If I may be a bit blunt here:

Most of them won't be come much of anything, if we're being honest. And I think a little thing called schooling(or books) will teach them more about science(or politics) than this game will.

But eh, to each their own.....I still think they could've achieved the same thing with a generic name/etc, and that this was just a cash grab(and the "donations/help find a cure" thing and "teach people stuff" thing were mainly to sell units)....but let people play what they want. I just won't be buying it myself.

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Because obviously that sort of title wouldn't get them as much news and social media buz....I mean because they TOTALLY had no other good names to pick from. ;)

So is all media about the Cold War created during the Cold War irrelevant now? Books by John le Carre, tv shows like the Sandbaggers? Is All the President's Men no longer worth watching? That's obviously absurd.

And what about media dealing with past events? That logic would make them irrelevant by definition. Again, patently ridiculous.

Pretty much all media, regardless of what events they deal with, is in some way a result and reflection of current zeitgeist. Only its quality decides its relevance and staying power. And besides, not everything has to have staying power. There's no crime in creating disposable entertainment as long as it's fun.

Now, none of that is to say whether this particular game is worth a damn, but that's a whole different question.

Better be careful, they normally come and ban you for pointing out the obvious. and they sure are afraid of being called out for their own incompetence. especially their curation side which is most likely run by the most "woke" people in Poland.

That is fundamentally short-sighted. People develop their personal interests and careers, with trivial things as a starting point. Your doctors, city managers, actors, mechanics, animators, and so on all were once children who encountered something to make them say "This is cool!"

Education must be readily be available, but it shouldn't be mistaken for motivation.

Agreed, but most of those things just gave them that "initial spark" as it were....they then likely(for the most part) went on to learn more via better sources like books/studies/schooling/etc.

Agreed, and I didn't mean to.....sorry for not being clear earlier.

This is true. Well said.

Thanks for the warning. No need to worry, though!

They have been releasing artsy crap games thinking that it'll Bring in the big bucks, while they mostly flop. The games they refused at first sold better and were in the top 10 but they don't seem to get the hint. Right now GOG is most likely going down the drain their sales have been down for a long time and they now showed how desperate they are for money while still ignoring the wishlist and requested games they refused. At least with their woke act, they can go Broke and learn the hard way.

I only buy games that are worth buying, seeing as they refused certain games I want i barely buy any games from them so they can bankrupt for all I care. They're sure as hell looking less like a viable gaming storefront and more like an art gallery with games that barely have any gameplay.

At least their fascistic nature of the forums or even their curation team they sure as hell are gonna alienate themselves from most gamers.

Okay, here's the thing. I was born pretty much as the cold war was dying. After Reunification and just a few short months before the USSR officially fizzled out. So yeah, maybe the wrong person to ask that question.

By the time I had something resembling situational awareness, the USSR was dead and buried and I was too busy playing countless shareware games to care what a Russia was.

I think a number of people aren't quite understanding why some take issue with this game.

It isn't that it's a pandemic game. Those already exist: Pandemic, Outbreak, etc.

It's that -- in a time of global crisis where many are afraid for their lives and those of their loved ones -- a game uses COVID-19 solely to make money...

... and...

... to try and deflect criticism they knew they'd encounter, they created a miniscule donation scheme (20% for 2 months).

The criticism is about opportunism -- a game manufacturing sales from a global crisis and grief.

This......at least the Jim Jones colony simulator(there is one on GOG atm) was "better" in that it didn't use the names of the people and places and event it references, and did it long after the event happened.....but this game: uses the name of the pandemic(likely to garner PR buzz, good and bad), likely tries to appeal to people's emotions and come off better by the donation thing, etc all while the event is still ongoing & people still dying from the disease.

And yet you have some who act as if all or most who take issue with this are doing so for bad reasons or are wrong for doing so......not seemingly even stopping to bother thinking "Hmm, maybe some of them have legitimate grievances with this product and aren't just getting offended over nothing?"

You think so, too? I mean, of course i mustn't be the only one to be worried, over the new lenient refund system and the quite steep discount of games, especially the newly released ones!

I cannot agree more. Mistakes earn you double the experience, compared against successes. But unlike videogames, in real life you cannot save and load game...

I really hope GOG wakes up, instead of woke down.

The entire gaming industry has been manufacturing sales from this crisis from the very start. Pretty much every digital store had some "pandemic sale/giveaway/event". One could just as well argue that this game at least is upfront about what it's about instead of pretending that PR/marketing stunt is all about the stores helping the people take their minds off things out of the kindness of their hearts, and the 20% is more than any charity saw from those sales.

I don't mean too sound too much like this game's sworn defender, or to condemn all those aformentioned sales. I just think that everyone should take a chill pill. The correct answer to seeing something as opportunistic profiteering is to simply not buy the damn thing, all this outraged, "remove the game" torches and pitchforks rhetoric is is way too much, and frankly I think it's more about people liking feeling rightous about a non-issue taking a dramatic stance on which demands nothing from them.

Coughvid-19 is over (according to the MSM anyway) so this just missed the "bad taste" window lol.

Real people are dying! Families! Loved ones of all ages! Could be yours next! This is an interesting premise of a game but this is marketed in VERY poor taste! How can anyone be this heartless? No one is truly safe from the real COVID19, and it could infect customers or anyone! To make a game like this during a time when the planet of our human species should be coming together is almost blasphemous and sick. You could have waited until it was over! Come on, really? Have you even watched the news lately? Or seen REAL LIFE devastation? Please remove this game temporarily, especially now, until our world and all our countries of awesome people are being saved by a vaccine that really works! You guys have all gone over the line on this one! I mean if developers start getting sick or don't make it, then what?