Posted March 07, 2017
Djaron: Now that we know we have (new) rules, that they apply retroactively and that failure to reply or comply to moderation's warning will ends up with our user account removed (games licences/ownership included) i have a few questions:
Breja: Yeah, that is not at all what happens. No one is taking away anyones games. It's been stated multiple times that forum ban is not taking away your account, library or ability to buy/download/manage games. You can go back to Defcon 5. Remember that the ability to post on the website is a privilege and not a right. If a user is found ignoring or repeatedly violating the rules stated above and/or the website's Terms of Use, depending upon severity, he/she will lose an adequate amount of reputation points, and:
- be given a warning from a moderator or GOG.com employee, or
- be temporary banned from the GOG.com forums and/or website for a “cooldown period”, or
- be permanently banned from the GOG.com forums and/or website.
Looks like they have left it open-ended. Wouldn't banned from the website mean no access to a member's account, no access to download Galaxy (beta) or any other official downloader for their games? In a sense, that's perfectly reasonable. If GOG were to shutdown, then it would be same circumstance of no further access. Perhaps GOG would give the member a notice to download their games within a period of time, a month or year or some such, and then cut access. (Maybe have one more final review at that time.) Anyway, it's their place and everything downloaded is usable without website access, so it wouldn't seem unreasonable to me.- be given a warning from a moderator or GOG.com employee, or
- be temporary banned from the GOG.com forums and/or website for a “cooldown period”, or
- be permanently banned from the GOG.com forums and/or website.
Post edited March 08, 2017 by thomq