Welcome to Hell.

Unless you know something I don't, I don't really think it was on purpose, especially given that they deleted it before everything started blowing up unlike the others times.

Check the image of the tweet I posted. The final sentence makes it clear that Linko knew what the hashtag was, so that's definitely not it. On top of that, it's a social media professional's job to understand these things.

Less 'marketing' and more actual games and stability on gog!

And I cry b.s. There is nothing contained in that tweet that suggests any hatred of trans folks. As others have mentioned, the Twitter account has frequently co-opted appropriate worded hashtags in the past to promote DRM-free gaming. And I really don't see this "great harm" or "transphobia" in claiming that promoting DRM-free and classic games is preventing them from being erased.

So it was Linko? Are you sure about that and isn't he new on gog? wasn't this his first tweet like that.

You really have a thing against Linko. We don't know it was Linko.

Hello all,

And it's another day coming to the forum looking for informations regarding videogames just to see it all derailed in another political storm.

Staying far away from mass media and twitter is not protecting me enough about these kind of drama.

So yeah, what if majors publishers start to reject GoG ? What's going to happen in the long run ? Will we loose everything we purchased as it would be the case in any DRM platform ?

I mean, sure, as long as GoG is still running you could download your .exe and goodies but if they're shutting down and everything falls flat how will I legally reach the 100+ games I've yet to download once on a dead server ?

Seeing how a tweet can lead to everybody jumping at each other throat, yeah, I easily could see GoG disapearing as a likely scenario.

Now I personally do not care about those kind of online outburst, I'm more concerned about my trans friend being physically beat down in the streets and nobody trying to help. It's nice to see people wanting to defend a cause on the internet and I hope it's a sincere move from non-trans individual and not just some kind of PR-Karma thingy, but yeah, before the internet image, I see more problems in my daily life than some words.

But again, don't get offended by what I say, I'm not trying to convince anybody.

I actually don't have anything against Linko, and I have no idea why you would think I do. I actually find Linko highly likeable and have talked to him at length.

As for knowing it was Linko, helming the social media accounts is literally his job. Checking in on us is only a tiny fraction of his responsibilities. Beyond that, he responded personally previously when someone said that the GOG Twitter account was full of edgelord 4chan memes by stating he'd never been on 4chan.

Look at the tweet again: "Classic PC games #WontBeErased on our watch. Yeah, how's that for some use of hashtags?"

The second sentence makes it extremely clear that they used this prominent hashtag on purpose. And if they still didn't check it before using it (which is extremely unlikely in my opinion), they absolutely deserve the shitstorm they got.

At least you replied to me this time ;)

But Linko will not be the only one with that role. Aside from elcook whos role seeing as hes pr would also be the social media side of things as thats pr, there would also most likely be more people who don't use the forums that are also pr/social media.

No business only uses one person for social media now days.

All you are doing is spouting a bunch of words to stifle a discussion. You are the one being irrational here by attacking particular words in lieu of of an actual discussion. They are clearly exaggerating their complaint and doing so in a way to spout off their own "virtues" by demanding more of an apology than was provided. That's the very definition of "virtue signaling". It doesn't take "mind-reading" to see what they are doing. GoG already apologized, but the only thing these people will be happy with is an admission of guilt when its not clear there is any more to the story. And of course if GoG would come out and admit to it, the response would still be the same "I told you so".

That's who they're going after. A RetardEra admin who goes by the Twitter handle Hecht_ERA_ allegedly helped dig up Linko's doxx in retaliation for the tweet.

Protip: if you add a reply to someone via edit several minutes after you post, it's extremely likely that person won't see it. Additionally, only the reply button generates a notification, quote tags do not. I'd already read your original post before you edited it, and the thread had moved on. I had no idea you'd directed a comment at me until now.