It's OK. We all know that you and the ones that follow you are engaging in a faux boycott of GoG as you are still purchasing from GoG. No matter how many times you and your ilk try to justify your actions, the fact remains that your boycott is false. I will remain here to inform others who are interested in joining your cause that they should avoid it if they are truly interested in boycotting GoG due to your duplicitous nature.

Well some seemed/seem to just dislike/etc that the "leader" of the thread isn't boycotting to their standards, and voiced their concerns....some even did so somewhat civilly.

That said, the effect was close to the same(derailing the thread somewhat......although to be fair some of us added to that as well by replying), which is why I think we should just stick to the topics at hand as best as possible :)

I take the freebies from Epic... didn't spent money there.
As GOG tries to be Steam.. but fails hard and abandoned it's principles.. i simply lifted my restriction not to use Steam. Got a humble choice running, bought some Games on shops or Steam, i'm normaly into the old stuff anyway.
Beside that Gaming is huge and for someone interested in older stuff the sea is endless.
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edit: interesting, does some botter(s) downvote every post in this thread.

The point I'm concerned about is that making it easier to be a boycotter comes at the expense of how much impact it has, which has nothing to do with semantics. If this was an effective boycott GOG would have acknowledged it.

Results are the only thing that matters to me.

As I stated a multitude of times before, I am all for boycotts. I have quite a few companies on my boycott list, including Steam. However, I'm against people who claim they're boycotting yet still buying things from the place they they are "boycotting". That means their boycott is a flat-out lie, which the OP's boycott of GoG is just that, a flat-out lie.

Just as not all strikes are total stoppages of work (there are slowdowns, for instance), a boycott isn't necessarily a 100% cessation.

Actually, it is. To do anything less does not send the same message. If one stops purchasing anything from said company, then the company knows that person is dissatisfied with them. If one purchases less from said company, then they company could think that the person just doesn't want to purchase as many things, or can't purchase as many things currently due to either lack of funds or issues with life. A true boycott sends the message clearly. The justification/fake boycott sends a confused message. Psychology 101.

TBH that whole paragraph sounds beta as fuck and should be scrapped.

It's very interesting how biased moderation here is following people they don't like around to "not derail off too much" from topics/threads/already explained stuff - and it's only for those that could put GOG decisions into a bad light.

They are absolutely ignoring people doing as such - if they are defending GOG for any reason at the same time. This guy is not arguing at all, but literally harassing people (and people not even joined yet :D) with already explained stuff to him directly many times and he chose to ignore that. There is a difference at some point and he crossed it a long time ago. And he is stating that he is here to harass people and.. no one cares for defending of rights of boycotters in this thread? Isn't that suspicious? From a spam?

If he already warned people in a forum with a HISTORY, he doesn't have to literally be here and do that the all time to just point out some old info to every newcomer. He is on purposed repeat. He is a spam.

It's also interesting how, for example, thread "YouTube's age-restricted videos" has been closed with "I will lock this thread, as it was necroed by a spambot :)" (while this thread is like from June of the last year - I think Susan got mad and warned about it) but the thread "Anime Recommendations?" (made in 2012 with last post in 2019) was kept alive with worse circumstances. Even while it was called out (and spam from it was removed - so it was seen by the moderator and he confirmed that in the thread 'WE ARE UNDER ATTACK again'). It was called out that this is happening for a reason - because they are trying to push anime porn here so it looks like people are interested into it so they are bumping-out old threads to give it a "look". With "spambots" or whatever hell it is. Even one guy in the thread being on a mission for pushing underaged anime games here kept talking in it while touching the fact it's the very that reason why is he there (agenda to make it look like people care about anime - in spite of knowing it's an old thread).

Like GOG already had absolutely zero credibility for me and it's not getting better.

Without 'forum games' and threads like "what are you reading" (topics you can use anytime without any ideas, because they don't really have a topic) here wouldn't be that much of positive for GOG on the main site of this forum and I like how those mentioned topics happen to be super active if people are mad about something here and somehow it happens it so quickly flies down to the abbyss.

"Nothing to see here."

You may be right......still, there are other uses for this sort of thread as well: it allows those participating to have their views/etc heard by Gog/others, and also gives those participating a place to come together and talk about the issues at hand with like minded individuals......both of which are imo valid reasons to keep this going, even if it isn't changing much atm.

I'm not saying it hasn't done any good, just that I think it could be improved. So yeah, I agree with what you're saying.

Peace.

literally the only thing they will notice are the beans not being counted; if they want to mislead themselves as to why, hey it's their company & they can go under if they want to. :P

Consider that not only is the number of people participating a multiplier on average lost spending, but anyone participating, even someone who make no changes in spending, can still help with visibility.

The number of people participating (especially if significantly reducing their spending) has way, way, way more financial impact than whether each individual protester is following a 100% zero tolerance, no-spending policy.

Info for Time4Tea: On the list of people who are boycotting, the user Witch2Gog6 is listed twice, as 92) and 115).

Edit: Same goes for the user 5P34R, who is 77) and 116).

Second edit: Also, the user gargus is listed twice as 30) and 82).

I will repost my message because you intentionally ignored it: To do anything less than a true boycott does not send the same message. If one stops purchasing anything from said company, then the company knows that person is dissatisfied with them. If one purchases less from said company, then they company could think that the person just doesn't want to purchase as many things, or can't purchase as many things currently due to either lack of funds or issues with life. A true boycott sends the message clearly. The justification/fake boycott sends a confused message. Psychology 101.
So, he's padding the numbers. It doesn't matter since all of them are engaging in a faux boycott as they are all still buying games from GoG.