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pkk234: Keeping the purple dot active.
wonder what would happen if it goes out , but we wont see a gog employee has to press a button every hour to keep it alive
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Darvond: As toxicTom said, GOG appears to be too busy defending Poland's damnable sense of Nationalist Pride instead of ascribing to just hiring internationally like a sane company would.
no way you are not dtgreene

what wrong with nationalism btw? Should they sell out if it means worse for their homeland?
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: So, what's to stop a pirate for opening a new GOG account with each purchase refund? How would GOG "keep tabs" on that?

Rather, GOG would think each new case is a new person requesting a refund for the first time ever.
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Sarafan: It's possible to keep track of multiple accounts even if they're made from different IP addresses. Of course someone from the staff has to suspect that the specified account is made by the same person. A new account with a single purchase with a request for a refund is quite suspicious in the first place however, so I presume it would be double checked instantly.
there is no way they could do that , or there would be not so many dvoter alts here
and how would they track it?
Everything can be spoofed from the user side, the hardest would be make different payment sources, I bet that is possible too
Post edited July 31, 2021 by Orkhepaj
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Orkhepaj: Everything can be spoofed from the user side, the hardest would be make different payment sources, I bet that is possible too
You're right on this one. It takes some effort to do so however. As for the multiple accounts, I don't know what system GOG uses. These are only my presumptions. It's easy to fake an IP address these days, so I know there are some methods that allow to detect such things. I don't know whether GOG uses them.
Post edited July 31, 2021 by Sarafan
Vodka.
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RallyLancerX: What is a GOGBear?
Some will tell you GOG is staffed by real people, but this is in fact one of the largest conspiracies/best kept secretes. It's all run by GOGBears, from a secluded meadow somewhere in the primordial eastern-european woods of Poland.
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Timboli: If you ever have a GOG web page fail to load for some reason, you see the GOGBear.

Can happen a lot when GOG servers are overwhelmed.
Their portrayal of the Atlas GOGBear, the finest warrior in their ranks, on that webpage is a clear violation of the masquerade that has somehow gone tolerated by the Camarilla!

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tfishell: Every single person here is 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% correct in anything they wrote
Exactly!
Post edited July 31, 2021 by WinterSnowfall
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: So, what's to stop a pirate from opening a new GOG account with each purchase refund? How would GOG "keep tabs" on that?
Chiefly, the payment method.

Do you honestly think GOG didn't look deeply into all this before granting us a refund option?
Or are you saying they are in league with the pirates?

I doubt they would offer it if they could not police it properly. Logic implies that.
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what resources?

any money gog/cdpr makes goes almost always straight into the pockets of some sh#tty spineless ceo's and greedy shareholders. there are no resources to fix something like website, forum, games. and the little resources gog may has, is used for moronic stuff like profiles, telemetry, galaxy, pointless sales without discounts, pr (mostly lying to the customers) ... basically if there's a stupid, moronic and useless idea, then gog is your man or woman or whatever ...
Post edited August 01, 2021 by apehater
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RallyLancerX: What is a GOGBear?
Guaranteed Theodore Fourohfourski aka the GOG bear: https://www.gog.com/galaxy/linux
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CMiq: Hookers and blow.
Also Blackjack.
Sex tours to Thailand.

Clearly they are not investing in bringing older games back to life.
Post edited August 02, 2021 by Jorev
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Jorev: Sex tours to Thailand.

Clearly they are not investing in bringing older games back to life.
with that much money thailand comes to them
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Crosmando: GOG or CDP? Because I doubt GOG is very profitable.
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Sarafan: GOG alone made a record profit in 2020 (around 20,5 million PLN, that gives us around 5,2 million USD).
lol that's nothing
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RallyLancerX: I doubt its the Galaxy development, because we haven't had any substantial updates for a very long time. Can't be the forums either, as I don't notice any substantial updates either. Securing new titles? The website? Cyberpunk refunds?
According to https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2016/04/strategy-en-v2.pdf (and other sources) one of the main purposes of GOG is to support CDPR games:

Technological support for new CD PROJEKT RED development projects, including customized solutions for
multiplayer gaming and other online features.

As CDPR is planning lotsa "online" stuff for their future (and possibly also existing - especially CP2077) games they will likely use Galaxy for that. But I wouldnt expect them to release any news about it before both sides are done. As CDPR is (far as I understand) currently busy with other stuff this may take a while yet. So even if GOG is secretly working on Galaxy stuff for CDPR games - this doesnt mean they let the public know about it until the time is "right".
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RallyLancerX: Or are there no resources to speak of? Share your takes.
GOG made losses in Q1 2021 so I am not sure about 'resources'. 2020 was only profitable due to Cyberpunk and as the immediately following quartal was not I would say its fair to say that this(Edit: "this" meaning the CP2077 money boost, not the profitability) was a "one time event". But if GOGs resources are insufficient then CDP is probably funding anything necessary for CDPR games with CDPR profits.
Post edited August 02, 2021 by Zrevnur
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Crosmando: lol that's nothing
If you compare that to Steam, then yes. But GOG isn't Steam. It's a much smaller company, which has different priorities. Financial results are in the background. The platform is more like a place for experiments and a way of communication with gamers. Do you think that all of the Alphabet (owner of Google) subsidiaries bring profit? Some of them are pure experiments which focus less on financial results and more on introducing new things on the market. Of course the scale is incomparable, but the general rule is quite similar.
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Zrevnur: 2020 was only profitable due to Cyberpunk
That's not fully correct. Every year in GOG's history was profitable. The results differ according to year, but they never went to a loss in the yearly perspective.

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Zrevnur: and as the immediately following quartal was not I would say its fair to say that this(Edit: "this" meaning the CP2077 money boost, not the profitability) was a "one time event".
Once again I can't agree. GOG will draw profits from CP2077 for a long time. The loss in the Q1 2021 doesn't prove that I'm wrong. We're still before the release of free and paid DLCs which will increase the sale of the game. We also have to keep in mind that CP2077 in the future will be frequently available at a lower price, which will also stimulate player interest. I can bet that the interest in the GOTY version of the game will be huge.
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Sarafan: That's not fully correct. Every year in GOG's history was profitable. The results differ according to year, but they never went to a loss in the yearly perspective.
Technically correct, but 'breaking slightly above even' is a more accurate description than "profitable" when talking to anyone. For example, in Feb 2019, GOG laid off a dozen staff after the realized they made 0.021% annual net profit after taxes in 2018 (30k PLN).