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Posted December 18, 2020
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Many gamers requested its removal.
Posted December 18, 2020
many gamer is copyrighted
Posted December 18, 2020
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mrkgnao: I agree. Let's be real. There are thousands of off-topic posts all across this forum. Nobody is going out of its way to delete them all.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Indeed, let's be real alright: if you were a dev who spent a long time making a game and also spent a lot of money in creating it, would you be okay with trolls spamming up your only dedicated thread for your game on the storefront where you are selling it, with offtopic posts that have zero relevance to your game, and which hijack the discussion there, so that has it has nothing at all to do with your game?

Even if you reply and say yes you would, the reality is, no, you wouldn't...not if you were really in that situation in real-life.
I agree it's not a nice thing to do to the developer. And as someone who has published things (not video games) in the past --- and suffered unrelated backlash for some of them --- I do know it feels bad.

But I also know that if it were my game and someone deleted this kind of post from my release thread, I'd feel worse.
Posted December 18, 2020
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Probably because it was offtopic trolling.

Note: I am not defending GOG in general; but I don't see anything wrong with them removing offtopic troll posts from the thread of a dev's game who has nothing to do with any controversy that GOG brought upon themselves.

That dev isn't to blame for anything that GOG did wrong, so why should that dev suffer via having the thread dedicated to promoting their game on GOG be hijacked by offtopic troll posts that are completely irrelevant to them and their game?
^This. I might have been one of them. Seriously people, the dev is a nice guy, kept posting updates on his game here. You ever think was this does to people like him, who has exactly no connection to that Devotion incident? Try putting yourself in his shoes, and then reading a message like that.
You suck, GOG community, would be my answer.

Posting "take this discussion to the Cyberpunk forums" over here was funny with all the promos and announcement. But in this case it hits people who are simply trying to make their game come true - what we are here for, no? - and they get hit with all the malice the forum can mount. It's sad and I'm ashamed of the post that got removed, and I'm glad it's gone.

Now downvote me to hell.
Posted December 18, 2020
I'll take "harmless posts that offends gamers" for 5000, thank you!
Posted December 19, 2020
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mrkgnao: About two hours ago, some user (not me) called "ManyGamers" posted in the "Hellish Quart" release thread the following sentence:
"I would like to formally request that this game be removed from the store".

As far as I can see, there was nothing wrong with this post. It might have been a subtle satire of some recent event, which as far as I know is allowed here, or it might have been a genuinely loyal member of the Metric regime understandably venting his or her ire at the release of a game with an Imperial title.

Still, shortly thereafter the post mysteriously disappeared. You can still see its traces because someone was quick enough to quote it (see attached image).

Can someone please explain to me why the post has disappeared?
There is a correlation between the post's disappearance and the recent disappearance of all good will towards GOG.
Posted December 19, 2020
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mrkgnao: Can someone please explain to me why the post has disappeared?
Is the user still active(as in not banned, etc)?

I ask as perhaps that user was a spam account, and GOG removed it(which afaik removes all that user's posts)?
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mrkgnao: Making something sticky on the forum, at least for me, is like making it invisible. I haven't looked at a sticky thread in years.
As to this, I must say(and no offense intended btw with this): It's not too hard to take a minute per day or every few days to check for new sticky threads.

(and sometimes it pays off, such as if a game gets delisted and they make a sticky for it)

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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Had GOG not deleted the trolling post, then there would have been a lot more than 'one post.'
Slippery slope fallacy....you have no way of proving that.

(btw other users make such posts get posted every week regardless of how many posts get removed)
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Posted December 19, 2020
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mrkgnao: Can someone please explain to me why the post has disappeared?
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GamezRanker: Is the user still active(as in not banned, etc)?

I ask as perhaps that user was a spam account, and GOG removed it(which afaik removes all that user's posts)?
As far as I know, they have already deleted his or her account. It was obviously an alt used for the quoted post (and perhaps only for it). That does not make it a spam account.

As I've said before, I agree that what the original poster wrote wasn't particularly nice (as is often the case for satire), but I don't believe it was a deleteable or bannable offence. I have no doubt that it would not have been deleted if the satire were aimed at, say, Steam, rather than GOG.
Posted December 19, 2020
I guess the right thing to do is to post that request in the Cyberpunk release thread.

I would gladly add my support to ManyGamers.
Posted December 19, 2020
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joppo: I guess the right thing to do is to post that request in the Cyberpunk release thread.

I would gladly add my support to ManyGamers.
Well. You can vote here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/remove_cyberpunk_2077_from_gog
and perhaps also here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/remove_gwent_from_gog
Posted December 19, 2020
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joppo: I guess the right thing to do is to post that request in the Cyberpunk release thread.

I would gladly add my support to ManyGamers.
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mrkgnao: Well. You can vote here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/remove_cyberpunk_2077_from_gog
and perhaps also here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/remove_gwent_from_gog
Done and done. I kinda just turned a blind eye to Gwent due to the multiplayer-only until now, but to be honest it has no place on Gog.

If CDPR is so keen on having their DRMed games so be it. But put them elsewhere. Do not taint the one big store that is (or rather, used to be) DRM-free.
Posted December 19, 2020
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TerriblePurpose: Many gamers requested its removal.
I think Winnie the Pooh complained that someone was pretending to be him on GoG.com...
Posted December 20, 2020
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mrkgnao: As far as I know, they have already deleted his or her account. It was obviously an alt used for the quoted post (and perhaps only for it). That does not make it a spam account.
My bad....I forgot to also mention that that user also could've been removed due to being an alt.

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mrkgnao: As I've said before, I agree that what the original poster wrote wasn't particularly nice (as is often the case for satire), but I don't believe it was a deleteable or bannable offence. I have no doubt that it would not have been deleted if the satire were aimed at, say, Steam, rather than GOG.
I agree that such harmless(imo, and I mean relatively speaking) posts shouldn't be deleted.
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