B1tF1ghter: ... Well I just said that because here on GOG forums a bunch of toxic people seemed to start a personal vendetta against me just because I critised GOG a bunch of times for legitimate reasons. I got downvoted to oblivion in the past :P Just saying ;)
GilesHabibula: I am not familiar with those posts you speak of, but I can offer one piece of advice to anyone:
Be careful when you criticize GOG. A lot of the stuff that GOG gets blamed for are actually decisions that are beyond their control. For instance, GOG gets blamed a lot for decisions that the publishers make, not GOG.
Not saying that's what you did, because I don't know. Just pointing out that I see this a lot.
GOG certainly isn't perfect, but I do believe that they try hard.
Well one great example is what I link below.
I basically critised GOG for not pursuing developers ENOUGH (because it was brought SO MANY TIMES to gog attention about this particular developers) to release their ports here (yet another game got released without linux port and so probably yet another game that will NEVER have linux port here as is with most such cases here. In such situations GOG generally claims to be working on it and then few years pass and nothing changes, like with metro games for example. Perhaps my tone could be a little softer but I am getting sick of this kind of behaviour and so I raised my concerns (totally really valid concerns)).
So then ONE GUY proceeded to jump on me PERSONALLY (he attacked me PERSONALLY) and proceeded to say how "they" (I have read that ENTIRE thread and HE was the ONLY one that posted about not liking my post) don't want to listen to my "random offending name for my texts". I proceeded to explain to him that he is wrong. Then he said something in the lines of "shorten this as I'm not going to read it" so I then ignored him (I'm not gonna feed a troll).
Meanwhile I was responding to some other people posts in that thread (generally not related to my post critisising GOG) and my other posts got magically downvoted to oblivion (same goes for my original post). I guess he used either alt accounts or his "network of toxic buddies" to gang downvote me to oblivion :P
That thread in general was weird. People in there giving helpful advaice or voicing other valid concerns got downvoted as well and they were like "wtf why am I getting downvoted".
The guy that jumped on me had high reputation which only shows how GOG reputation system is flawed and it seems like nobody is actually reviewing those massively downvoted posts (to check if they are treated how they should or if people are abusing the thing).
The thread in question is
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_xcom_2_a41bb/
Sadly this is not the only occurence where such topics are toxified by some trolls. I have seen it a bunch of times especially on announcement topics.
GilesHabibula: Best wishes.
Thanks, you too ;)