Lifthrasil: Let's see who is going to be fired about this release. The last perceived insensitivity led to the discharge of Linko. Let's see how it goes this time.

TheMonkofDestiny: The GOGBear will get put into a rocket and scapegoated directly into the sun for this indignity.

kohlrak: I've left because the politics and the impossible standards for avoiding political discussions irked me. I decided to stick to game specific forums (actually, only 1, and because i felt i had an issue to address [eventually decided to contact the devs directly]). However, i must break this vow of silence for this game... We need to worry about how our politics look on the forums until we can make a sale on it i see... Now it's not just an impossible standard to avoid politics, but a double standard! SARS-CoV-2 and how to handle it is very much a political issue, so now GOG wants to support things it agrees with while banning discussion on politics? I'm absolutely sure they're doing a good job banning all discussion on it as well, outside of this game.

But, hey, i'm a free speech absolutist, so i think it has a right to exist. I think gog should freely allow as many games as possible. However, GOG should know damn well that this is going to put it's curation under much, much more scrutiny at this point. All the games it rejects and rejected in the past in favor of this obvious tone-deaf cash-in? Either come up with some standard we can verify for your curation, or abandon it entirely, because i think most people would say this is not something to make GOG alot of money over something like pro-trump or pro-biden propaganda. Insted of pissing off "one camp" you manage to piss off everyone with this. Sure, it should be allowed on here, but beware the outrage over the next game you reject.

GameRager: I don't know about others, but I DO NOT want anyone fired or the game removed(let people buy what they want)..

Lifthrasil: I don't want anyone to be fired either. But if there is a backlash GOG might find a scapegoat again.

Lifthrasil: But yes, having a 'no politics' rule and then publishing political flame-bait games is a bit two-faced.

TheMonkofDestiny: The GOGBear will get put into a rocket and scapegoated directly into the sun for this indignity.

TheMonkofDestiny: I wrestled over whether it was more inhumane with the GOGBear or GOG-chan. :P

TheMonkofDestiny: I wrestled over whether it was more inhumane with the GOGBear or GOG-chan. :P

GameRager: We're they titled Iraq of Afghan war or similar, or were they based around such conflicts? I ask as there were middle eastern wars/battles before those ones, and those games might've been based on those much earlier battles.

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GameRager: Yes, but afaik not much of it(if any)(I mean games and movies and such) was made when those diseases first hit or were discovered.....but made when people had become more or less "used"** to both illnesses.

(**=i.e. once people stopped focusing so much on them as a collective whole).

(Or it was "serious" documentary type stuff)

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GameRager: What do you mean MANY defenders? Most of the posts here seem to be AGAINST it.

4QxBHRUT: "If I don't like it, nobody can like it! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

So much whining from the mental midgets, if you don't like it don't play it.

falloutttt: -Developer's Letter from Marketing.-

Themken: No surprise to see a game like this but a surprise to see it on GOG. I guess this means it is of much better quality than these games usually are.

Breja: I sure hope all the outraged people never once smirked at any Covid-related meme and while not posting here spend their time giving every monster posting coffin dance a good talking to.

Darvond: What of the game when this is all over and we moved on with our lives? I don't mean to state that question as without emotion; I'm aware of those directly affected, but I mean to posit it bluntly. What's the point of making a game based on current events?

Sabin_Stargem: Just because the Coronavirus crisis will end someday, doesn't mean that viruses go away. You can easily swap out "Coronavirus" with "Bubonic Plague" and be just as valid. People who play Outbreak may apply their digital experience with disease management to inform how they handle a real-world virus.

The gamers of today may be tomorrow's scientists and politicians.