Lol, I think I've never read anything more childish from a company.

I don't blame them for pushing exclusives as that's basically the only reason they're known (and probably what helped GOG grow, and EGS feels exclusives are important), for the Duke Nukems not available anywhere else. But the description does sound whiny.

Doesn't that disqualify him a bit from being a cool guy? The message he wrote seems so spiteful and hostile for no reason it reminds me of high school.

I don't necessary agree with you that DRM free stores should work together, as they are competitors, but I think they should not act in such a childish behavior.

It was $14.99 USD on Zoom. I checked their price when Alekhine's Gun was released on GOG. I guess it was lowered in response.

What a weird thing to include. What they wrote doesn't even make sense since GOG never claimed to have dibs on "FIRST!!!!! LOL" and GOG has little to do with the game page text these days, so whatever copyright is listed was put there by 1C.

I talk to him on discord before. He went out of his way to provide great customer support for me. But I always got a feeling they dislike GOG from their discord. What they wrote is still surprising to me.

I do agree they should not act in such a behavior.
They seem to be watching what GOG doing a lot. Their site never used to say ALWAYS DRM FREE until.
Thank you for Clearing that up for me.

The base price is the same on both platform's, Zoom got a better sale price however.

Yeah I'm sure GOG does the same with Steam and co. Personally I think it's smart to take aboard games that GOG rejected, and I'm glad Hatred is coming to Zoom. But that's still a bizarre and pissy addition to the description.

So here's what Zoom_Jordan had to say in the Discord, and I got permission to share this.

"... The game was published DRM-Free here first. The GOG page states the copyright as 2020 1C, when in fact the game originally came out in 2016. The new copyright for the DRM-Free release is in fact 2021. The other and I suppose more important point would be the fact that when we had users request a game, we went out and did the research on rights. Acquired the license and published for our customers. It reminds me of Killing Time and the Prism Entertainment releases. In that instance, we had a GOG employee purchase the game. Their GOG email was even on the PayPal receipt. We’ve offered multiple times to collaborate with GOG. Instead, they’ve just chosen to buy our games...Suppose that’s their right, but as someone with economic interest, I have to think of my employees and the mouths they have to feed."

It seems like they're making a trivial thing into a big issue. So are they mad because GOG was not collaborating with with them? This why they got pissy when GOG mention them in the F DRM twitter post?

Edit: This was responding to your other post with ZP had to say on discord. GOG not letting reply to some post. I don't know why.

Thank you for sharing.

That seems more likely the case. I was confused because there was no indication of a sale/discount on Zoom's listing. Even when you search for discounted games, no results are returned.

Not sure what he's saying here. Employees aren't the company - they can buy from whoever they want in a personal capacity. It's like even you work for Walmart, you can still go shopping at Winn Dixie (or Kaufland and Lidl, or insert local comparison as appropriate).

I don't really understand what he complains about and what is the issue here. A Gog employee purchased the game... and what ? I suspect Gog employees purchase a lot of Steam and Epic games probably even using their Gog email. And the fact that they used their Gog email seem to indicate that they didn't really tried to hide it.

Also I don't think Gog buy "their" games but instead purchase the rights from the right owner, not sure what he means here. Does he said that Gog directly uses their binaries instead or creating their own ? Again that depends of the agreement Zoom had with the original right owner.

The gamepage, accessed just now, reads with the following relevant statement: "ZOOM Platform is the home of the original Alekhine's Gun DRM-Free release! (May 28th 2021)". So, evidently it has been changed from whatever was being discussed a little earlier in the topic.

Hopefully the new wording alleviates any of this fetishizing about how a company is "supposed" to act. Personally I don't think a DRM-free store like GOG is "professional" to have numerous titles where content is locked behind online requirements, but, by all means, don't support a 100% purely DRM-free platform over there.

The truth is that I agree that ZP is acting in a very childish way. It is true that there is competition between companies in the same commercial sector. But healthy competition between companies is one thing and unfair competition trying to tarnish GOG's good name is quite another. I have an account at ZP and I was planning to continue shopping there, but I have decided not to continue for two reasons: First, some of ZP's video games have problems with libraries (.dll) that are not included in the .exe file (the .dll was missing). I have had to download dll's from other web portals to get a game to work. Or bugs in video games that work perfectly on GOG. Secondly, I don't like companies that, in order to advertise themselves, try to tarnish the competition. That makes me think that internally at ZP they don't believe in what they do to such an extent that they have to badmouth their main competitor.