EDIT: OK, seems like there was a coding error in there. My mistake.
Sorry I've not been on much. Been busy lately, and been playing lots of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 on my off time, which I wholeheartedly recommend. Hella fun game.
It's good to see a lot of people being thoughtful about the topic. That's always a good point. I've noticed a lot of people accusing me of seeing all criticism as "toxic," and I'm not sure I agree with that. The issue I often find is the sheer aggressive anger in a lot of it. There are certain things that require a forceful response, namely the Hitman nonsense, It's just that there are people (and yes, many have helpfully pointed out that it's a VERY vocal minority, and I'm well aware) who seem incapable of having a mature, thoughtful discussion of not only issues that may affect GoG, but indeed anything in general.
I'd go through a whole bunch of posts, but I think this really encapsulates a lot of what I've been seeing.
PS. About the forum community since some of the message are about that. I think the original one was really nice, I'm glad I was able to enjoy it while it lasted. Right now in the community there are still a lot of people like that but like in every community large enough with almost no moderator there are also a lot of people that don't belong to any community like racists, fascists, nazis, putin fans, homophobes and other violent people that are a poison for every good community. I will not give a definition of right or left politics here, since they are mostly extremists on both sides (right now they are mostly on alt-right wing (at least if I understand how you call extremists right wing politics)), I'm on the center left side but I know most people on center right side are decent people that just think market economy must have less interference from the state (I think there must be a welfare state at least for health and other basics thing even at the cost of rising taxes), they are not against gay or pro putin. But most of all, most center-right and center-left wing people love freedom and democracy and here I see far too many people that love dictator like putin.
I'm glad you made the point about not putting a "political spectrum" label to the current group of crazies that hijack threads (including this one, seems like), and you're ABSOLUTELY right. Center-right and center-left people both have a love of their countries that shouldn't be discarded because they view markets differently, and we shouldn't be lumping them with the most insane elements available.
Unfortunately, the insanely hateful seem to have a passion that good folk lack. Then again, I've been busy living life and playing Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, so maybe that says something about me as well.
I'm still not 100% sure that I will continue to like gog since cyberpunk got drm dlc and gwent is still here on gog. But right now I don't really see any reason to boycot gog.
Honestly, I think it's a matter of degrees when it comes to transgressions. Considering the Cyberpunk galaxy goodies are very superficial (who the hell wants to wear a Galaxy-themed T-shirt anyway), and Gwent is a free-to-play game (and something that hasn't done well, if its apparent burial is one thing), it doesn't bring the sort of rage that's to the level of the Hitman release. Not that they shouldn't be looked at askew (they clearly should), but considering all the content that comes here with no DRM, including Cyberpunk itself, I'm willing to tolerate a few mistakes here and there. After all, I've had over 500 happy purchases here, no reason I should judge by an ill-conceived free-to-play and some tacky AF cosmetics.
And that, I feel, is my chief issue. Discussion, even critical discussion, can be had without making absolutely everything a hill to die on, and even on those hills, it costs
nothing to be polite.
