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General discussionBoycotting DRM and Game Censorship on GOG, 2021-2022(5216 posts) (5216 posts) 
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Posted March 04, 2022
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kbnrylaec: As long as Russian can't buy games here, I won't spend any penny here.
GOG think they can ban any people? Fine, I can ban GOG.
Let's wait and see how you gonna support russia when China will use the same tactics towards Taiwan and start bombing peaceful cities.
Posted March 04, 2022
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Time4Tea: Hey everyone, there have been a lot of posts in the thread over the past 48 hours or so. I haven't had time to read them all, but I get the jist.

I just want to state that this particular boycott thread is for the specific issues listed in the first post, which broadly relate to DRM and censorship. Whether you agree with GOG's recent moves to stop selling in Russia or not, that isn't what this boycott is focused on and it's possible that people who have already signed up to this one might fall on opposite sides of that fence.

If you want to boycott GOG over the recent decisions, that is fair enough, but I think it would be best if someone made a separate thread and list for that. Again, this thread and boycott were set up for specific reasons - it is not a general "I'm pissed off at GOG and I want to boycott" thread.

Thanks!
Hi, please take me off the list. I am not going to be associated with the propaganda machine that has taken over this and other threads. The problems with GOGs systems remain of course, but nothing has changed there in 2 or more years and with everything going n it’s not going to now.
Posted March 04, 2022
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SangreMuertos: Я предлагаю братьям славянам забить на английский язык и общаться здесь исключительно на русском языке. А если эти прихлебалы и просто дурачье хотят понимать что мы пишем, ну пусть используют переводчик.

Скажу так, те, кто в принципе более менее увлекаются политикой и геополитикой, тем понятно, что рано или поздно все равно это произошло бы. Не зря говорят "Если в начале пьесы на стене висит ружье, то (к концу пьесы) оно должно выстрелить". Учитывая сколько оружия завезли с Европы и США на Украину, было понятно, что если не мы первые вступим, то Украина начнет бомбить по полной, и один фиг мы бы вмешались, но жертв было бы гораздо больше. + грязная ядерная бомба это не пропаганда. это увы, факт.

А вот те, кто был все это время далек от политики, для тех да, Россия напала и бла-бла-бла.

а всем иностранным игрокам хотелось бы сказать "В глазу чужом - соринку видим, в своём - бревна не разглядим"
Вы посмотрите сколько разных стран ваши страны бомбили. Совесть не замучала? Я уж не говорю про США
Знаете мне что больше всего интересно. Ну к зиме, а то может и к осени, вся эта дебильная санкционная риторика в любом случае спадет, т.к санкциями они стреляют нам в ноги, и одновременно себе в голову. Как будет переобуваться тот же Steam, тот же ГОГ, и т.д. и т.п.)
Why are you writing to Russians only? This is the international forum,
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Skarborr: If you decide to vote then this will be visible on the main page (Community Wishlist):
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/please_dont_block_russia
Good to know. I did a duplicate, unwillingly
Post edited March 04, 2022 by marcob
Posted March 04, 2022
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I have always been fond of the Witcher series and the gog.com store. As a linux user, I like the ability to buy drm-free games. I bought all parts of the witcher in the gog and steam store and wanted to buy a new version of the witcher 3 on the xbox series. In total, I bought 86 games from gog.com. I did it because I believed cdpr was making good games, doing a good job promoting drm-free games. After the release of Cyberpank 2077, I began to doubt that this is the same company that made Witcher 1.2. My doubts were dispelled after the ban on players from Russia and Belarus to buy games. Behind the mask of a company that pretends to support SJW and BLM is a community of people that divides people into those who can buy the game and those who can't. Dear CDPR, I can live without your games, but can you live without our money and respect? You have made a huge mistake.
Posted March 04, 2022
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Skarborr: Is it mandatory now to slip virtue signalling into every hobby?
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GamezRanker: 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.
Companies Pushing agendas are a daily thing in the United States.

Honestly, I'm not surprised this is coming from Poland based company. They have a long bad history with Russia.
Post edited March 04, 2022 by Syphon72
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Syphon72: Honestly, I'm not surprised this coming from Poland based company. They have a long bad history with Russia.
Its not just CD Projekt though. Bloober Team (owners of The Medium & Blair Witch), EA & Microsoft are also taking the same stance as CD Projekt.
Posted March 04, 2022
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Syphon72: Honestly, I'm not surprised this coming from Poland based company. They have a long bad history with Russia.
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RoboPond: Its not just CD Projekt though. Bloober Team (owners of The Medium & Blair Witch), EA & Microsoft are also taking the same stance as CD Projekt.
It's why I said you will need to be boycotting a lot of companies because of this. It's why I think shitting on GOG overs it is dumb.
Post edited March 04, 2022 by Syphon72
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Syphon72: I know this is why said you will need to be boycotting a lot of companies over this. It's why I think shitting on GOG overs this is dumb.
I'm not dis-agreeing with you over it. I think exactly that, I was just pointing out that its not just CDP that is blocking Russia & Belarus.
Post edited March 04, 2022 by RoboPond
Posted March 04, 2022
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Here's a list of companies besides GOG y'all can boycott from now on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_boycott_of_Russia_and_Belarus
Post edited March 04, 2022 by Rineux
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Rineux: Here's a list of companies besides GOG y'all can boycott from now on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_boycott_of_Russia_and_Belarus
Thx! Very handy guide!
Posted March 04, 2022
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Rineux: Here's a list of companies besides GOG y'all can boycott from now on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_boycott_of_Russia_and_Belarus
Intel and AMD are on the list. We better start pulling out our CPU guys. haha
Posted March 04, 2022
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There is no place for politics in games! It should bring fun for people, create opportunities for communication, help people hear each other. It should not create hatred on the basis of national hostility. Your actions is durty and hypocritically! What happens in the World now is terrible and disgusting catastrophe! Now is very important to support each other! It isn't a place for speculation and PR! Ordinary russian players were always on your side! They protect and support you even when you had failures! They not involved in this conflict and never want to! And now your better deсision - separate people and stir up an arguments on forum! NO POLITICS IN GAMES!
Posted March 04, 2022
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"no platforming" disgusts me. It's impractical to boycott everything that does it, but I try to do so where I can on general principle. It also avoids risk - who's to say what the propaganda will be next week?

What alternatives do people recommend to GOG?
Post edited March 04, 2022 by filbs111
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filbs111: "no platforming" disgusts me. It's impractical to boycott everything that does it, but I try to do so where I can on general principle. It also avoids risk - who's to say what the propaganda will be next week?

What alternatives do people recommend to GOG?
You may find this topic useful:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_video_games_digital_distributors/post1

It lists various alternatives and will note the degree of "DRM-free"ness. Personally I think DRM-free is more important than GOG in and of itself, so I discourage people from using Scheme or Epic Fail (even the games that can be played without client using workarounds or whatever). Your mileage may vary. If I had to pick a single store I would say Zoom-Platform is the biggest purely DRM-free store, and recently just got some really nice looking releases like Daymare 1998 (which has been available on GOG for quite some time, but is a big deal for a smaller store). I have also had positive experiences buying from individual developers on their own sites (some are listed in the topic I linked).
Posted March 04, 2022
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rjbuffchix: No, it isn't hard! This is exactly what I was referring to with my last comment, which promptly got buried under more of this political signaling garbage on all sides.

Here are two examples:

1. "I am boycotting GOG because GOG is blocking Russian/Belorussian purchases."

2. "I am boycotting GOG because GOG is blocking Russian/Belorussian purchases, now please listen to my thesis statement/doctorate about what I think of Putin, various countries, who is at fault right now, and what I learned in history class."

See the difference? The second example is obviously not what we need here while the first is okay (and could probably even add a very brief, concise explanation within the same sentence, stopping there).
GOG could have chosen to explain that this was due to economic reasons. Hear the ruble isn't worth much these days. Still, controversial and people would be pissed.

They chose to make a political statement... VIRTUE SIGNAL and 'take a stand', kind of like they did with the Marxist BLM organization and they expect people not to discuss THEIR announcement in detail? Height of hypocrisy.

Both of your examples are political statements. One is just in more detail. People are going to be pissed about gas prices, let alone what GOG is doing to the Russians and what the Ukrainians are experiencing and you want to lecture people about not being too political here? While I don't have a problem not going in to detail, I sure as HELL am not going to give either country's members flak for being vocal about the situation.
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