Zeewolf: Maybe GOG wouldn't get in so much trouble if they just started treating their social media followers as adults again instead of constantly tweeting/posting lame memes and other childish nonsense.

Offensive or not, there was nothing of value in that tweet. It was just dumb noise.

CMOT70: The transgender thing is flaring up again in my part of the world as well! The governing body of our football (that's football not soccer) are being challenged in court because they ruled that men who cut their penis off are no longer allowed to play football against women (real ones that is). Previously they were allowed, but then it was changed because it was decided a biological born male will always have a strength advantage no matter what. The tragedy is that the women footballers (the real ones) cannot even make public statements defending their rights without being assaulted online by the tranny supporters. How has it come to this?

And New Zealand entered a man who cut his penis off in the weightlifting competition (of all things!) at the Commonwealth Games, and it was allowed.

You really think these people are not attention seeking? They are really just protecting their rights? What about the rights of women that want to play sport. Transgender rights are higher than womens rights apparently. Transgener people don't want equal rights, they extra rights, they want their own little laws sperate laws written just for them.

I'm waiting for the day that the Olympics "female" teams are all men that identify with being female, we may as well just go down this path and remove the need even for the operation, why not?

Maverick89: There´s nothing transphobic in the tweet, or in the Cyberpunk "Did you just assume my gender" tweet, pcmasterrace isn´t offensive, gamergate isn´t about harassment and the Postal 2 tweet was funny. Stop caving to the always offended mob, they´re not your customers.

notranniespls: All trannies should be skilled alive

tremere110: What's going on with this thread? Last post from my perspective was 4 hours ago yet it rides near the top of the forum.

cannard: OK there was another thread about basically the same subject I already read through, it gave me a headache, I can't find it right now, not gonna read all 15 pages of this, I think the gist is pretty clear to me right now. Rather...

I keep hearing it said this was GOG's "third strike" in making an "offensive" tweet by a number of people. Putting aside the contents of the tweets themselves and whether or not they were "offensive" (something I don't really care to argue about, not right now anyway), the second one was made by CD Projekt Red, not GOG themselves. I know both are close affiliates, seeing "CD Projekt Group" in the bottom left corner of this site and CD Projekt's site having GOG as a listing at the top. Does one company own the other? Or is it just some partnership...thing? Last I heard, several years back, in a video interview with someone at GOG, they said though they work closely with CDPR they aren't a branch of their company. They just happened to share an office right across and have the same principles about DRM and so forth (which seems to have changed since then obviously with their respective banners highlighted on both their sites).

So both are associates, but to what degree? Who leverages all the responsibility of any social media goings-on if any? They both still remain essentially separate entities with their own social media handlers, right? Is it really fair to pin all three, *'hem* "incidents" on GOG when they themselves could only be technically held "accountable" for two (Postal expansion advertising featuring a grave of "Game Journalists" being pissed on, and them co-opting a tweet about trans rights in America to make it something about games), and CDPR for one in the middle of all this, their transgression being a "did you assume their gender" dad joke.

So what is it? It's sort of understandable why they'd both be lumped in as "three times the charmless" but despite their associations they are different operations independent of one another. GOG is a storefront for DRM-free games. CDPR is a game development studio who releases titles on multiple platforms, including consoles, and on other PC game storefronts besides GOG (Steam, and Origin too I believe I saw Witcher games being sold there as well). Anyone have a solid answer for this?

Fenixblade33: trim

cannard: Thank you, illuminating response. I think no matter what anyone's thoughts are on the contents of each company's tweet history, there are a number of things to take into consideration I see almost nobody doing at all. But that's the nature of the trash fire that is "current year" social media and socio-political discourse and the way it's molded the ways of thought of so many people for the worse. Well, since whoever posted the tweet has put GOG in the crossfire at the moment, with so far the biggest impact (while some indie movies probably almost nobody here bought or watched - I assume, neither I nor anyone I've seen anywhere knows who they are - being removed with the reason explicitly stated may seem a joke, the ramifications in the future could actually affect the things here most people DO care about if this keeps going), "tonedeaf" is perhaps what I'd label this twitter drama. I doubt many people would take into consideration things like you mentioned, but probably for this one, I think a transparent explanation of whatever's going on would be the best thing for GOG to do at the moment rather than just another tweet-long apology and moving on.

No, not to appease the rabid lunatics, of course nothing would appease them outside of seeing GOG being shut down outright (ResetEra doxxing an employee here should let people know that such people have only the worst intentions in mind and only seek to destroy others to gain ideological high ground, nothing more), but merely as a gesture of displaying genuine goodwill. Some may say "only the crazies are complaining" which, I don't think is entirely fair an assessment. It's a difference between someone saying "get your shit together" and "boycott them, dox everyone, they are transphobes looking to destroy the LGBTQ community, they are Nazis, they must be punched, no bad tactics, only bad targets, liberals get the bullet too." A fine line dividing the two I will say. Even though for some it may not seem that way there is in fact some level of nuance to be found in people lying outside the spectra of "crazy" both far left and far right.