Yes, thank god for the people who make GOG becoming more like Steam profitable. Unlike those horrible freeloaders who never gave GOG a buck over the years of being customers here, and make this forum so toxic by not agreeing with you. Monsters.

And you're helping so much, always showing up to support every shitty move GOG makes and insulting everyone who dares to criticise it. I just don't know what we'd do without you.

Educate myself on what, exactly? That that one videogames journalist mis-described The Wticher 3's free DLC as microtransactions? Tell that shitty journalist that its not a microtransaction, not me for understanding the obvious difference.
How could that sentence come out of your brain? Mine hurt reading it. The very definition of the word "sell" involves money.

I would not use the word sell. but the following sequence:

A: "Please take this item. It is free!"
B: "Why, thank you very much! Yes I will take it"

is a transaction between two parties.

edit: the transaction sequence can even be broken / incomplete by:
B:"No, you horrible person. Get lost!"

You mean like you do but in exact opposite. Don't pretend like anyone that defends such things isn't on your shit list either & that you don't insult them as well. We are all biased. At-least I can admit that.

Call me when GOG actually does something worth getting the pitchforks out for and then I will agree with you. Right now all I see are entitled gamers.

I'd agree you're technically correct, but that's not how the term microtransaction is used. Microtransactions are an economic model (and can be done well in some cases, such as Path of Exile) but I don't agree that free DLC (and CDPR always used the term DLC with it, the two paid for ones were Expansion Packs) is an economic model.

We're entitled by venting our frustrations? You sound just like a Republican.

they also said the other DLC's where "expansions".... semantics?

No, widely held definitions to distinguish the new practices of the industry from the old. Possibly semantics, but ones that I regard highly.

No I guess they are wrong and you are right... the journalist is wrong and the Ex-Naughty Dog Developer is also wrong. It doesn't matter how you see it. To the industry these things are microtransactions.

Sell. Giveaway. Whatever. Let's get caught up on one word shall we.

It's still a transaction between two parties. When you get something for free on GOG you still get a receipt yes? Look under orders, hence a it's transaction.

Yes, yes, from your point of view the Jedi are evil. Whatever.

Bullshit, complete bullshit. The naughty dog employee said that there are internal arguments about that, the industry CERTAINLY doesn't see it that way, and the only reason for trying to include the Free DLC of TW3 in the argument is when there is a vested interest in trying to make a shitty and hated practice seem nice. Its a PR move.

anyway,.. they are also a "store" which is also an economic model involving monies, yet they give some games away for free

Oh god, it's really hard not to be ad hominem right now.

No. DLC and microtransactions are not the same thing. One is never the other. A low-priced DLC is just a low-priced DLC. Microtransactions (which is a misnomer -- they need not be a small dollar amount) are for evaporating, consumed things -- cheats, moneys, etc.

The Grim Dawn item is a low-priced DLC. You buy it, it's yours, part of the game. It's not something you use once and it's gone.

No he didn't. You obviously didn't comprehend what he said. When he was talking about debates around the office he was specifically talking about the thought behind the content vs what to charge for it ratio. The amount of bang for you buck.

He clearly said things like horse armor and the burst rifle are microtransactions. The horse armor was likely a reference to Oblivion which started the trend of selling microtransactions and is something all gamers point back too and hate on.

That's like saying thumbs and fingers are not the same thing. All thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs. But believe what you want the industry is clear about this.