muntdefems: I hope you were being sarcastic here as well...
Need to ask?
chevkoch: It is a near quote from the message I got, here is the full excerpt regarding this:
[...] due to their near-constant high workload consisting of matters that are reported much more often and by large number of users, and as such considered to be of higher priority.
chevkoch: [...]
Good grief, not sure what to make of the wording... the web team has a near-constant workload because of matters reported
much more often? Kind of sounds like a large number of users experience recurring issues, and the web team has to deal with them over and over again.
Did you follow up with an inquiry on what those matters are? I'd be very curious to hear what a couple of those issues that keep the web team's workload at near-constant high levels are.
chevkoch: [...] And once again: mandatorily displaying your country of origin is a privacy issue; I do not understand how they can ignore this.
We're talking about GOG here, they think it's a brilliant idea to broadcast to everyone's inbox, i.e. even if they're not using/running the client, what games people are playing with no way to turn it off, from what I understand; does this sound to you like they care much about privacy concerns users may have?
On a side note, the wish about the unbundling of games was fulfilled when it had reached 17 votes, so yours should qualify as well now.
adaliabooks: From what I've gathered from the few answers actually given GOG wants to maintain the content of this forum when it does whatever migration it may eventually do, which will be the main problem. [...]
Problem? Nah, they've got the necessary know-how -
tried and tested.
adaliabooks: [...] But I think the desire to maintain the content here is to please the users, think of the fuss when the PMs went and took with it half of people's conversation history. GOG are trying not to repeat that, but that is their mistake.
This forum needs killed (or archived at least) and replaced. [...]
Two points - one, there's some very good and helpful content in game fora, so maintaining it in some form does go a bit beyond pleasing users.
Two, GOG managed to kill one more of my exchanges with their latest revamp of the chat system, and in good old GOG tradition, they once again seem to have zero inclination to fix it, and this time they can't even claim that nobody knows how to address and fix it because the devs are no longer with the company.