Ah FFS I missed the popcorn ?

Not my thing but good on the guys that enjoy these releases, I think someone especially asked during NSFW week.
So.....what parallel universe are you from now ?

Oh you're allowed to, people have the right to argue against you though.
Unless the reasoning contains a lot of bigotry, GoG might not like that.
It was pretty much Good old games + CDPR Games as far as I remember.
But uh that was ages ago I guess some people really cling to the past :P

Men totally can be gay. It's just straight men don't like to watch men being gay. Because, you know, straight.

Personally, I'm actually fine with this kind of advertising of LGBTQ+games because it says upfront "There are two men here, they are going to bang each other". Unlike, for example, Dragon Age, that says it's going to be RPG with monsters, magic, political intrigue... and suddenly my male character is in bed with another male character because I was too polite in the dialog.

Thank you .

Yea, I guess.. though I still have this impression that yuri doesn't garner equal eek reactions from girls. At least they don't hop into forum discussions to condemn these releases. And while I can't ascertain their sexuality, I've seen (assumed straight) ladies endorse some yuri titles.. I don't really mind either, per se. If a game has a queer side kick or subplot, I don't think it needs to be advertised on the front page. I don't know about Dragon Age in particular, because I've not played it.

What I do mind a little bit is if it feels like it's there only because of politics & trends, kinda like quota hires. That is to say, if someone starts forcing (only because upper management & social media lynch mob insist) characters and topics that feel completely out of place for the world they're in and it's obvious what's going on, it'll leave a sour taste. It's almost like breaking the fourth wall to acknowledge contemporary political topic, which isn't what I generally look for in a work of fiction and fantasy.

I don't mind these topics at all where they feel appropriate; for example, I would have really liked to see an in-depth dive into contemporary Christian views (along with their historical developments) of homosexuality in Flowers, which takes place in "present day" in a Catholic missionary school. Unfortunately they pretty much completely brushed the topic away and just went with the old gay=sin view with zero exploration of alternative views. Massive wasted opportunity imo.

Now VNs have featured homosexual relationships for a long time before it became a hot topic in the sphere of western mainstream games, so it never felt like it was forced. If anything, it's so common that any store that wants to sell VNs for real must include such titles. If they didn't, they'd miss some very good titles and a huge audience, which would also mean less VN sales in general and thus less interest from publishers and thus less VNs in general and thus no serious VN fan paying attention to the store. I hope GOG finally realized this! I'm probably not reading these two titles myself, but I do applaud GOG for bringing them here and I sure hope that eventually this all clears the way for more publishers and more interesting titles.

Well, I would in fact be really interested how a released game you simply are not interested in could make you sad. If I would be sad everytime GOG releases a game I am completely uninterested in I would already suffer from a heavy depression.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_amazing_lgbtq_titles_from_heartcoredev_2b862/post41

Even though I still fail to see how it could be so problematic to ignore things you see that you dislike.

Witcher was a new game at the time wheter you like it or not
People using CDPR Games aa an argument is just looking for an excuse to make an exception

You're saying "I'm allowed to" elaborate further but you're not a moderator here. You don't decide that. Oh, and I don't mind people arguing against me, I truly don't. I like when people have opposite opinions. But as you can see there are zero negative comments here. Not a single one, they were all wiped, which makes me suspicious of where exactly is fine line for antagonizing or hate speech lies, and I'm not willing to find out.
Now, I know for a fact that just being anti-LGBT is not hate speech by definition, because LGBT is not an orientation but a political group of people. But I wouldn't trust that every single mod had their research done on the topic. Further more, just mentioning LGBT as a political group kinda violates CoC about political discussion. It's a catch 22 really, so nice bait and have a nice day.

Some negative posts were removed but they contained nothing like civilized arguments, just negative reaction on par with "screw this shit." There are still a few negative but civilized posts up.

Anyway, I'm kinda glad you choose not to share your views here. Not that I don't want people to express themselves, but it seems like you are confusing the tag's meaning for something else. Whether there exists an "LGBT political group" is completely separate from the usage of such a tag to label a game/VN that features characters in a homosexual relationship. It sounds like what you have in mind is something not related to the VN or its content at all, but something entirely off-topic.

I find it rather fun that our usual "anti porn" posters don't have anything to say to that matter. I guess they are only against (edit: immaginary) sex with women :P

Me? I am not interested in these games, but everyone who is ... have fund and enjoy! Don't let the haters get to you.

You're exactly right and that's one of my points. This confusion is exactly the reason they shouldn't even tag these games as LGBT, because the tag itself is off-topic and breeds off-topic discussion. They should tag with actual
contents instead like BL or GL. It's a little bit bold to assume that a homosexual guy would be automatically and undeniably interested in transsexual vn. Instead they're attracting politically agitated straight people while making sexual minorities an outcast of the group because they're not on equal footing.

I admit I'm really sad I missed all the Popcorn but oh well.
I'm personally ambigious about some LGBT activism myself and maybe just calling it BL like on Itch.io would be smarter but I'm gonna go ahead and assume that the "negative" posts were mostly veiled or not so veiled bigotry triggered by the Tag. It's really like Pavlov's dogs.
Anyways my point was that a lot of people seem to think that being spoken against or a private company enforcing their rules somehow inhibits their right to speak. But enough off topic.

Glad for the people that like these games that they are here.

Well that is a pretty specific way or seeing things but ok, I really don't mind one way or another since I don't really long back for those times.

Actually that's - twisted around - the argument of the counter party. The 'agitated straight' people don't feel as part of a group, when others form one, they are the ones who feel suppressed.
If they're right or not, that's a whole different thing and I really don't want to debate about that.
There is no group of equal footers. They're may be all the same, but there is no group. There is no "S" (straight) or "H" (hetero) group, there is LGBTQ however. These "others" form a group for whatever reason that insecure people think they must counter. It's mostly insecure people who get angry and aggressive, when they feel threatened and try to hide it. I say "live and let live". I don't need to be part of any group (neither H nor S) in order to know what I am.

I agree, the tags could have been chosen better to avoid that conflict.

the script doesn't work in FireMonkey

Well, thank you for sharing your view. As a matter of fact, I agree that it'd be better to go for more specific tags like BL/GL/yuri/yaoi/whatever instead of lumping it all together under one tag.

EDIT: Not really expecting them to react but I added a wish. https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_more_specific_tags_such_as_yuri_or_gl

That said, the presence of a more generic tag per se doesn't bother me. It still says something about the title, and maybe someone finds that useful. It may also be fit for a title that features multiple personalities across the spectrum. And it's not like all other tags or genres are horribly specific either. How about "adventure" and "indie" or "funny" and "2D"? Mmm.. I guess this is where it gets more political & inflammatory so I'd rather not go there.. but... if a tag attracts buyers (i.e. helps people discover the kind of things they like). I'd say that's a job well done by the store. I wouldn't know what kind of people that tag really attracts. And while I can see where you're coming from in the latter half of the sentence, I think the idea that a descriptive tag for a game can marginalize people in any meaningful is a huge a stretch.