Zeus
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Tails said:Zeus said:It's the people who say things like, "GOG is selling abandonware!" that bother me. It's a total misuse of the term. They might as well be calling Fallout 1 a JRPG.
It's in the same way pointless like all those GoG crusaders who want to suddenly convert the whole world to purchase games from there. Which is in the same way pointless.
Er, I guess? Don't really see the connection between misusing a word and suggesting a business. But you're right, it's ill-advised to say the least.
Why would customers--er, crusaders--suddenly want to convince everyone to buy from Good Old Games? It's the existing customers who are pissed; they couldn't download their games for four days. Some customers paid for games they didn't even get a chance to download when the site went down without warning.
If anything, existing customers were probably a lot more likely to recommend Good Old Games before last week. The kind of people who obsess over things like DRM and recommend GOG to their friends are just the type who are going to be ticked off about a hoax/four-day outage.
Personally, I don't feel comfortable buying from GOG right now. Not after that PR stunt. I hate to encourage that kind of thoughtless bid for attention.