Hadn't checked GOG for few months and seems like GOG has made a good decision for change. Lots of Russians (and Belorussians) angry. Sucks for Belorussians, their dictator sold Belarus to Putin and are now under occupation and now they can't even buy games. But that is what you get when you are forced to live in Russia.

I am tempted to buy a game from GOG as a reward.

Not that GOG had much options anyway. Sanctions and all that. Plus Russian inflation is running wild, Russian shops adjusting prices twice a day now I hear.

Yeah. Whether or not one supports a boycott, Russia is (afaik) easy to boycott; what about boycotting China over the treatment of the Uyghurs?

Has there been any recent mainstream media that has Chinese as the "bad guys"?

Think the last game I played with China being the bad guys was operation flashpoint dragon rising and red river. Home front was going to have china as the invaders before they chicken out.

I mean you don't need a thread open to keep boycotting. Just stop buying from GOG and don't come back.

Try to debunk this:

Ukraine signed Minsk. Minsk had two warrant sides - France and Russia. The opponents in Minsk are very clear: a) Ukraine (Kiew) b) Ukraine (East).

Minsk was signed to to Ukraine(Kiew) loosing a lot of men, not Ukraine(East) loosing a lot of men in 6 cattles.

Minsk first peace implementation paragraph says: full ceasefire. Ukraine(East) did that. They had an internal law of prosecuting anyone shooting or shooting back by criminal codex. Ukraine(Kiew) ignored that and continued attacking.

Minsk second peace implementation paragraph says: transfer of all large caliber artillery away. Ukraine (Kiew) didn't do that, Ukraine (East) did that.

On 24.02.2022 Putin in direct speech accused West in sabotaging Minsk process.

Yesterday, 3.03.2022 Lavrov directly accused France in allowing Ukraine(Kiew) to ignore Minsk by adding Russia as a side of conflict.

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Next, Budapest agreements, open RAW ORIGINAL text. Read the paragraph 6. They did exactly that.
Sorry, I only now saw your post. I am out.

Was going to come buy a game from GOG as I support DRM free games. The current actions of the company goes against everything they should stand for. I will be boycotting GOG until further notice. The media is spinning webs of misinformation like never before(and people eat it up). Russia and their actions aren't without their own set of condemnations, but the media has ignored the many peace treaties Ukraine violated; along with the massive arming of Ukraine by the west. If Russia to were arm Mexico(China is supplying cartels with Fentanyl that is killings hundreds of thousands Americans a year, and it's ignored) or Ireland with weapons in the interest of destabilizing the US or UK the world would be outraged. I also suggest people look into Putin. Who is he, who are his ties with, and who are the Oligarchs? Look up Chabad and the influence that group has in Russia(and EVERY western county as well). There is so much info being ignored and purposefully skewed. However, like normal, the masses display that they are easily controlled and exude ignorance. We live in a world that praises The Dunning–Kruger effect and Cognitive dissonance on a level never before seen n history.

I mean, its kind of hard to not drag politics into the thread when GOG has taken a political stance on the home page and more people are boycotting DIRECTLY due to said political stance...

And then GOG(company) went and discriminated against all russians/belarusians by banning all sales to gamers from those countries in a round of pointless virtue signaling......sad times, indeed. :\ :(

I'm trying.....believe me, I am trying.

I'll keep the political talk to a minimum as there are other threads for that and I left an opinion in one earlier today. I'm already on the boycott list but sign me up for the double boycott or recursive boycott or something.

Blocking law-abiding customers with their own various opinions about current events because they're in a particular country doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

Or the alternative is that GOG has a terrible PR team. Perhaps with sanctions and a currency in flux they thought it best to pause business and limit financial exposure. Nobody likes that but it's hard to argue. When a natural disaster strikes or inclimate weather we all begrudgingly understand that roads close, flights are canceled, and normal business shuts down to varying degrees. I mean the whole planet just did that for the past two years with COVID-19 (not saying good or bad but that it happened). If that's the case GOG. just say some corporate "at this time...due to current events...monitoring a rapidly changing situation...thank you for your continued understanding", because otherwise it looks a lot like punishing/alienating customers who have zero input on the choices their leaders make.

I was reading some comments to catch up on the news, before posting something and... Damn Gamez, this place is burning with hatred!
Yesterday I was trying to justify GOG and try to calm down that user, and in less than 24hs GOG do all the opposite of what I said and created all this chaos...
Well... I'm not losing nothing for try... GOG, you don't have to send my $1.000.000 to my bank account. I'll be really offended if you do that! Last warning!
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Question: how does/would banning the taking of money from russian/etc gamers affect the situation in that part of the world in any actual way?

In the end, this move is mostly pointless signaling by GOG to try and gain some PR points on social media and the like.

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Why would GOG need to change rules that only apply to customers? ;)

GOG has been pushing it's agenda like this (in things like some game releases/contests/etc) for several years now....this is sadly nothing new here.

By boycotting terrorist #1 russia, GOG redeemed itself over Devotion situation. I'm supporting GOG much more and gonna buy games I previously didn't want to (cause have them on Steam).

Shows who actually has some power and influence in the world (China) and who's just talk, no muscle (russia).

To all who boycotts GOG over russia's terrorist actions - CDPR is POLAND. Poland is next in line after Ukraine in putin's plan to conquer and destroy Europe.
Article 5 isn't working. NATO is impotent. USA is weak.

GOG can fuck itself. I didn't buy games for quite a while now and by this insane "we punish people for living in some country" bullshit made up by CDPR fuckheads they surely wouldn't sell anything to me in the future. How braindead you must be to punish random people for their location?

I live in Ukraine. I was supporting GoG for years, preferring to buy here over Steam. But now I won't give a single cent to GoG. I cannot support the company that engages in hatemongering and bullying. Besides, Ukrainians were dying in a conflict for years. Yet CDProject decided to "support" us only when they thought it will bring them good PR. What a disgusting and disingenuous move.