You're quarrelsome, patronising, snarky, arrogant and every time you use your favorite ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as a "get out of jail free card" for being an ass you make yourself look like a troll. I'd say I can hardly imagine a place where all that qualifies one to be a mod, only apparently I'm in one right now.

Thank you. And while we probably still disagree on the point of that other thread, in the light of what you've been saying here I think I owe you an apology for some of the things I said there. Clearly I at least partially misunderstood your position.

Do you not know what target audience means? I'm serious. It means GOG did not develop this feature for someone that has no use for it. toxicTom did not have a use for this feature, ie he was not the target audience. There was nothing insulting about that whatsoever.

Don't think I didn't see what you originally wrote.
Using an emoji is now a problem? Really? Okay then...

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What a ****. Maybe practice in front of a mirror or something?

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I think a lot of people claim this, very few follow through... but if you do, you do. That's your choice.

I mean has been pretty clear what the intention here is. They consider GOG.com one store within Galaxy and the GOG.com store is not changing.

That could happen, but Steam is so big that they really have no reason too... not yet anyway. Now if Galaxy starts gaining real traction and is viewed as a threat then Valve might do that.

The chances of that are slim IMO.

Is there? GOG has been doing this for a long time and still only has maybe 10% and that is if the game releases on the same day as Steam, Epic, etc. Only with the changes and introduction of Galaxy have they seen real growth and better releases.

Steam could for sure, but has no real reason too... if they do, it because they see Galaxy as a threat. There is no unique value proposition if you are only a GOG.com user. But if you use Epic Games there is value here. There is for sure a chance this will not work out the way GOG believes, I will give you that, but I think the potential reward is greater then the risk IMO.
Look I know tensions are high and people are angry with this announcement, so I'm going to cut you a break here, but if you keep up with insults like this then we will be having a very different discussion. I have not personally insulted you whatsoever.

So I will ask nicely, please cut it out. Thank you.

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This thread seems way to chaotic to really be considered a "protest" imo. People might have to organize off-site or something.

You do know that pirate copies of games were mostly DRM-cracked games even if they were released on GOG DRM-free, right?

GOG was spared because the goal was to crack the DRM and make a statement. However, 2 days ago, Illegal copies of GOG games have started popping up everywhere (when the announcement was made).

Care to guess what would happen to disgruntled ex-customers when they start feeling they are not part of a larger group anymore?

People are spending money on GOG by choice.

While not start a crowdfund to fund another platform that goes back to the roots like GOG once did? The bigger it gets, the more people may donate. If tens of thousand names are attached to the brand then you have a true "by gamers, for gamers" slogan that has a lot of gravitas behind it because of how it is funded.

The problem is that the new company may snowball into something bigger than intended and the circle may repeat anew but it may still be worth a try if people on here actually act. Just find a bigboi youtuber like YongYea or someone like that to stir up some controversy and to promote the new shop.

Or just send GOG a lot of angry e-mails or something amongst those lines, perhaps the people in charge of this community may listen.

I never thought I would see the day a moderator from a respectable company like GOG would engage its costumers, in their official forums, with this kind of arrogant and rude attitude. What is going on in here?

People have invested their money on this place because of a service they believe in and appreciate. GOG represents a niche market that gamers have demanded for years, and it is probably one of the few stores that operates with DRM-free content where you can download and store your games forever.

The recent events have caused people to question the direction this company is going, causing concern and doubt about what is actually happening. Meanwhile, the actual staff remains silent and avoids any sort of clarification, leaving room for wide speculation. A simple "don't worry about it, our mission remains the same" from any blue here would be enough to calm most people down. Yet we got nothing of the sorts.

All of this speculation should be a matter of utmost concern for GOG as a company, since word of mouth has always been one of the most positive (or negative) assets of any business. All of this concern from us is based on what has repeatedly happened with companies operating in this business segment, and despite GOG's overall positive track record, specially from all the good faith originated from CD Projekt Red with The Witcher series, they are not above suspicion.

Meanwhile, a moderator addresses our concerns as "doom and gloom", pretty much mocking us with recurrent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ postings as if to reinforce his position of disdain towards us. No business in their right mind should be ok with this sort of behavior towards their audience.

Companies have an interest to get a foothold on your computer. It is about control and information and they market it as convenience for you as a customer and with accepting that you make one step closer to games as a service, meaning you pay the full price for a game, but do not own it, you rent it (technically, we are already there with the license agreement, but it would be hard to enforce it with offline installers) . Apart from giving away a ton of information about your usage of your computer and your gaming habits.

Accepting reality does not mean, that reality is moving in a good direction...why do you think, you have the rights you have now? Because people back then accepted reality? What nonsense.

Actually we got just that a while back. It's just that, for reasons state by me in detail here I don't find if very reassuring, and I don't think others do.

Of course not, yet people had over a decade to notice these important negative changes and to counteract against them (perhaps its even several decades, people on here probably remember HOTU and what it stood for, its one of the reasons GOG exists in the first place). I don't think anyone would actually prefer to live in a cyberpunk dystopia at least until it actually happens. We're pretty close to actually head into such a direction within our lifespan. At least until you get some of that covid, then that lifespan is probably a bit too short but not by much.

All that crying helps nobody unless you're willing to actually want a better future. I don't see it happen because people are too lazy for that shit and rather want to gather around to fill 27 pages of circlejerk nonsense that nobody in charge and who also understands business has a use for.

I'm a bit bothered how GOG is further dispersing the core audience as well but actually try to find solutions instead of dreaming that anybody else does what you're too lazy to do. Crowdfunding a whole new store and using such funds to attact the licenseholders is a good start. Again, simply starting a crowdfunding campaign and find a big youtuber that stirs up some news is a good start. If enough people want this to happen the bigboi youtubers may feel inclined to report these news, making enough people interested to spend some money to make the dream happen. Creating a new shop is already enough for some of these folks to cover it, at least in my opinion.

Doesn't even need that many people to crowdfund something like this, probably like 30.000 - 50.000 people for starters (if those people are willing to spend more than 25 bucks per person, that is). Thats small numbers compared to the audiences that are willing to contribute some cash that some of these news youtubers or even some of the bigger twitch streamers have. It all depends on how the news develop.

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I am here because I do not like having third party software on my computer that starts itself every time I want to play a game, neither do I want to authenticate myself to a third party every time I want to play a game.Also I do not want any DRM software running in the background. Then there is the control aspect, when you get a patched regional version and the game on your computer is altered.

Selling stuff from Epic Games months after the FCKDRM campaign is just a joke and a slap into the face of every customer who chose GOG because of that campaign.

I do not work for GOG & I'm entitled to my opinion... if you consider using an emoji to signify being indifferent to your position in this discussion "mocking" then I can't help that. I'm not going to suddenly change my opinion because somehow people think I'm "rude" to them.

I have no power over what GOG does or does not do, it is not for me to address your concerns I'm sorry to say... that falls on GOG... I am a GOG user, fan, and player just like everyone else. You seem to think a community mod has a higher statue then everyone else. We don't. We try to maintain order on the forum and enforce the forum rules... this is all. If you think I've somehow broke the forum rules then by means, your more then welcome to take it up with GOG. But I'm fairly certain I have not.

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All of this is true. Still, i think that the GOG staff know more about the situation then we do. Perhaps they were forced to make compromises and knew the possible blowback but general analysis of the datapoints that they've accumulated thoughout the time (through community interaction or by pitting customer GOGs core audience vs sales numbers vs consumer interest or whatever else they do).

Its not silly to assume that they know way more than any of us and are making decision according of what they know is all I'm saying.