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Posted February 23, 2012
Between the arrival of some new faces like irawesome, and the sudden outburst of accusations (which may or may not be true) of troll, commentary of disrespect on the site, and the focus of this thread, on how people used to treat each other on here.

Frankly, I don't care to look through 600 something pages of forum to get the full understanding, but you all have me curious to what the site used to be like.

So, for this, senior members, tell us newbies stories of what the forum was like, what it was like as a new user, your favorite members on here. Newbie people, let's hear stories and thoughts of how you see the forum, what brought you here, and any particular favorite memory. Let's see if we can get a bit of everyone in here. For fun, let's see who considers themselves newbie and senior. I consider myself newbie because despite my account's age I've really only gotten active in this site since the Christmas sales 3 months ago.
Posted February 23, 2012
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/the_tale_of_vagabond_many_dongs_an_epic_gog_saga/page1
To my understanding, it was something like that.
Posted February 23, 2012
My favourite series of epic win threads:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/pumpkin_the_sequel_to_cake/page1
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/pumpkins_2010/page1
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/pumpkins_2011/page1

But then, there have always been moments of high drama. It's just that there were less of them before. Here's the first (as far as I recall) really dramatic thread on the forum:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/arx_fatalis_and_why_gog_is_far_from_as_high_minded_and_moral_as_it_says_or_as_we/page1
Posted February 23, 2012
I came to the forums literally only months before the "incident" dun-dun-duuuuun

It was cool. Fine people talking about anything that came up. There were serious discussions, funny free-for-all's, awesome giveaways, great contests, you know, like now. It's not all that different now, but there wasn't so much breeze in the room, if you know what I mean. A lot more people know about the site now, so there are a lot new members. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but you feel the difference.
Posted February 23, 2012
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/how_i_traded_my_steam_account_for_a_sandwich/page1

One of my favourite threads ever and one of the first great things I saw on GOG when I discovered this website
Posted February 23, 2012
I was a lurker for much of my first year or two here. GOG was posting regular "The best of community" updates that featured community threads that caught the eye of the staff. That was enjoyable.
Posted February 23, 2012
There's this: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/marcin_iwinski_meme/page1
The above even got official: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/marcin_meme_contest/page1
There's also this: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/how_to_eat_a_sock_starring_captfitz/page1
And we found a Giant diplodocus feeds [on] sheep glands shooting diatrymas forwards, holding green shelves disintegrating for good horses salvation dinner [in] gratifying forest hay.

There was also a link to the wanted list at the community frontpage.
Posted February 23, 2012
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Wishbone: But then, there have always been moments of high drama. It's just that there were less of them before. Here's the first (as far as I recall) really dramatic thread on the forum:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/arx_fatalis_and_why_gog_is_far_from_as_high_minded_and_moral_as_it_says_or_as_we/page1
Wow, that was some downrepping in this thread. And he wasn't worse than what I've seen here recently. So downrepping is a time honored tradition. ;-)

And Arx was $ 9.99 when it was released.
Posted February 23, 2012
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QC: Between the arrival of some new faces like irawesome, and the sudden outburst of accusations (which may or may not be true) of troll, commentary of disrespect on the site, and the focus of this thread, on how people used to treat each other on here.

Frankly, I don't care to look through 600 something pages of forum to get the full understanding, but you all have me curious to what the site used to be like.

So, for this, senior members, tell us newbies stories of what the forum was like, what it was like as a new user, your favorite members on here. Newbie people, let's hear stories and thoughts of how you see the forum, what brought you here, and any particular favorite memory. Let's see if we can get a bit of everyone in here. For fun, let's see who considers themselves newbie and senior. I consider myself newbie because despite my account's age I've really only gotten active in this site since the Christmas sales 3 months ago.
I am not that long here (1.5 years) and I just read and post in some topics.... but in the past the user base was a bit smaller and the way of speeking with each other was a bit more like in a family- but not that much - it seems to me.

Instead of Steam the dominant topic was piracy and if the lack of DRM will influence it to the better or worse. There were more threads about specific games and Impulse was still popular and somewhat recommended. There were a bit more topics on actual political things or something else in the news. Anyone remember the amok run in Norwegia or the earthquake in Japan? There were many funny threads with at first glance almost nonsensical content.

Just have a look at this thread:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/how_to_eat_a_sock_starring_captfitz
Post edited February 23, 2012 by Trilarion
Posted February 23, 2012
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Trilarion: Just have a look at this thread:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/how_to_eat_a_sock_starring_captfitz
I knew this thread would have come up again sooner or later! =D
Post edited February 23, 2012 by WBGhiro
Posted February 23, 2012
It used to be small with a few dozen regular posters, now it's swarming with regular posters.
Posted February 23, 2012
Well... out of the many interesting/good threads, here's one of the ones I found a really cool idea. However, as our list of owned games grew ever steadily, it became abandoned.
Oh, and, also there was this.

(Oh, and before some funny member posts this as the "greatest thread ever" or something like that, do not EVER go to this thread without proper mental preparation.)
Posted February 23, 2012
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Vagabond: It used to be small with a few dozen regular posters, now it's swarming with regular posters.
I see what you did there...
Posted February 23, 2012
It seemed to get shitty after the whole "haha fooled you we're not closing" thing that GOG thought was a brilliant idea. It was more community-driven before then, I suppose.
Posted February 23, 2012
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michaelleung: It seemed to get shitty after the whole "haha fooled you we're not closing" thing that GOG thought was a brilliant idea. It was more community-driven before then, I suppose.
Absolutely. The fake shut-down was the turning point to the current GOG.
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