Anothername: ne moron who decides to pull out in the last moment. They deserve the chance to some praise too.
karnak1: I never stated that I'm gonna pirate the game. I wrote that I could easily do it if I wanted to. I know where to get it from, 100% free of virus or malware.
But I prefer to buy and play games which I legally purchased on GOG.
Still, the sad fact is that pubs don't really care wether you pirate the game or not. Their main intention is to boycott projects like GOG store or other DRM-free places in order to enforce stricter DRM upon the dumb customers who keep supporting such practices.
Fact is: time passes and people still refuse to "vote with their wallets". Just like in real world politics, when citizens allow crooks to become politicians and enforce their policies everyone loses in the end.
Anothername: My mistake, sorry. Some ppl lack any self restrain and hit the download button regardless where. You both are right though; in a perfect world ppl would all vote with their wallets. At least those that are against those platforms.
Please, no need to apologize. I understand what you mean.
And I've gotta add that it's sad as hell that GOG is so undervalued by publishers. It was thanks to GOG that I stopped pirating games (when almost every new game was launching with steamworks attached) and returned to giving money to publishers. And I suspect I wasn't the only one.
And I find it criminal how the gaming press (90% of which love to lick Valve's ass) never acknowledged the importance of GOG in the retro-revival which started almost a decade ago.
When GOG started its business I remember very well reading on gaming sites how folks were shocked that a store was asking for money for games which were 20 years old.
Now, some years later, even steam is selling old games and capitalizing on GOG's business model. Many indie studios which focus on making retro-styled games based on Pixel Art and old-school mechanics can probably thank GOG for strengthening a market for "old-looking" games.
And still - after so many years - I still hear the same : "why is GOG selling incomplete games!" "steam's version has extra DLC" "I'm gonna have to buy on steam now", "why can't GOG force publishers to sell this and that",etc etc etc etc... and still they keep buying on steam, or origin, or uplay, whatever.
Maybe one day GOG will finally close its doors. And there will be consequences. And then people will miss GOG and a place where they could buy DRM-free games. But it will be too late.
As the old saying goes:
Sometimes you only learn to value a thing when you lose it forever.
