This will have more than one meaning, as is intended: I like "good old games" more than I like GOG ;).

Yes, I actually like GOG, despite all their faults and terrible decisions lately, they still offer a good service, it feels great to actually talk with a human when you contact support amd they always treat me well and kind.
I also love this community, the users, I know great people here and I happy to come to this place.

This. For me, its more about having the drm-free option, but same sentiment otherwise.

I never bought a single game on Steam or Epic. The dishonesty with the way most stores operate just leave a bad taste in my mouth. I categorically refuse to support it with my money. I know it makes no difference in the grand scheme of thing, but I don't care. I will not take part in their Scam.

They put cancer pictures in cigarette packs here. They should put clear "You don't own it, you may lose access to it in the future" disclaimer on all the main stores.

I've not had this problem but a few times, and even then, it's easily solved by going into the game directory and making another copy of the launch icon to the desktop. I'm not sure if that's true. I've been getting a LOT of offline installer updates lately. Terraria seems to update every ten minutes, for example, and No Man's Sky's offline installers are updated pretty quickly after patches hit Galaxy.

Only games I've got that aren't playing nice for me are Pure Pinball 2 and Tomb Raider 2, owing to their not being fixed up for Windows 10/11 yet (Anyone on staff wanna work on those?), but that's the case with either offline installers or Galaxy. Aside from the movies (a lost cause if ever there was one), I'm not sure what you mean. Galaxy hasn't pushed any games to me outside of it. Probably because I don't have any other accounts to connect to. Let me guess, you're pro-Putin? I'd say plenty. Tons of great games, all of them DRM-Free, and the quality of their sales is getting better all the time.

One gripe, though - If you don't have your bbcode perfect, it'll just hang when you try to post a message and won't tell you why.

I like gog, never had problems with the staff and their games.

At first I was concerned with the DRM aspect, but someone here cleared it up for me.

They're still my first choice for buying games. Sure they have done some things I don't like, but no company is prefect or make everyone happy. I can download offline installers for the over 1000 games I have on GOG. None has ever asked for online required for me to play.

Well, at least I don't have a sour relation with GOG. They don't disappoint me a lot so far.

GOG is fine.

Sorry for interruption... Donald Norman's "Design of everyday things" discusses importance of feedback. And seeing how "outdated" these boards are for years is somewhat... sad, I guess?

It is impossible to understand why particular forum message is not posted - too many symbols? If yes, then what's the limit, why there is no warning?
Wrong codes or links? Why not highlight them?
You somehow summoned an intrinsically written demon, who turned out to be a lemon?

So many questions, not enough answers. :)

If GOG didn't exist, my gaming days likely would have been over a few years ago or I might have gotten stuck in some MMO which often gets addictive for me. Which is why I had to give them up. Now I can play my games at my leisure and the ability to keep an offline backup is very reassuring.

Do I like every decision they make? No. I'll certainly express my opinion when that happens and there is almost always a thread created by someone during those times.

So, to the question "Does anyone actually LIKE GoG?" Yes. We exist.
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gets my love, because no other platform comes close enough.

Let's put it this way :

The outrage of the trumputin goons in front of GOG's support of Ukraine (and the women's rights day promo) achieved what I still considered impossible a few days ago. I finally installed the galaxy client.

GOG's back on my shops list I guess.

GOG is just a store to me. If I didn't like them, I'd take my money and shop elsewhere. For similar reason, I treat the forums here the same way as talking to other random customers in a shop. If I'm posting here at all, it's entirely because I'm either game shopping, checking for release announcements, or downloading a game. I would otherwise rather be playing my games than talking about buying them. (Right now I'm downloading due to itch, and it's latest massive bundle.)

What I really don't get though is people go into a shop they profess to hate then waste energy letting everyone know how much they hate the shop when they probably wouldn't do this in real life. I mean, why not just find a shop they do like, buy their games and go play them. Do something that's actually fun.


Just a side note and unrelated comment. I live in California, and Australia and sent us wildfire assistance. Australia only gets love and thanks from me, except for those giant dinner plate spiders that you have. I have a very severe phobia of spiders. We mostly get black widows around here, which are small but are just horrible things, so I wouldn't want to ever encounter one of those dinner-plate sized ones.

Maybe because they used to really like it but what they liked was taken away and turned on its head, and there isn't any other for them to like in a similar manner.
Some regulars of independent businesses who massively change their way of operating to expand may well do the same in "real life".

GOG has managed to pull some very stupid shit throughout the years. And their management decisions are "weird" to put it lightly (why is UnReal World still rejected, GOG?).

Still... one thing which not many people seem to acknowledge concerning GOG is the fact that this store - ever since it emerged - managed to prolong the lifespan of many computers (which would otherwise be completely obsolete and fit only for recycling) and turn them into cool gaming machines.

If not for GOG how the hell would I manage to play so many good games (without any client attached) on my offline Intel 1.33GHz Atom laptop with only 2GB RAM?

Despite all your blunders and dumb decisions...Thank you, GOG!