Same here.

The whole things has a massive "grift" vibe, especially given that they're double dipping since supporters of their "Game preservation efforts" still have to pay for those games.

Happy to keep on buying games from them in preference to from Steam, some even from the "Good old game" bucket, just not willing to assume a monthly monetary commitment to some black-box "trust us" which feels a lot like the "Charity as a business" shit from the most sleazy "charities" out there (you know the kind: the ones with CEOs paid massive salaries and were only a small fraction of contributions actually ends up in the charitable objective).

Gog has been my preference for a few years now, but there's no way I'm subscribing to a patreon that gets me literally nothing. I honestly assumed at first you'd get something out of it at first, like a free game from the preservation program every month or something similar to Amazon Prime's giveaways. Its honestly cause me to start to re evaluate how much I purchase from them. Its kinda skeezy.

Something tells me the "double down" is to distract from that fallout

Was there another incident besides the 2026 sales promo image? I was a bit disappointing of their "response" if you can could call it that. But I don't really see this as "pushing AI", as far as I can tell this might just be an intern who was given the task to make a promo image and did not care at all.

Push slop and lose your business there will aways be other services that are more ethical.

If there's someone else doing the same work, by all means give to them instead.

I recently replayed Warrior Within as well.

I should say, there's still plenty of modern games that don't involve those kinds of things.

I don’t think they have even one game in their catalogue that StopKillingGames is about.

game based discussion boards

These already exist, every store page has a "Forum discussion" link. You can also go here and you should find the "game specific forum" section where you can search for whatever game.

Apart from the fact that all things you listed exist in one form or another on GOG, have you considered that there are people that prefer not having all those random bullshit social features in their game store? Stream may be more popular, but getting out of their niche and copying steam will alienate their fans without attracting steam users.

Also fuck the workshop, it's the worst thing that ever happened to modding. It's a total pain in the ass to download and apply a mod that is only available there to any non-steam version. Additionally it produced a generation of gamers that is unable to trouble-shoot even the tiniest problem with the mods they applied.

It's very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.

Why do you need family sharing if the games are DRM free? If the kid wants to play a game from your account you just pass him the exe, what's the issue

Controller support depends from the game, if you mean a controller remapper like steam, then you either use a third party remapper or you simply add the shortcut in steam. With heroic launcher you can add gog games in your steam list with a single click