How are we supposed to get first post if we do that?
Indeed, folks are lucky to be able to see the posts at all through the various stains on the screen from the internet's primary purpose.

Yes, but it's also the gog.com community. This used to be a hotbed of thoughtful, well-informed, civilized discussion. I guess "used to be" is the most significant part of that description.
That was more intensely illogical than anything I could have come up with. Sir, I salute you :-D

It did. I found quite a while ago that there wasn't much point in reading things thoroughly or anything like that because enough other people weren't.

Increasingly I see people who ought to know better just completely disregarding points being made. It's kind of depressing.

I am just so glad we don't have these half-finished products here...

Funny, I thought I saw games that were early.......err games in development being sold here. In fact there is a nice large banner for one on the homepage. Hard to miss actually.

While I appreciate your attempted dig at the In Development games, its a bit of a stretch in this case. SpinTires was released almost two years ago: June 2014.

So your saying this game is finished, nothing further happening on it, for the best part of two years, and no-one noticed or bothered? That seems even worse, why did the store not stop selling a damaged product?

So your saying that once a game gets released there can never be patches or updates?

The problems were apparently introduced in a patch released in December. Because they were date related, no one had a problem until quite recently.

Where? Where? I can't see it. Maybe it doesn't exist for me... ;)

No, patches and updates are ok once in a while. I didn't realise that it was from a patch, only going on what you posted. Personally if I was the publisher I would remove the product or fix it, and then sue the developer for damages. Mind you the developer has probably got a job design the next round of DRM.

Supposedly it wasn't intentional. We'll probably never know the full truth. Either way, both the dev and the pub say, not intentional and a fix is in the works.

It wasn't very good DRM though. there was a user-created patch available very quickly. Really, it was a perfect illustration of what is wrong with DRM. It was easily beat, and the people impacted the most were the paying customer.

DRM savin the day yet again!

Timebombs are sometimes insurance policies for the dev. I've heard before of a SQL programmer for a database that knew he was getting laid off soon, and suspected his company would bad mouth him. So he hid a time-bomb in the code. When he couldn't get hired within 2 months the time-bomb went off and destroyed the whole database. Had he gotten hired he'd have hinted at a specific line to comment out which would have prevented the data's destruction.

You know, things just happen when you treat people poorly.

Yikes! I don't even want to know what exactly this means.



Ah good, for a moment there it looked like you thought this is still the old good community it used to be.

There are a few, like the devs of Forced and Shovel knight, at great sacrifice and personal cost.
http://imgur.com/gallery/yacucU1
For Forced devs, they move in illegally in University Classroom and stay there 7 months before they are found out.
They rised 65K on kickstarter and still need to take a 200K bank loan. The rest of the struggles can be easily seen in the funny story picture

http://yachtclubgames.com/2014/08/sales-one-month/
Shovel Knight Devs got 300K when they need 1.44 M under normal condition because not only for salary, but health insurance rent, electricity, water, food/snacks, conventions, computer and other equipment, software licenses, lawyer fees, taxes, development kit expenses etc
One of the team take no pay and the rest have half pay.
They even plan to cram 2 years development time into one year, but end up 5 month without pay because after one year they cannot release a satisfactory build.