JimmyDeSouza: Also I don't know why it says I only just registered. I have had an account for a number of years.

Trooper1270: Maybe you signed in by mistake with one of your many alt accounts ?. It's easily done, as it happens to many members here fairly frequently...

JimmyDeSouza: As far as I am aware I only made the one, but hell if I know.

That being said, even if it was an alt it still shouldn't say today/this month. It gave me a password reminder for an existing email address and the last time I went on this website was a number of years ago.

JimmyDeSouzasGOG: Oh no, it actually turns out I did have more than 1.

JimmyDeSouzasGOG: Oh no, it actually turns out I did have more than 1. Bad memory and all.

CMOT70: I prefer not to get emotionally involved with shops and companies. I neither like or hate them, I just use them when it suits me and I use all of them whichever gives the best deal or service at any given time.

These days people treat corporations like they're entering into a marriage contract. Which just leads to hurt feelings when your true love ends up betraying you for money. Or if you've gone so far down the rabbit hole that you've become a "fanboy" then you need to start digging up goal posts and pretending it's what you wanted all along.

RawSteelUT: We need to just accept that money makes the world go round and move on with it.

CMOT70: I prefer not to get emotionally involved with shops and companies. I neither like or hate them, I just use them when it suits me and I use all of them whichever gives the best deal or service at any given time.

These days people treat corporations like they're entering into a marriage contract. Which just leads to hurt feelings when your true love ends up betraying you for money. Or if you've gone so far down the rabbit hole that you've become a "fanboy" then you need to start digging up goal posts and pretending it's what you wanted all along.

You should treat all companies like you treat hookers. Use them when they do what you want at the right price and then just use another when it offers something better. Never, ever, fall in love with them or enter into a long term relationship. They don't love you, they just want your money- there's nothing wrong with that, we all want money. If you treat all these companies like lowly cheap hookers, you will soon find them singing and dancing for you, and offering things you never even thought possible.

CMOT70: I prefer not to get emotionally involved with shops and companies. I neither like or hate them, I just use them when it suits me and I use all of them whichever gives the best deal or service at any given time.

These days people treat corporations like they're entering into a marriage contract. Which just leads to hurt feelings when your true love ends up betraying you for money. Or if you've gone so far down the rabbit hole that you've become a "fanboy" then you need to start digging up goal posts and pretending it's what you wanted all along.

You should treat all companies like you treat hookers. Use them when they do what you want at the right price and then just use another when it offers something better. Never, ever, fall in love with them or enter into a long term relationship. They don't love you, they just want your money- there's nothing wrong with that, we all want money. If you treat all these companies like lowly cheap hookers, you will soon find them singing and dancing for you, and offering things you never even thought possible.

rojimboo: I'm starting to like GOG more and more. Their recent sympathetic and brave stance against the horrific Ukraine invasion by Russia, at their own expense, really helped that feeling.

I just have to stop comparing it to Steam for Linux gaming. I complain, but it's not too bad actually, I got everything working. Still, there's definitely room for improvement.

I can't say much about the community, I've only been posting for a year or two, despite me making an account many years ago, so I'm not that familiar with all the members. Some seem sensible and nice, others are toxic hot garbage. So pretty much the same as anywhere else online.

One thing that has never happened to me anywhere else, is that a user was talking crap about me behind my back to other members of the community, telling them to stop talking to me completely. Despite sometimes severe disagreements with people, I have *never* experienced such behaviour as I did here on GOG forums, so there's that.

I do have this feeling that there seem to be more Linux gamers, especially with the older crowd, than you usually see on a video game shop platform. I mean, relatively speaking as a proportion of the user base. At least, judging by the number of tools and guides for Linux GOG gaming, which is great to me.

At the end of the day the community and forums have almost nothing to do with GOG - they have no control about the behaviour of some members. So it shouldn't influence any decisions to buy from here, and so it doesn't for me.