That's not GOG's responsibility. Parent your kids better.

Funny.
That's never been said by anyone who wants to be "all the NSFW smut" gone from GOG.
Apparently, in those cases it is absolutely seen as GOG's responsibility.

In this case... I actually agree with you. Though I think that parents should be considerate of what content their child can access on the internet; it is also my belief, however naive it may be, that a child, parent, or other person, should be able to maintain a reasonable expectation that a place accessible to the general public (i.e. a place where one may anticipate anyone to be, including children - such a video game shop) is a place where others can be expected to behave with a certain amount of civility.
The distinction here then... is where what constitutes as public ends, and the private, adult, members only club begins. For GOG, it would have to be when a user begins to partake in the "GOG services." In my opinion... that is not when window shopping on the storefront, but performing actions that can only be done when logged into an account: purchasing and playing games, and using the forum.
That is to say, even if it is distasteful, I think profanity should be allowed on these forums, but people should be considerate when writing a review. The responsibility shouldn't have to fall on GOG, but it inevitably it must, for the sake of their own business: just as a waiter in a restaurant would compel those screeching profanities to cease, and ask them to leave should it continue. If it is demonstrated that what is customarily regarded as sufficiently civil is continuously being broken, customers will begin to leave. People should still have deceny and ability to restrain themselves in a public place, however...

No one has a right to NOT be offended.

Did you mean to say that double-negative?

I've had enough "f-bombs" aimed at me here in the GD, to believe, that some amount of "profanity" is allowed on the forums.

But seriously: what has "profanity"/"foul language" to do in a review for a game?

If someone has a valid (!) criticism to a game, it should be no problem for that person, to express that criticism in a civilized manner.

There is never a need to resort to swear words and insults, only to express one's opinion.

If someone feels that (to get their opinion across), they must use foul language in their review (and maybe even aim some insults towards the developers and/or other players/reviewers) - the problem is not with the game or the developers or the other players/reviewers...but entirely with that ill-mannered person.

Seriously, if someone ever finds themself in the situation above (that's if they're still able to recognize that situation as wrong - which is highly unlikely, of course), one should take a step aside, take a deep breath and ask themself, whether they're still writing a legit review for a game or if they're writing down a manifesto, which is fitting some personal agenda.

Yeah, well...there's a lot of what people should...


Edit: wording

Nothing. Save perhaps only as an intensifier for the unsophisticated who cannot seperate the written and spoken word.
Indeed... should. Because I am in no position of authority to demand anyone to do anything. It's just an opinion.

So what happened with your parents?

IF GOG is going to sell adult games, I don't see why there should be any kind of censorship at all on anything here. Nudity, gore, language. What's the point? If you're allowing the "not-for-kids" content, then you're not catering to kids.

For the same reason that a child can enter a cinema where an adult film is playing, can see the posters advertising it, but is denied access to view the film itself.

This isn't a theatre. It isn't a public place. It's a digital storefront. Parent your children better, if you have them. If you don't, then stop virtue signalling. I have kids, we don't swear in our house. I know they know swear words, but in polite society, we don't talk like that. I know they didn't learn them from my wife or me. So they learned them online or from their friends. I don't care, really. The point is, they know better and don't speak like that around me. If you think children are not being exposed to these influences, you're absolutely insane. Understand that kids will have access to things you don't think they should, and move on. If GOG wants to be an adult storefront, they should embrace that instead of selling smutty porn games in the one hand and encouraging a family friendly environment in the other.

I'm not virtue signalling, nor did I pass any judgement about how you operate your household or your private life.

Now if you're reading a GOG user review on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the GOG user review. You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness that you think you've read a GOG user review on your f**king telephone...




The biggest problem of the GOG user reviews is the very bad reputation. Several developers have told me and others to write a review on Steam instead. On Steam developers can flag reviews so that they can be moderated and it helps them to make the game visible on the storefront. On GOG even people who haven't bought the game can post their drivel. Then either nothing happens with the shitposting reviews or it will take a long time until the garbage collection starts. IMHO, the entire user review system needs to be replaced with something else. As an alternative GOG should do it like the EGS and have no user reviews at all. Even this would be better than the current user review system.

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