feda6: Question: why does GoG let you review games you don't own?
rtcvb32: I have a copy of
NWN platinum on
DVD here physically in front of me. Are my thoughts completely irrelevant if I haven't bought the game on GoG? And if that's the case if I buy the game and never played the GoG version, does it make a difference since I'm still reviewing the original game?
It's of limited relevance to me when it comes to old games. Chances are that I already know and love that game and played it to death decades ago. What I really want to know is if the GoG release is stable and contains everything that was in the original game. You can post a glowing review of your DVD copy of NWN, but if it turns out that the GoG version is missing music and the quests are broken, I'll be a little pissed. For example, the GoG copy of the original Rainbow Six is, as far as I know, broken to this day: terrorists and hostages are invisible in some missions, making them impossible to complete, and the music doesn't work. But 5/5 stars, say the reviewers! So you shouldn't be just reviewing the original game, you should review the version posted on this platform.
Martek: Regarding the "harm" factor - one other reason (beyond "
what you already reveal by posting an informed public review of that game") is been evident in this very thread - so-called SJW issues.
SJW issues tend to bring out fervent attacks between forum members (and, extrapolating - nearly everywhere on the internet). All it takes is some "social justice" issue to become a focal-point, and you can have people begin "bullying" others that don't "conform" to how they see the issue. That happens every day, all over the net - it's a pervading infestation that seems to be spreading.
Enabling those SJW's that like to "attack" others for having different stances on some SJ issue by providing "proof" that they own a possibly "controversial" title on GOG, from which they can launch a "verbal" assault on a person is just a bad idea - a really bad idea.
I wish you realized how extremely paranoid and ridiculous this sounds. Nobody in the world gives a damn that Joe Shmoe bought Postal on GoG. Not even "SJWs".
The only side-effect that retroactively marking reviews by non-GoG-copy-owners would have is that it would look weird on old games. So yeah, I agree that if they decide to start doing it, then it should probably happen going forward.
Shadowstalker16: Did you even read the link? It says the FTC responded that some suggestions from GG had a role in their updated requirements.
No, actually, they didn't. The FTC said nothing of the sort and has never mentioned GG. They said they have received many complaints. The issue of disclosure in online content was known to the FTC years before GG happened and they started drawing up new guidelines well before you guys suddenly became fond of the word "ethics".