aluinie: I have been trying to stay off this but this thread goes on and on.

I joined this site when it was just starting up for the games but found it had a great community of passionate gamers who where here just for the games. Move forward 10 years and as gog grew the forum has become become more toxic and now it is not about the games anymore but about politics.

With what is going on there is no winners here we all lose gog loses either through websites shunning them and loss of sales as customers suddenly dont want to buy here. We lose as less sales means less publishers will want to sell their games here so drm free games do suffer.Also i read elsewhere other epeople said theyi will boucott gog and pirate the game instead. Great idea that just escalates the damage as publishers get less money from sales and guess what put less games out drm free. So in the end these people only hurt themselfs in the long term.

As for people who say i will only buy from steam . Steam has done a lot of anti consumer items over the years and the ony reason we have things like the refund policy is that valve where backed into a corner due to preasure from countries .
I think gog should not have apolagised but then we dont know all the facts and there could be a lot of reasons we doont know about that caused them to apolagise.

So how do we stop this from happening again we can close the forums, twitter account and they can sell safe games like Barbie fashion show or something like that. That is the only way to not piss off someone but in this day and age no matter what you say or do you will annoy someone which just shows how things have turned for the worse.

All this political bull is destroying our industry, our fun and all this has been done by a few extremists who want to turn the masses o each other and for me it is a sad affair. We should be here for the games not fighing each other over politics.

AgentBJ09: The only way this is going to end is if:

#1 - GOG fires the staff member who made the libelous apology on Twitter which lumped all of GamerGate together as an abusive movement, and the staff member, should it be a different one, who posted on Reddit and ResetERA in an attempt to grovel to them.

Dalthnock: No. No firings. Enough of that bullshit.

People need money to survive, and for that, they need a job. Noone should be fired for their personal opinions, however, personal opinions SHOULD & MUST be reined in.

That's something the vast majority of people seems to have forgotten. The workplace is NOT where you express yourself.

Everything's upside down & incompetents have job security for as long as they hold the "right" opinions, while competent people are being fired for wrongthink.

Enough.

Yeshu: True, firing the guy would be to much. We have enough of that kind of BS in the world.

richlind33: Actually, it's a bit larger than that...

Once upon a time, long ago and far, far away, the culture war came into being in the American polity, and in a short span of time it became it's defining characteristic. Why did this happen? Because monarchy was dying and being replaced with quasi-representative forms of governance, allowing for outcomes that were considerably more uncertain -- which was troubling to those of privileged status. So they devised a means by which electoral politics would outwardly appear to be "representative", while being extremely consistent with respect to financial and foreign policy.

How did it work? Three ways, primarily.

1) Political campaigns are horse races that are chiefly won by successful fundraising and vote counting.

2) Elite institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission train those deemed most suitable in the nuances of "public service".

3) The public is bamboozled with demagoguery re issues like abortion, race, gender, communism, drugs, etc.

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Fast forward to today, and we see almost everything becoming increasingly politicized, and by consequence, polarized. So Gamer Gaters = alt. right, and SJW's = "progressive" Democrats. And yes, it's very, very serious to those who buy into this "real life" drama; but so, too, for those of us who don't, as we are all impacted by this massive and hugely successful psyop.

BeatriceElysia: Gog lost a partner over a disputable joke- it's more a valid reason to remove a tweet.

ChrisGamer300: Really, do you know who withdrawn from the store ?

Hmm that does indeed explain things.

BeatriceElysia: It was actually a game curator, not publisher or developer.

BeatriceElysia: It was actually a game curator, not publisher or developer.

tremere110: GoG needs less game curators, not more :p

PoppyAppletree: That way lies shovelware.

BeatriceElysia: It was actually a game curator, not publisher or developer.

Dalthnock: No. No firings. Enough of that bullshit.

People need money to survive, and for that, they need a job. Noone should be fired for their personal opinions, however, personal opinions SHOULD & MUST be reined in.

That's something the vast majority of people seems to have forgotten. The workplace is NOT where you express yourself.

Everything's upside down & incompetents have job security for as long as they hold the "right" opinions, while competent people are being fired for wrongthink.

Enough.