable games, new games, up to date software) want and keep on with these e-celeb parasites that are often a liability.
There is no current, widespread outcry (of which I'm aware) over anything to do with Twitch, or GOG's channel thereon, nor about any of these particular streamers or games, and which this announcement or event has worsened or is likely to worsen. Nothing that you mentioned has anything to do with this event whatsoever, since none of the people involved are even employed by GOG, save Piranjade/Piranka, and she's just the Twitch stream coordinator. Some random volunteer streamers playing games on their own time on Twitch is unlikely to either worsen or prevent the amelioration of any of your perceived problems with GOG's products and services.
Or are you suggesting that they cease
any and all promotions via
any medium until they attain some arbitrary measure of improvement as judged by you?
An EA rep talking about "pride and accomplishment" in response to complaints about ridiculous requirements of hours played to unlock much-anticipated content in a major new game is tone-deaf. Making a "gas in the shower" joke to a roomful of Holocaust survivors would be tone deaf. This is nothing of the sort.
You not liking streamer/YouTuber culture, and GOG happening to promote a (rare) special event on their Twitch channel, is not them being "tone deaf"; the vast majority of people seem to run the gamut from, at best, "Sounds fun! Will watch it all live!" to, at worst, "Don't care; will ignore". (This forum seems to shelter a lot of those at the more negative end of that spectrum, but the GOG forums no longer equal the GOG community -- if they ever did.) You're part of a mere fraction of a minority who are
incensed to be reminded that Twitch
exists, let alone that a company they (kind of) like has the gall to want to use it for promotion. This is pretty much you telling other people not to like something you don't (with a pinch of "old man yells at cloud"), but framing it as if it's some consumer rights issue. (And I say all this as someone who doesn't much like Twitch, livestreaming, social media, etc., himself, and who is resignedly cynical regarding GOG's business strategies and technical capabilities.)
