kaboro: Oh please kind sir, save me out of my echo chamber.
Please provide links to the "tonns of people bad mouthing GOG for the "bad taste".
firstpastthepost: I'm not interested in going and looking up a bunch of stuff to prove a point that is self evident based on what we're discussing. (If there was no blow back, GoG wouldn't have apologised to begin with). All you have to do is look at any gaming news site for an article about GoG and you'll see it.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/17/18100180/thronebreaker-the-witcher-tales-pc-gog-com-steam-cd-projekt-red-sales There's an article with 40 odd comments and a good chunk of them are people saying they won't shop at GoG anymore because of this. I'm not going to bother digging up more, most of the ones I've seen go about the same way. That's just the first one I saw linked to GoG on Polygon.
Ok, i actually googled "cdpr transphobia" as instructed by one of the people posting in the link you provided, and surprisingly i got into a media echo chamber of political correctness gestapo.
Before, i used to think that we should lay this issue to rest, but now i think we should make links available to everyone, so they see whats going on.
All this drama over a harmless joke?
The gaming media playing an active role in turning some witty post into a political conflict?
To me this looks like a targeted attack against GOG, but also it helps bring to light the workings of a conspiracy-like organization.
Luckily this could turn out to be in the advantage of GOG, because according to statistics (yes i know statistics are not a thing to go by but still), there are 80% of people who think political correctness has gone too far and are bothered by it.
So in the end GOG will come out on top.
You say some people say they wont buy on GOG because of their joke....well...there are people who say they wont buy on GOG because GOG didnt take a stance against the political correctness gestapo.
While GOG is in a bit of a dillema right now, as they are in the business of selling games, not in the business of political correctness, i think they might get an unexpected advantage out of this, because they are obviously the victims of a political correctness activism attack, and people are generally fed up with the political correctness gang and their hystrionics.and aggressive activism.