Considering I have Postal 1 & 2 first on Steam then here on GOG for a DRM free copy... you are quite wrong. You even showed me that the developers of Postal 3 were fine with it being released on Zoom as there was a rough time between them and the games publisher.

Is this the game in which you can wear two hats?

Funny, pretty sure I have seen someone on Zoom discord with your name saying something different.
The issue would be fixed really fast. It's because how small of company ZOOM is right now. Not whole lot issues going on. Let's see how their services is when they get big like GOG. I also hope they do continue grow and mature little.

Ok. What particular statement are you referring to?

It's no secret that I have been unhappy with GOG recently. After all, I started the 2021 Boycott thread. However, as I have explained there many times, I don't hate GOG or want them to fail. I want GOG to be a good store and a solid option for DRM-free gaming and the purpose of the boycott is to encourage them to keep to their roots/promises.

Imo, having more than one option for DRM-free games is a very good thing. It is far more healthy for the market and for DRM-free gaming than to have all the 'eggs' in one basket. This is what annoys me about people trashing Zoom Platform and throwing around baseless accusations. Any real fan of DRM-free should be happy to see other viable DRM-free options becoming available.

Btw, I am planning to buy some things from GOG in the January sale, to cut them some slack.

I appreciate your suggestion, but no thanks. I find it disrespectful to the customer to have to report a bug (or missing dll) on a platform other than the ZP sales website. On the other hand, it leaves me a lot to be desired what happened because, I ask myself if ZP test the video games once packaged in .exe distributions before putting them on sale. It's just that these problems shouldn't happen in the first place, don't you think?

Edit.- I can understand the problems with a video game that was released 20 years ago, but not with a 2016 title. It's unbelievable, really.

Just a heads up, but linking a specific page isn't very precise as you can set GOG's forum posts to have different numbers of comments per page. In my case, for example, I set the forum to show 50 comments per page, so the last page I see is 13 and not 14. Meanwhile, someone that sets the forum to show 10 comments per page would see the comments #141 to #150 instead.

What I suggest doing is sending the link of a specific comment instead, as they rarely seem to break and always send you to the same spot of the post no matter the settings. If you hover the mouse on a comment, you'll see a chain image and a number to the right of the "posted x time period ago" tag. Click on the chain icon to get that comment's direct link.

Thanks for the information.

Ok. Have you tried using the contact form on the ZP website? It's not that you have to report it on the Discord channel, but I suggested it as an excellent option because I guarantee you would receive a very fast response. You will probably receive a very quick response with the contact form as well.

Bugs happen in software, that's life. Zoom Platform can't possibly be expected to test every game on every single possible PC configuration out there (any more than GOG can). I hope you are also holding GOG to that rather high standard?

Calm down. Again, thank you very much for the suggestion. But, no thanks. And even less when we are talking about a video game that not long ago was updated by ZP and where the changelog says that the bugs have been fixed when they have not.

Also within this standard is GOG. And so far I have never had a video game warn me that it needs libraries to run on the computer. I know that in software issues there can be bugs or compatibility problems, among others. And I understand that it is more complicated with older video games, but with more recent titles I can't believe it.

LMAO I love how GOG lives rent-free on Zoom's store and their shillers' minds. It's hilarious.

In what way am I not calm? It just strikes me as a little unfair to be calling out a store for a technical issue with one of their games on a different store's forum, without giving them any opportunity to fix it. But then, it seems you're not really interested in getting the problem fixed, otherwise you wouldn't carry on posting about it in the wrong place ...

Wow! If you can't understand how bugs can happen in recent software, then you can't have bought any games from EA, Bethesda, CDPR, Rockstar etc. in the last 10 years.

Edit: by the way, tell me what game it is and I'll happily report the issue for you.

A situation that should not have occurred in the first place cannot be called a technical error. So it's not a technical error, but an abysmal error of the team behind a product that is launched on the market without having been tested first. Honestly, this situation has already happened to me twice and I'm not interested in fixing anything else. The solution was simple: Buy the game on GOG and that's it.

I repeat for the last time that a programming error in the videogame is one thing, and the lack of libraries to run it is quite another. This denotes that the product was not tested before its release and subsequent sale to the consumer. Let's be clear, please.

If the videogame had been tested before being marketed, the problem would have been corrected at the time. But they tell you in the changelog that they have fixed the problem and then you install the video game on your computer and you find the same thing again. In my humble opinion, all of this shows a lack of respect for the consumers and a lack of interest on the part of ZP.

The video game with the problem is: A Boy and His Blob. And it is not currently available on the platform.

Edit.- Another video game that has given me problems is BloodRayne. There seems to be a file missing and the game crashes. In case you want to report it as well.

I have that game in my Zoom Platform library myself and in fact it is one of the games I am playing at the moment. It worked for me just fine first time, out of the box. I have bought 20-30 games on Zoom and so far I have not encountered any problems installing or running any of them.

Have you considered that maybe the problem might in fact be with your system, rather than the game? Issues with software can be down to the application, but they can also be down to the OS they are running on. What version of Windows are you using? As I said before, I hardly consider it reasonable to expect Zoom Platform to have tested every game on your specific system configuration.

As I have also said, they provide multiple ways to report problems and their support responds far more quickly than any online game store I have ever seen. If you don't want to use those channels, that is your business, but otherwise there isn't really much else they can do.

I have that one in my library too, but haven't tried running it yet. I will try it later this evening and see if it runs for me. Btw, be aware that I do all of my gaming in Linux - I use Wine for most Zoom Platform games (which they don't even officially support).

Which library is Boy and His Blob telling you need? Btw, all software requires 'libraries' to run. If your system is missing a commonly-installed Windows library, then again that might well be down to your system setup.

The missing libraries are: msvcp110.dll and msvcr110.dll.