By that logic, all games featuring WWII would be outdated and irrelevant, because it's in the past and "we've all moved on with our lives".

I'm sure that if this game is a decent pandemic management simulation, that it could be fun to re-live the near-armageddon that resulted in assholes the world over hoarding toilet paper.

Naturally I have serious doubts that this will be a decent game in any way shape or form, as it appears to be a quick-and-dirty attempt to quickly profit from this pandemic before it's all over and shelved. That doesn't mean the pandemic itself will be irrelevant, nor that games based on it could be good and/or relevant years from now.

And the problem with this is... what exactly?

There are tons of people affected by COVID-19, not just the disease directly but loss of income, job or even business because of it. This occurs whenever there's a crisis of some sort; however, just as with other crises (such as a stock market crash), while there will naturally be losers, there will be those who use the situation to their advantage.

Yes, it's kind of a cheap and dirty tactic to release something with this name, at this time, with the donation thing - it's obviously meant to appeal to people's emotions to increase sales.

However, no one is forcing anyone to buy it.

It's just a sales tactic. Not really that different from sticking a hot chick with open cleavage on the cover for the sex appeal. Also not that different from McDonald's donating $1 per burger to certain charities at certain times.


So by this logic, the GTA games shouldn't be sold any more since they promote violence, and people are getting killed every day right?

BTW the above is on the off-chance you were actually being serious and not sarcastic. It's difficult to tell sometimes, especially these days... ;)

I really hope GOG stays out of the George Floyd/BLM stuff.

This is just disgusting, and that GOG, a platform famous for "curation" can allow this on their store is unbelievable.

All fair points

The thing is, those games don't focus on certain people or events from our world(that I know of)......if there were a GTA: george floyd edition right now, for example, i'm sure many would be up in arms over it.

I think the developer is trending towards specializing in simulation games, as they have RealPolitiks and other simulators in their roster. Odds are that this game will end up as a prototype for simulating pandemics in future iterations of the RealPolitiks series.

Anyhow, I don't begrudge them using sales tactics. COVID is likely to stick around for a couple years, and there will be plenty of awful things to go around that aren't viruses. Namely: Job losses, shuttered businesses, expensive goods, climate change, and so on. People should be given the opportunity to make money, because that may determine the difference between living in squalor or doing alright.

The refund thing is nice but it will get abused in the long run. Bad people always ruin it for the good. Their low prices are their own fault cause they fall short in the competitive edge seeing as they do more rejecting than just bringing more games here.

They already showed they care little about their customer seeing as the forum users and admins are more fighting each other when it comes to differences of opinion. they sure are trigger happy when it comes to banning people with a different opinion than their own.

This whole "Woke" crowd they are pandering too might look nice but they sure don't buy games or even consume their own "woke" garbage. There is factually an army of examples media going broke because of their "woke" mentality instead of creating good content or even selling good content. here are some examples of Woke entertainment going down the drain, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Comic books in general, a lot of gaming company's are bleeding money cause they decided to pander instead of creating neutral content good content that people can relate to.

The worse of it all is the distortion of history and the facts behind them to make them more inclusive.
Use Bitchute and type search the user American krogan and watch his compilation of Battlefield V, Assassins creed, and Wokenstein.


I'll leave it at this, I'll probably be banned soon. cause you sure can't tell an honest opinion around here.

The NWO doesn't care about your fear. All of this is fabricated, and you'll gladly sacrifice your freedom for an illusion of safety, mongrel.

I agree. But hopefully, you won't be banned, unless you directly commit an offense (although i might be mistaken, since one of my bans ages ago, wasn't about profanity or "preaching"). Woke games are what is actually "niche".

Got a warning this morning on this exact thread under the guise of "inflammatory post". I guess making fun of Star Wars, but inserting "trigger" words in place of character names is a no-no. Then attempting to defend the posters who aren't crying for GoG to remove it, while not attacking anyone specifically is also a no-no ....

I'll probably get a ban for wanting actual details on why the initial warning, and wanting a clearer defined Code of Conduct that isn't so ambiguous or open ended. At least create a "naughty word" list or implement something like Steam that censors words with hearts.

Guess it's time to ask to speak to their manager!

With what I hear about the checks to get one and the wait times, I honestly don't think that will be a problem(or at least to the degree you seem to think it will)....as it's simply too long a wait for some to make it worthwhile, etc.
As I told you before.....their "house" their rules.....they expect at least a small bit of decorum when people post(I mean the basic decency rules, and not the other rules which I agree are a bit heavy handed).

If I may be open and honest with you: The way you post sometimes is akin to going to a fancy restaurant(5 star), tearing off your clothes, painting yourself with bits of people's food, and then complaining "Why are you throwing me out?!? This in unfair" when they toss you out.

You possibly might not see a use or need for such niceties, but they are one of the requirements to post here(like acting respectable in certain establishments IRL).

OMG - that wasn't the one aimed at me, was it?

I thought it was very funny!

Sorry about that, Nerfherder :P

Who you calling scruffy looking?

No, it wasn't that one; yet ... (no clue who'd I'd offend by calling them Salacious B. Crumb). Was in reference to the original one, where I was lambasting Disney Star Wars and mixing it in with some humour from Robot Chicken. Guess it wasn't PC enough. Sure I also mentioned creating a Death Star like device (which, oddly there have been many version in Legends) as a way to keep the moral busybodies from being outraged over a game or to at least pry their keyboards away.

It's the whole Satanic Panic from the 80's over Heavy Metal and Dungeon's & Dragons again .... that or the mod really, really, really loves episodes 7-9 and doesn't like someone tarnishing those movies.

Control, control ... you must learn control ....

Yeah it seems moderation is pretty arbitrary on GOG. While most mods are pretty lenient with respect to "naughty words" and such (there's a fair bit of stuff that could, technically, be breaching the most basic conduct rules), they tend to instead ban things that are more anti-woke oriented - I suspect based on their own biases or something.

I won't list any specifics (or even generalities, apart from the above) in the interest of not getting banned due to complaining about moderation - except to say that it's not unusual to have a seemingly mild post banned even when it's swimming in sea of shit.

While I understand that some things are context-dependent and therefore it makes sense that some rules are open to interpretation (which naturally means that the particular mod's biases will be factor), IMO the rules overall could do with a bit of clarification. Also might be good to notify people when they change significantly - apparently there's some kind of "no politics" rule that's been around for years now, but I only found out about this the other day due to other people discussing it (and I still don't know exactly what it means or what it limits, or what the purpose of it is in the first place - I suspect to enable mods to pre-emptively strike down conversations revolving around current US politics, since that often tends to devolve into insane toxic territory rather quickly (personally I find this hilarious, but these days people get upset at everything it seems).

That said, GOG can moderate the forums however they wish of course - it's their forums, their rules, etc. Just saying that a tad more clarity would possibly reduce confusion and potentially outright stop those posts from being made in the first place (if I were a cynical person, I would suggest that this is the reason the rules are not clarified - since the mods need to have something to do. Otherwise they'd be like police officers in a town with zero crime. ;)).