A bunch of incel sad sacks are review bombing this game instead of getting themselves outside to live in the real world. Pretty sad, but it's a solid argument that reviews should come from verified owners of the game on this platform.

Ironic creating a post talking about toxic behaviour using insults and toxic language,

Ratings in GoG already show information on reviews and ratings coming from verified owners or not. Allowing a broader audience to rate games it's not bad. It could be upgraded with more filters for example, but censorship should not be the first thing to come to mind.

People not owning the game in this platform can give valuable info still, maybe it's own in a different platform, maybe has watched hours of gameplay, maybe has decided not to buy it because the game has something very wrong in the EULA, or other reasons. Maybe it's even a political review that you disagree with and actually manages to convince people to buy it against the reviewer intent, could be anything really. More info is better.

Always thinking about censorship this people....

I rated this post as positive by mistake btw, could be a good feature to allow undo that lol.

And you are a solid anti-censorship argument.

lol :D

elementary website moderation that existed since forver and the usual suspects cry "censorship!!!!"

anyway, up until yesterday a very valuable and informative review was posted under this game, the review stated that "Hitler was right" (I'm not even kidding, it was just that). Now it's not there anymore so I assume someone at GOG must have made the bare minimum effort in moderation, since even the valuable reviews from newly made accounts made only to reviewbomb this game are still there.

So I would suggest that the people complaining about "censorship" right here in this thread file a complaint to GOG support that one of their friends is being "censored" and they won't stand for "censoring" valuable information like "Hitler was right" because "more info is better" and basic moderation, I mean "censorship", is bad.

It's very telling that the exact same people who are preaching freedom, inclusion, diversity and all about that are most of the times the very same ones, who are calling for censorship of other people's opinions.

And kickstart their calls for that with insults.

on a related side note, these forums should (like steam) show an icon in a game's specific hub if someone owns the game. that was a good feature valve introduced and so should gog. again, just some icon (next to user avatar or user name) that makes it clear that someone posting (via forums when logged in) owns the game at that time.

and not that it matters, but me being me, i have the game (x2) simply as a collector. for sure, this game is a special one indeed. a must have as collector. remember too, "collector" means different things to different people.

Whines about toxicity while supporting review bombing from gamergate chuds.

I also don't understand why we have to refer to insults so often nowadays ...
Those who have arguments should not even have to refer to insults - imo this is a sign of not having any arguments anymore.

I do understand why people get emotionally invested in the way this game is review bombed but we should not forbid opinions. However I think that these opinions should be rooted in actual experiences of the game in question and at the very least (and that is part of GOGs review rules) the review should be about the game and mentioning parts of the game: what's good, what's bad and so on. "Hitler was right" has nothing to do with any game ... and unfortunately MANY of these "reviews" are like these. As I said there are rules for reviews on GOG and if people don't comply to these rules it is absolutely fair and correct if GOG should remove those ... simply because these are not reviews at all. So in general the problem imo is not if the review is from a verified owner or not (some might have played the game on other platforms and might want to warn or recommend the game to others) - the problem right now is that many reviews in the case of Dustborn can hardly be called "review" at all. If GOG would clean those things might look different already and I am pretty sure that GOG will do so when staff is back from their holidays.

Only one whining is the one creating a thread asking to censor people's opinion ;)

I just point out you lack arguments and the facts that you are reduced to insults is just another example of it.

Cry a river chud.

Adding a means to filter out non-owner reviews would suffice.

You should already have this option (I'm attaching a screenshot to help you see where it is :)).

I understand the notion of non-owners adding reviews - especially with GOG's reduced userbase (and unfriendly review system), but I believe that verified users' ratings should be the default score for game pages. Anything else is just looking for a 2nd(?) opinion or confirmations :)

Well you have the verified owners score, as mentioned before.
But here comes the paradox, is the game really a 4.7/5 because a couple of activists like you bought it, and now maybe 10 people are inflating the score because no one else wants to touch this turd?

That's not a "paradox". If you don't own it and haven't played it then you have nothing to say about it and your rant is not a "review".

One can own a game and never have it registered by GOG.