GOG.com

[markec]

What's happening with GOG?

https://af.gog.com/news/fresh_arrivals_from_eroge_japan_crave_your_attention?as=1649904300

I think they missed out on a pun making that headline.

 

[Narushima]

Russian-language forum closed without notice.
Please don't post about it in the general forum. Contact a mod, so that nobody notices.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Seed of the Dead? LOL

That's the least of the shit (gman of course played these.. go figure)
No.... what of TRAPS? Wth?

Another reason to avoid gods, spirits, yokai, aliens, demons, angels, etc.

They just want to trick and rape you. You soul, your mind, and of course... your body. Fail your detect and disarm and fall into TRAPS!

BLARG!!!





hmmm familiar...

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

Russian-language forum closed without notice.
Please don't post about it in the general forum. Contact a mod, so that nobody notices.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Gog's retardo-tier moderators/support staff (with SmollestLight at the forefront) went on a rampage recently and locked dozens of useful/helpful threads re: DRM-free games, some of those threads dated back to the beginnings of their forum:
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/gaming_deals_thread?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_video_games_digital_distributors?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/ep..._play_without_the_epic_launcher?as=1649904300

They went through every post in the Zoom Platform thread and deleted all the links to Zoom's page:
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/zoom_platform/?as=1649904300

They then went on another rampage and locked the threads calling them out on their fucktarded behaviour (this is just a very small selection, as numerous threads got outright nuked):
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/rip_gaming_deals_thread_20092022/
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/awful_decisions/?as=1649904300
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/i_was_writing_an_answer_to_another_user_but_the_thread_dissapeared_out_of_existence/

Both giveaway threads on the gog forum are now locked (at the request of the OP), a replacement thread is already up:
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/the_community_giveaway_gog_edition_redux?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/forum/general/th...nongog_edition_remastered_redux?as=1649904300

You want to know why all these threads were locked? Because one very prolific forum poster, who had been a bit of a thorn in the moderators' eyes, capped a ban for linking to a different storefront (NO ADVERTISING ALLOWED!). When that user complained that there are lots of threads with links to other storefronts, instead of a) reverting the ban or b) ignoring the complaint, these unfathomable retards instead doubled down and locked a shitton of helpful threads.

I was feeling a bit feisty at the sight of these drooling mongoloids going full retard and opened a thread reminding them of login issues that Chinese users appear to be having.

That thread got nuked (not locked, NUKED!) within 2 minutes of me opening it and I got a monthlong ban.

That was roughly 2 months ago and they still haven't addressed the issue.

Again, I'm wondering if they're running the place into the ground on purpose in some sort of The Producers-like scam or whether they're actually that braindead (or possibly both). It's like a certain gamedev said: The SJW termites have rotted the place from the inside out. The only way I see for gog to reverse course would basically involve firing the entire staff.

PS: Check out CDP's financial report for 2021. According to this report GOG lost 25% more money in the single year of 2021 than they made profit during the three years of 2018-2020 combined (including all the Cyberpunk 2077 sales & pre-orders). I can only wonder what the numbers for 2022 will be.

tl;dr: Back up your offline installers!

 

[racofer]

snip

I guess poles are called poles because of that giant pole up their assholes.
This is why you pirate everything.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

What's happening with GOG?

https://af.gog.com/news/fresh_arrivals_from_eroge_japan_crave_your_attention?as=1649904300

This time Poland decided to surrender to Japan instead of Germany. They just skipped past the border problem and turned the port of Danzig into a giant Cosplay convention center.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Again, I'm wondering if they're running the place into the ground on purpose in some sort of The Producers-like scam or whether they're actually that braindead (or possibly both). It's like a certain gamedev said: The SJW termites have rotted the place from the inside out. The only way I see for gog to reverse course would basically involve firing the entire staff.

I feel like a Producers scam implies there's some way that the heads of the company can make money out of this situation. On the other hand, if I knew how to do that, I wouldn't be here, I would be on a nice tropical island in my yacht. No, they just hired the cheapest possible staff. Now they have perverts on their games acquisition department, Indians on their tech department, and the conflict avoidant serving as public relations.

 

[Narushima]

Did they hire mods from ResetEra?

 

[Ravielsk]

And here I thought that after CP2077 they would have come to their senses instead the eternal Pole is more concerned with "punishing ruskies"(a.k.a making sure anyone using Cyrillic just pirates everything) and not making business with China(after bowing down to their "gamers").
I mean how could this not play out in their favor?

 

[Sarathiour]

According to this report GOG lost 25% more money in the single year of 2021 than they made profit during the three years of 2018-2020 combined (including all the Cyberpunk 2077 sales & pre-orders).

How the fuck is that even possible ?

 

[Ryzer]

How the fuck is that even possible ?

ahem

 

[racofer]

How the fuck is that even possible ?

ahem

Get woke go broke. Everybody says that but nobody believes it until it inevitably happens.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

According to this report GOG lost 25% more money in the single year of 2021 than they made profit during the three years of 2018-2020 combined (including all the Cyberpunk 2077 sales & pre-orders).

How the fuck is that even possible ?

I guess they don't know themselves and banked on "not enough anime tiddies" being the answer.

 

[Sarathiour]

How the fuck is that even possible ?

ahem

How fucking hard was it it just keep a platform selling games without DRM while keeping a positive balance.
Was the woman they hired as treasurer on one of those leave ?

 

[Parsifarka]

From Good Old Games, a value-adding prestige project highly regarded by customers and running at an acceptable loss, to literally GOG: a money sinkhole, a bloated monster born by hubris selling broken releases and sinking the company into a dismal hellscape of anime lolis and cringe "narrative experiences" ruled by trannies.

Thinking that once Steam caught up with the retro fad and opened the flood gates for DOSbox configs themselves GOG could stay afloat by beating them at the big boy game while lowering the quality of their releases instead of increasing their specialization and creating their own label for directly acquiring and managing rights over old gems is one of the most deranged decisions I have ever seen from this industry, and there's a shit-ton out there to choose from.
But the fact that they keep insisting in their errors and only pile up new ones, furiously digging up the GOG grave, is what's most astonishing because it's not even like they are cutting costs by doing this —these keep mounting up but get systematically wasted in staggering, patently wrong choices.

The only explanation I can think of for this active self-sabotage is that GOG's budget is being used to steal money away from the company and distribute it among friends, family and potential plaintiffs of CDPR directives, a process that's been accelerated as the prospects of post-Cybercrap 2077 dividends don't look so hot to the owners anymore.
At first it was sad, then comical but as I look back at what Good Old Games once was this yearslong charade becomes frankly infuriating. Bunch of retards.

Statistically, one of the Poles here in the Codex must work at CDPR: we know you are reading this, so please publicly punch in the face whomever is in charge of GOG. Long live the new 'dex.

 

[Infinitron]

instead of increasing their specialization and creating their own label for directly acquiring and managing rights over old gems

This is cope though. It would have been cool PR for CD Projekt but it wouldn't have been some growth engine for the company. I think there's really nothing GOG could have done to grow their business - their real choice was to accept that they were never going to do anything but tread water once all the biggest classics became available.

But at second glance maybe you realize that.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

once all the biggest classics became available.

Many of the most popular games on the site considered "old classics" weren't even a decade old when GOG launched.

 

[Alienman]

It's not like they ran Gog fantastically well before all this. Remember the shutdown stunt?

 

[Lucumo]

According to this report GOG lost 25% more money in the single year of 2021 than they made profit during the three years of 2018-2020 combined (including all the Cyberpunk 2077 sales & pre-orders).

How the fuck is that even possible ?

Didn't they shift Gwent away from GOG? Pretty sure they made a pretty penny with that when it was somewhat popular.

How fucking hard was it it just keep a platform selling games without DRM while keeping a positive balance.

They had designers working tirelessly to completely screw the website up. "People using IE to access the site? Screw them!" (Well, not undeserved, considering IE had always been garbage.) "Forks of popular browsers or smaller ones? Screw the people using those!" As they said: "GOG will only support the latest version of the most popular browsers." Obviously, this is a pretty retarded move, as you want to attract as many customers as possible. And considering a lot of people went there for old games, it wouldn't surprise me if they used old PCs, browsers etc too.

 

[Anthedon]

I downright was a fan of GoG in the beginning. I'd be really interested in all the mangement decisions that led to what the site is now. They must have some actual retards in charge.

 

[Narushima]

It's not like they ran Gog fantastically well before all this. Remember the shutdown stunt?

Hey, they apologised for that!


(That was 12 years ago)

 

[Ismaul]

Don't you hate it when they keep shoving their CoCs down our throats?

So tiresome.

 

[Melcar]

They keep trying to get me to buy shit from them. Just this week I got their newsletter several times and like 5 "exclusive" discount codes.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

From Good Old Games, a value-adding prestige project highly regarded by customers and running at an acceptable loss, to literally GOG: a money sinkhole, a bloated monster born by hubris selling broken releases and sinking the company into a dismal hellscape of anime lolis and cringe "narrative experiences" ruled by trannies.

That's what you get when you do not render unto Gabe what is Gabe's.

 

[Ismaul]

From Good Old Games, a value-adding prestige project highly regarded by customers and running at an acceptable loss, to literally GOG: a money sinkhole, a bloated monster born by hubris selling broken releases and sinking the company into a dismal hellscape of anime lolis and cringe "narrative experiences" ruled by trannies.

That's what you get when you do not render unto Gabe what is Gabe's.

Yet when Gaben is himself rendered unto God, what's happening to GOG will likely seem like a joke compared to what'll happen to Steam.