With me usually just tracking a few threads and rarely sparing a glance for the latest few topics otherwise, I just saw this now, when it was linked to... And I sat here reading all the posts, elbow on desk, head leaning on hand, just thinking... Well, they've really done it, haven't they?
Talking of GOG driving away the remnants of the "old guard", the former "GOG evangelists" who had been drawn here by their original principles and mission statement and took it as a rallying call, gathering under what appeared to be their banner to reform the industry since there finally seemed to be hope, some who were a part of it and actually made a dent who were actually fighting back and made it appear that they wanted the same things we did and those things mattered, and those of us who agreed mattered, far more than the weight thrown around by the big shots or market share or even absolute profits.
And since the "good news" many of those already left, most of the rest toned down their involvement, nearly all stopped being open supporters, some (*raises hand*) even became open detractors, only sticking around because there's no other place where something at least happened once on any significant scale, and where at least a few others may still remember that things could be different.
But from all that bunch, you can count on the fingers of one hand (and probably not even need all of them) those who truly put time and effort and skill into, if I may use the term, offering services for the community and in fact for all users. Services which GOG should have offered instead, mind you. And through MaGOG and these tracking threads for me you're definitely by far the most notable of them (sorry?), and that's even before mentioning your constant contribution to the community here on the forums.
And, well, what I started to say is that they finally managed to get rid of you too. One less worry for them, one less reminder that they stood for something and all that baggage that rather weighs them down at the moment on their way to wherever it is they want to go.
Sad... But hardly unexpected. In fact quite the contrary. Maybe you lasted too long, and wasted your time and skills and got stressed and possibly angry over something that stopped being worth it.
But, at the same time, maybe you didn't, and same goes for anyone else thinking this is the wrong direction. Like GhostwriterDoF said, it's a fight worth fighting, and we won't win it by giving up. Of course, we're not winning it otherwise either, but as I tend to keep saying, if you fight you'll probably lose, but if you don't you'll certainly lose, and that difference between probably and certainly is the reason why everyone has to fight.
But I'm rambling. Still quite shocked by this. Don't care to even reread this post now.
Anyway, good luck in whatever you'll choose to do next, and you will be sorely missed.
As for the blues who posted here, if there's any shred of honesty in what you said, there are plenty of things to do. Starting from getting back to those principles of course, but before then implementing MaGOG-like functions on GOG itself, maintaining those tracking threads or otherwise implementing means for people to quickly see updates/changes to games and all the pricing "matrix" and any changes to it as they happen, I'm sure you know what I mean. Otherwise, your words aren't even worth the... bits they were sent through.
I'll shut up now.
