Hey GOG, I don't want this left-radical Antifa shit. Instead of glamorizing violence and crime, you should release the Devotion game, but obviously you are afraid to criticize communists. You should be ashamed.

You're basically saying that the dumbass proles will vote for anything, so long as you slap a nice-enough sounding name on top of it.

A compelling argument against universal suffrage if I ever heard one. Bring back the monarchy!

<sniffs quietly & wipes away nostalgic little tear>

Ahhh, the days of proper discussion and banter on gog :)

Thank you, this is a great game! Very much arcade-like action game. Nice, thanks :D

Fair enough. I do think there's a difference between people criticizing a game, and them saying that it shouldn't be allowed a platform, though.

Thank you GOG for the freebie. Already owned it on itch.io because of their mega bundle but it is always nice to have a GOG version.

For those who might have forgotten it: a videogame is harmless and won't hurt anybody - so play it or don't - claim it or don't ... but stop making more out of it than it is.

Well said.

I dislike the game/it's message and find it in poor taste that GOG sells it(and that they/the devs are giving it away) at the current time, but I don't think it should be entirely banned(there should imo be a content warning on the page and/or in game at least).

(aside: I feel grown adults should be able to sell/play near any game they want to as well)

Well... That's where we leave the topic of "freedom of expression" behind and enter into the field of ethics, or how our society should be.

Tonight We Riot is a game where you attack the police/state/system/rich to give "power to the people" - which basically means anarchy. You're part of one of the extreme left mobs we all know from the news. Those masked guys in black clothes. The people who throw bricks at the police, break into stores to loot them and light up cars. Those who don't give a crap about you. They just destroy your stuff because they think you're rich. Honestly? Fuck them!
A game that somehow promotes this kind of behaviour is..."highly questionable". I get that some people think we (as a society) shouldn't give stuff like this any platform.

Let's take another example. What would you think when GOG suddenly decides to sell "KZ Manager"? Shouldn't people be allowed to tell GOG how they feel about this? That games where you try to mass murder Jews in the most cost efficient way shouldn't be on the store? I think it'd be our goddamn responsibility to riot (pun intended) until GOG would remove that game!

And now there's the question whether Antifa and other extreme left groups are equally despicable as nazis... To some people they are. So I think they have the right to be upset about GOG having this game on their store.

As I said in an earlier post: I'm pretty good at ignoring political crap in games. To me it's just a game to have a few minutes of fun. I wouldn't have fun with KZ Manager, though. I guess that's where I draw the line.

It's an overtly socialist American game by an American developer based in Texas, which started development in 2018 and was released in 2020 and therefore had (has) everything to do with riots everywhere else in the world. You're either confused by the homage paid to Loukanikos the riot dog, willfully spreading false information, have no idea what you're talking about or replied to the wrong post in the wrong topic. It's an "incredibly important" day in many European cultures because it's an ancient festival of spring. Don't conflate it with its appropriation by socialists and communists.

A lot of apologia in this thread being made by German posters. Weird. Wonder if you'd be so equanimous if it were a game about, say, a crypto-AFD kicking economic migrants out of the country in a cartoony way.

Cough....LIBERATE HONG KONG , REVOLUTION OF OUR TIMES!
Let's fight for Democracy and Rule Of Law instead, my dudes!

www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3033108/us-house-approves-hong-kong-human-rights-and-democracy-act-senate
Did someone say Eat the Rich!??
youtu.be/sLWxzLrrMg0?t=300

It's already out, it's called Papers, Please.

That was fast.....maybe they have a time machine like everyone in the other thread i'm in? o.0

Now we just need the corporate logo DLC....here's hoping it's not too pricey.
(although to fit the game and it's devs it should be all kinds of free.....financial and drm)

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edit: come to think of it, shouldn't the game be free all the time? I mean...making money off of a game about socialism?

*pic related*

There's this game from Germany (mod for Half-Life 2):
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1378_(km]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1378_(km[/url])

You play an East German border guard (game ends though if you shoot someone, would have been too controversial otherwise I assume).

I disagree. To me, the notional of removing a game because of some perceived consequences is not justified. What's to say that playing Falcon 4 won't have us suddenly go up in an F16 and start blowing things up? Oh, right, normal people don't act out their video games in real life. We can say the message is unsavory, and I'll point out GOG's hypocrisy, but I sure as hell won't say it should be banned. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. I'd much rather bully gog into not rejecting games.