B1tF1ghter: For the record:
I wasn't the first one to use "many gamers" term.
Almost everybody taking part in conversations related to it in few existing threads refers to the ordeal like that.
It's more of a mental shortcut instead of deliberate misquote (at least for me personally).
Breja: Also, just because that's how my brain works, I keep thinking of it as a refrence to the "many bothans" line from Return of the Jedi, about the
"many bothans" who died to bring the rebelion the info about the new Death Star. And of course the info was fake, supplied by the evil empire. See the connection?
As in: "we GOG listened to 'community's' voice and protected you customers from this rampant evil, we showed our bravery and dedication to customer feedback"? (I am being extremely sarcastic obviously, I deliberately mocked the word customers/community here)
Except the cake (GOG's implied goodwill) was a lie?
Because that's how from
my perspective it looks how GOG would want people to see their actions.
And it's bloody disgusting.
B1tF1ghter: For the record:
I wasn't the first one to use "many gamers" term.
Hexchild: Not claiming you were. It's been bothering me for a while, and your post just happened to be the one I quoted.
B1tF1ghter: The thing is, the original quote is so pretenciously imprecise it leaves too much room for interpretation to begin with.
It's awfully vague and used phrasing is questionable at best.
You can't exactly draw "good" conclusions out if it.
Simply put the provided details are scarce and bogus.
There is so much wrong with the original tweet that one could attempt to write a very short book on it.
Let's face it, it's BS. And the used words only make things less clear and more prone to "creative" interpretations.
In fact the tweet is so bizzare that nobody even has to try too much, sensible theories appear out of thin air.
From a PR perspective that message was unprofessional and way too casual.
Who in their right mind would provide message THAT vague.
It's written in such a way as if it was DESIGNED to PROVOKE speculation.
Hexchild: Sure. But let's be clear here, what you just listed are some actual conclusions drawn from the original phrasing.
What I said in what you quoted was mere deduction, nowhere near consensus.
B1tF1ghter: [...]
To quote:
"
Earlier today, it was announced that the game Devotion is coming to GOG. After receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store.
"
[...]
Arsen7: Guys, I suspect that we may be underestimating the scale of China.
It's irrelevant. No country should stand above others.
Arsen7: If only 1% of the members of the Communist Party of China are gamers, and if out of these gamers only 1% felt offended enough to actually write a message to GOG, then that would still make over 9,000 messages.
I'm not even mentioning possible gamers that might not be members of the Party, but still feel bad.
I'm having some trouble deciding if you are being sarcastic or serious here.
But I will for a second roll with it:
the officially designated deliberately picked word "gamers" * doesn't even imply those bunch were GOG's customers at all.
For all we know that could have been literally anybody (IF we would be supposed to roll with official statement anyway), including but not limited to: trolls, angry tweeters crowd, a bunch of toxic "I don't have anything better to do", paid actors, competition, bot networks and even bored employees.
* What is that even supposed to mean?
Isn't it kind of profoundly obvious that each GOG's customer is already a gamer?
In which case IF the feedback would be coming from ACTUAL customers (non-new, non-lacking-purchases, not-newly-created GOG accounts) the word "community" or "userbase" would be far more appropriate, especially from PR standpoint.
Word "gamers" sticks out like a thorn in that statement.
It does SO MUCH that many people, myself included, draw special attention to it and try to find the actual sense of using it.
From my perspective it's a cover up to not directly say those people weren't even GOG's cusomers to begin with and GOG listened to some random angry bunch (possibly max 2 digits amount).
Arsen7: And how many of us were feeling angry enough to sign up to this boycott, which is about more than only that game?
Not even a 100. Makes you think, doesn't it?
1.You must be really exhausted or skipped your research
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/devotion There is even duplicate thread
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/devotion_1 the timing of which makes me wonder which one was the first one (the first linked contains too many comments and I don't have time to backtrack atm).
2.I am yet to see a boycott/petition/similar-goal that would accurately display real amount of concept-sympathetic people.
The numbers in this thread alone are in no way representative to the overall amount of people sympathetic to the cause.
Arsen7: Obviously, there is always the problem that people tend to be more vocal about things that they don't like than about things that they find good.
More like, people are too lazy and afraid to get out of their comfort zones to fight for the right cause unless it affects them personally.
In before I get downvoted again due to some people being unable to handle truth and/or free speech ;)
Tho I honestly don't care. This is nothing compared to what I'm currently going through in my IRL life ;)
edit: I forgot to paste literal half of the message :P
