I don't think you really read my post. I didn't accuse you of being hateful and abusive, I stated that Gamergate as a movement was. As part of that movement, the original chanboard trolls duped people who honestly believed the line about games journalism to act as their shields. Go watch the video series I linked, it's very good.

People were tricked? Well that's a new one, and an interesting movement in the narrative (guess they can't ignore the changes in ethics policies GG brought forever). Also not remotely what happened.

Getting information about people criticizing the press from the press is often a poor idea.

You forgot basement dwelling neckbeards...the gaming journalism community is just so civil...

Boooooring. You are all so boring with your outrage and outrage about outrage and blah blaaaaah blaaauuuargh...

Here, I'll solve the whole fucking crisis for you:

1. Delete you twitter account. Because seriously, fuck that smelly armpit of the Internet.
2. Buy the game and have fun.
3. Or don't buy it and have fun with something else.
4. Congratulations, you've reached the end of my "how not to be a dipshit" tutorial.

Unfortunately the crawling apology means this is the new normal because they know this nonsense works now. So everything someone doesn't like is going to be culture war BS now.

If only they'd just deleted the tweet. Would of been forgotten in a few days.

Is it just me, or did GOG just decided to throw RSW under the bus?
After so many nontroversies is difficult to not be a jaded individual, but to me this feels like GOG implicitly associating these devs with whatever crazy stuff the twitter mob was peddling.

Look, I will be honest, I will NOT support a platform that wont stand by its developers, for years you sold an irreverent game that lets you shoot protestors with a cat having a shotgun sticking out of its anus. Paradise Lost lets you napalm Tim Schafer just so you can piss on him, and the gravestone joke is what deserves an apology?
And god knows you have other games with controversial themes in store.

Im not sure what is the best course of action to take, really, I have no idea, but I will not buy from GOG if they are going to pull stunts like this, we are not talking about Minority Killing Simulator 2017, this is Postal 2 we are talking about, its supposed to be irreverent, inmature, nasty satire.
And its a damn cult classic.

Question - I consider game journalism to be a corrupt, cronyist cesspool of elitist arseholes with bloated egos who believe their opinions are very important and an absolute truth. Back in 2014/15 I stated as such (and called Nathan Grayson an incompetent turd but that's besides the point) in a private group on SNS and was called a gamergate harasser who hates women - this, after accusation was spread, prompted some harassment from people I never knew and resulted in me being expunged from that particular social circle. Note that's all I said back then on the topic. Does that mean I am an abuser and, since certain people made sure to smear that online identity as an evil monster, mean I should be held in contempt by some companies who never interacted with me?

Gamergate is not a movement, it was a non-troversy, a hashtag, like the Doritosgate and 99% of the other whatevergate that happens on the Net, it should have died after maximum a week or two.

Sadly there was a bunch of morons that thought it would be a good idea to throw oil on the fire and that it would give their sites some juicy click-bait articles; it resulted on it surviving for much longer that it should have, grow tremendously and have tons more peoples joining the fray, from peoples genuinely interested in a discussion about game journalism or game censorship to the worse trolls only interested in throwing insults and death threats for fun. Which of course in turn triggered event more vitriolic articles, more strong reaction, more random insults, etc...

And here we are today with some peoples considering a random twitter hashtag (that by definition has no membership, no leader, that anybody can use whenever they want for whatever they want ) as being some crazy evil conspiracy movement responsible of all the wrong in the world from some random shooting to the extinction of the dinosaurs.


Concerning the tweet and the tombstone in Postal in particular, I think that regardless of ones opinion on GG, something was broken at that date between a sizable portion of the gamer community and the gaming press, and that's what this tombstone represent rather than a direct support for the hashtag.

I agree - an update is different from an expansion. But I noticed that GOG recently is getting a few long awaited updates so I thought that maybe their aproach and focus to get things here (especially long awaited things) might have changed. Maybe they talked to RWS again and maybe they resolved their problems (whatever they were) doing this. I know, there's a lot of "maybe" involved in my theory. Anyway the most important thing is that we have it here now.

Edit: I just read that the devs posted here as well explaining everything. So forget my theories :)
Glad to hear this. So, as it has been pointed out already here ... how about a nice discount to make up for the long delay? See also this. I want to make clear that I don't demand it - it's just a suggestion :)

A big discount would be the only way I'd get it here since, after seeing how GOG version was effectively abandoned for a long time, I bought Postal 2 AND Paradise Lost again, on Steam. At full price AFAIR. :/

It's called diplomacy ;)

I'm so sorry.