Posted January 22, 2021
Thanks gog and cdpr for in the end allowing cyberpunk'77 on w7. I think at this stage that companies developing windows software that is not designed to run on w7 are not just passive complicit bystanders, but active willing participants in the ongoing push by microsoft executives to wall off its users and make them its product.
To lend some substance to my thanks back in early December I pre-ordered cyberpunk, which is now sitting in my library awaiting install and possibly a new video card and a 2nd ssd - assuming of course that no microsoft sleazy bundled/stealth installs come lurking with the dx12, and this past weekend I "pre-ordered" the new Larian (vulkan for the win).
But wtf gog, any business that I transact with you is absolutely no business of google's, so why in the world would you force your customers to allow google scripts when buying from you? It gives a rotten smell to the simple act of transferring funds, and every purchase comes packaged now with a growing feeling of being unclean, accompanied by a growing reluctance to repeat the process in the future. I almost want to go have a shower thinking about it.
There was a time when I stopped buying games completely, back when software installation was becoming particularly dirty and intrusive (drm) and Valve decided they were going to ram a client down everyone's throat with HL2. Then gog came along. I was hesitant at first but for the last 12 years or so I've been buying games again, essentially under an "if it isn't on gog it doesn't exist" policy. I guess I had become too comfortable with this situation, somehow thinking it might go on forever, or at least until I died or wound up on the street or some such. But now in these days of disinfo I see it might after all have been nought but a pipe dream, what with all the lowest common denominator mobile/console based design,
DLC (what a detestable management/marketing term that is), updates that without warning restrict or remove, in-product advertising and sales, proprietary storefronts with their clients and other forms of drm, and perhaps above all the seemingly ubiquitous working assumption among people associated with producing or selling software/hardware that always online and/or always collecting data by default and with no simple straightforward readiily visible means of opting out completely is somehow ok (and to each and every person out there who is associated with producing or selling hardware/software who does assume that always online and/or always collecting data with no simple straightforward readily visible means of opting out completely is ok, I'd like to send out an especially big and hearty GFY!).
:)
dp
To lend some substance to my thanks back in early December I pre-ordered cyberpunk, which is now sitting in my library awaiting install and possibly a new video card and a 2nd ssd - assuming of course that no microsoft sleazy bundled/stealth installs come lurking with the dx12, and this past weekend I "pre-ordered" the new Larian (vulkan for the win).
But wtf gog, any business that I transact with you is absolutely no business of google's, so why in the world would you force your customers to allow google scripts when buying from you? It gives a rotten smell to the simple act of transferring funds, and every purchase comes packaged now with a growing feeling of being unclean, accompanied by a growing reluctance to repeat the process in the future. I almost want to go have a shower thinking about it.
There was a time when I stopped buying games completely, back when software installation was becoming particularly dirty and intrusive (drm) and Valve decided they were going to ram a client down everyone's throat with HL2. Then gog came along. I was hesitant at first but for the last 12 years or so I've been buying games again, essentially under an "if it isn't on gog it doesn't exist" policy. I guess I had become too comfortable with this situation, somehow thinking it might go on forever, or at least until I died or wound up on the street or some such. But now in these days of disinfo I see it might after all have been nought but a pipe dream, what with all the lowest common denominator mobile/console based design,
DLC (what a detestable management/marketing term that is), updates that without warning restrict or remove, in-product advertising and sales, proprietary storefronts with their clients and other forms of drm, and perhaps above all the seemingly ubiquitous working assumption among people associated with producing or selling software/hardware that always online and/or always collecting data by default and with no simple straightforward readiily visible means of opting out completely is somehow ok (and to each and every person out there who is associated with producing or selling hardware/software who does assume that always online and/or always collecting data with no simple straightforward readily visible means of opting out completely is ok, I'd like to send out an especially big and hearty GFY!).
:)
dp
