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DRM free fight is a good fight but no store in their right mind allows you to advertise other stores on their "property."
GOG advertised Steam quite a bit. They advertise Epic, now. They advertised Zoom, once. :)
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mechmouse: Have you SEEN capitalism? Q4 is about as far forward as most companies care to look.
I wouldn't call it capitalism, because ''it'' is a Frankenstein fusion of special interests, obtuse regulations, corporate ignorance, pander politics and greed. I agree that companies don't see further than the next earnings call but I'd expect all these socially aware cool-kid companies to have some foresight if they consider themselves intelligent enough to partake in boycotts and hashtag movements that are saving the world.
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DoomSooth: GOG advertised Steam quite a bit. They advertise Epic, now. They advertised Zoom, once. :)
I never seem GOG advertised steam, unless you're talking about the GOG connections. Which is not really advertising. I did see them advertised ZOOM on Twitter years ago, but ZOOM got buthurt about it. Haha

Have they advertised Epic much? Didn't GOG do some deal with epic or am I wrong?

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Shadowstalker16: No game store cares about censorship. All they care about is money and PR. Steam forum moderators can be crazy and delete stuff at random, steam fanboys can be crazier and report stuff for no reason. Plenty of people don't want Hogwarts Legacy to exist on GOG, steam or anywhere. Don't become too invested in trying to talk sense to crazy people.

The latest game from the Detention devs has been refused for sale on both steam and gog because of its politics. That matter explains the whole ecosystem perfectly. Just look into before deciding what hill you're willing to waste time dying on.
Well said.
Post edited March 02, 2023 by Syphon72
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mechmouse: Have you SEEN capitalism? Q4 is about as far forward as most companies care to look.
Actually, capitalism is exactly the remedy from such shortsightedness. Get Woke, Go Broke. In fact, those big companies would be broke long ago if they hadn't support from the government and investment funds like Blackrock.
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mechmouse: Have you SEEN capitalism? Q4 is about as far forward as most companies care to look.
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LootHunter: Actually, capitalism is exactly the remedy from such shortsightedness. Get Woke, Go Broke. In fact, those big companies would be broke long ago if they hadn't support from the government and investment funds like Blackrock.
If we took every "Picard Face palm" ever shown on any screen since 1989 to present day, then compiled them into a 1000 mile high "Picard Face Palm Mural" we'd still not have enough of a Picard Face Palm to cover that comment.

This thread is likely to be shut down very soon, but you need help.... and an entry on the domestic terrorist watchlist.
Post edited March 02, 2023 by mechmouse
Strange, it was not Steam who issued the SPAM warning but Developer's moderation team ...

"I have looked into the warning and it seems that it was issued by the developer's moderation staff." -Steam Support
Post edited March 03, 2023 by breakercode
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breakercode: Strange, it was not Steam who issued the SPAM warning but Developer's moderation team ...

"I have looked into the warning and it seems that it was issued by the developer's moderation staff." -Steam Support
It's not that strange really. Some of us already told you that steam forums are self-moderated by dev's or pub's mods and often have their own subforum rules. WB Games and other big pubs are no exception, they often have their own dedicated pr/support/mod teams, esp. reinforced for big releases like this one. There is also a chance that the WB mod who tagged your post as spam doesn't even know what gog is.
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breakercode: Strange, it was not Steam who issued the SPAM warning but Developer's moderation team ...

"I have looked into the warning and it seems that it was issued by the developer's moderation staff." -Steam Support
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Spectrum_Legacy: It's not that strange really. Some of us already told you that steam forums are self-moderated by dev's or pub's mods and often have their own subforum rules. WB Games and other big pubs are no exception, they often have their own dedicated pr/support/mod teams, esp. reinforced for big releases like this one. There is also a chance that the WB mod who tagged your post as spam doesn't even know what gog is.
Au contraire my friend, they are well aware of what GOG is if they work for WB:

https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=warner-bros-interactive-entertainment
https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=wb-games
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Spectrum_Legacy: It's not that strange really. Some of us already told you that steam forums are self-moderated by dev's or pub's mods and often have their own subforum rules. WB Games and other big pubs are no exception, they often have their own dedicated pr/support/mod teams, esp. reinforced for big releases like this one. There is also a chance that the WB mod who tagged your post as spam doesn't even know what gog is.
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breakercode: Au contraire my friend, they are well aware of what GOG is if they work for WB:

https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=warner-bros-interactive-entertainment
https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=wb-games
The developer is Avalanche Software. Just beacuse the publisher is aware of gOg, it does not mean the developer does. Avalanche Software does not have any games on gOg.
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DoomSooth: GOG advertised Steam quite a bit. They advertise Epic, now. They advertised Zoom, once. :)
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Syphon72: I never seem GOG advertised steam, unless you're talking about the GOG connections. Which is not really advertising. I did see them advertised ZOOM on Twitter years ago, but ZOOM got buthurt about it. Haha

Have they advertised Epic much? Didn't GOG do some deal with epic or am I wrong?

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Shadowstalker16: No game store cares about censorship. All they care about is money and PR. Steam forum moderators can be crazy and delete stuff at random, steam fanboys can be crazier and report stuff for no reason. Plenty of people don't want Hogwarts Legacy to exist on GOG, steam or anywhere. Don't become too invested in trying to talk sense to crazy people.

The latest game from the Detention devs has been refused for sale on both steam and gog because of its politics. That matter explains the whole ecosystem perfectly. Just look into before deciding what hill you're willing to waste time dying on.
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Syphon72: Well said.
Killing time as ever i see lol


Steam rarely steps into mod comments, it's 90% of the time the team/pub behind the game itself. Boring truth but truth never the less
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breakercode: Au contraire my friend, they are well aware of what GOG is if they work for WB:

https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=warner-bros-interactive-entertainment
https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=wb-games
Yeah dude, let's zoom out a bit I agree. I'm well aware of WB games on gog, I do happen to even own some here and on steam alike. However I don't expect WB mods on steam to know more than they absolutely have to just to keep their subforum clean, since there is like a thousand posts a day. It doesn't surprise me that they might be a tad hasty to deem something spam even if it isn't. It's hard to blame them, it's thankless job often done by interns and inexperienced staffers in general so don't take it personally. Smaller publishers often have volunteer mods even. On a positive side of things, maybe you helped somebody discover gog.

I know it's kinda anticlimactic, as steam mods censoring you at the first mention of a different store sure would sound more dramatic.

Edit: By WB mods I mean whomever they contract to do the job. From 3rd party to interns, etc. I think you put too much hopes on them in general.
Post edited March 03, 2023 by Spectrum_Legacy
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breakercode: Hello,

As everyone knows Hogwarts Legacy was already launched, and after check the GOG Wishlist some days ago i created a post on Steam forum promoting the GOG Wish for Hogwarts Legacy, because i believe a lot of Steam users doesn't know the wonderful work GOG does by fighting for user rights of owning their games.

But after a day my post was removed with a SPAM warning, i left in the attachment if someone want to take action, i already replied saying this promotes Steam Monopoly and it seems an offense to the Competition Law.

As stated, from my perspective this is simply against the Competition Law, disguised with "SPAM Message redundant or don't fit the topic"

My gamer dream is to have triple A games in GOG on launch date, since i'm proud to be a part of this project as a user and i will defend it with all the love i can give to it! <3

A good day to all :)
I think half have experienced this.
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tfishell: I think it's truer of "AA" (and lower) devs and pubs than AAA's though.
What is the meaning of AA or AAA? According to my knowledge this is a school-rating for some schools in the US. How comes we are linking it to a certain quality or quantity of a game?

Regarding the costs involved, we can usually only guess... because the exact costs are rarely revealed.

It would be more accurate just trying to get a estimate of "the amount of devs involved" for a certain game and in general a bigger playtime will mean it is a rather big (and rather pricy) title.

Usually what we may miss on GoG, or any of the "smaller platforms", are "huge franchises" which is a certain game or series with special popularity and generally notorious for being able to run very well on "huge" or monopolized platforms. To me, any platform able to become a share of over 50% (of something comparable, for example games for the PC market), i do consider critical.

Hades for example... it comes from studio that was previously (until a certain point) barely known at all... and then it got famous and infamous (both at once) over time and as soon as Hades was released... they stopped supporting GoG, because most likely they had become cocky... and not even the old Epic-sponsors (with exclusivity-deals) are considered important to them anymore... the biggest platforms only.

Being popular does not necessarily mean "a big studio": For example "Grim Dawn", is actually coming from a small studio (smaller than Supergiant) but to me it is on par with any game on its genre. Of course it was rated high for a reason, but big is not always better. I still enjoy to see more of the "big studio-games" on GoG, although... it does not automatically set the quality of a game.
Post edited August 23, 2023 by Xeshra
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LootHunter: Actually, capitalism is exactly the remedy from such shortsightedness. Get Woke, Go Broke. In fact, those big companies would be broke long ago if they hadn't support from the government and investment funds like Blackrock.
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mechmouse: If we took every "Picard Face palm" ever shown on any screen since 1989 to present day, then compiled them into a 1000 mile high "Picard Face Palm Mural" we'd still not have enough of a Picard Face Palm to cover that comment.

This thread is likely to be shut down very soon, but you need help.... and an entry on the domestic terrorist watchlist.
What a completely normal, rational and not at all hyperbolic response...

LootHunter's correct by the way.