Love to see it from GOG. Now if only they had a Linux launcher akin to Steam Big Picture Mode.
They would be the dream imo
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I wouldn't hold my breath. When they release their latest launcher (2019), it still had example code from the Windows Vista days. Using extremely old libraries to manage storage I believe (or at least accessing storage). So they can't even actually develop a launcher for Windows. When I messaged then about it, they didn't care.
You don't need to back up games yourself. Piracy exists. If a storefront disappears, or otherwise you lose access to a game you licensed, you can always just fish it back from the high seas. Just only buy games without DRM or which's DRM has been cracked already.
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I’m not understand. I’ve had an Xbox for many years. Have many games and have no physical discs. All games still work
I'm here wondering if this quote is going to age like milk or not.
Well, if you download an installer from gog and save it to a disk, it's yours forever, regardless of what gog does. Of course, the window to do so might close with very short notice.
I imagine what they mean is that, in the future, GoG does what seemingly every other successful company that has "good morals" does when they get rich and famous... Renegs for more $$$
See Netflix "we'll never have ads" and using sharing accounts as a promotional tool. And Googles "do no evil". Etc.
Obviously they can't undo your ability to install what you already have, but they could prevent you doing it in the future.
Literally impossible for it to age like milk. They can't remove games from your library, the way every other storefront can
With how it's going with modern games (and current prices of hardware), you'll run out of storage pretty quickly.
Anyone ITT saying GOG is run by Nazis because some AI or intern or something used slavic symbols on an email newsletter better not use any of the following brands:
Volkswagen, Porsche, BMW, Bayer, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ford, General Motors, Chanel, Fanta, Shein, Temu, Zara, H&M, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Gucci, Prada, Dior, Armani, Versace, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Louis Vuitton, L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, McDonald’s, KFC, Tyson Foods.
If you've ever bought any of these brands or even used one of their products once you're also a Nazi, you exploit humans and animals and should be blacklisted from all jobs probably even killed or something idk.
There's probably more brands. Comment them as you see fit!
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slavic symbols
Only 3, but I don't know some of the brands so not sure if they own other stuff I do. Probably safer to assume all brands are unless proven otherwise.
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This is the message we need to hear. The bread and butter. I get so tired of people nitpicking GOG and Mozilla over every relatively minor thing when they are some of the only people trying to hold back the deluge of bullshit.
The Nazi thing is nota nitpick though. They need to address that properly instead of the “sorry we got caught” response they gave.
It's not a nitpick, but also that newsletter is not indicative of GOG being a Nazi organization. The idea that they specifically decided to advertise a new game based on Slavic mythology specifically so that they could send a mass advertisement to half their user base intentionally using Nazi symbolism is wild. It is much more likely that some marketing dimwit Googled "Slavic runes," and copied some random ones from the first site they found.
Screenshot of the first result for "slavic emoji" on google
It's one data point, not a pattern. Definitely something to watch out for, but there's literally nothing else in the history of the company to suggest that they have any white supremacist tendencies
Almost like "slavic emoji" means something... Why does my dog keep crying?
Given it was an advertisement for a game inspired by Slavic mythology, "Slavic emoji" means "advertisement for a game inspired by Slavic mythology" in this case. Do you think the developers of The End Of The Sun are nazis?
The Slav's use the same emoji's as the rest of the world.
I think some idiot was trying to be edgy (👀) and GOG's PR dept obviously sucks, they put the shit out to begin.
btw, that's not a special slavic emoji
It's literally the first result when searching "Slavic emoji" on google. Hanlon's razor applies. Most normal people are not aware of any nazi symbols other than the swastika
Hanlon’s razor applies.
That's why I'm trying to be patient.
Why do suppose that would rank so highly in a search result?
Because most people who search for that are looking for the nazi stuff, not advertising fluff for a Slavic-inspired video game
Yeah I agree with most of what you said. It's concerning though, they could have easily responded with a responding “Nazi shit has no place here, super sorry we let that slip through”
It is much more likely that some marketing dimwit Googled "Slavic runes," and copied some random ones from the first site they found.
That's the part I find doubtful, this sequence can only be found on a site by or about Nazis. I feel like even the dumbest idiot would clock that, but I've underestimated idiots before
this sequence can only be found on a site by or about Nazis.
I mean, that exact sequence is in the header of the first result for an ostensibly innocent google search. Spend some time where normal people hang out, and you'll find that a lot of them can't clock Nazi dogwhistles. I've personally had to explain the significance of "14/88" to people who thought I was nuts for calling the My Pillow guy a nazi
Oof, yeah that'll do it. Seems like emojidb needs a report button.
GOG's founder did eventually give a better reply here (scroll to Mikee's comment): https://www.gog.com/forum/general/nazi_symbols_in_an_email_and_bs_excuse/page18
I'm not convinced GOG owes us any explanation beyond that. Even in the worst case where the accusers are right and it was an intentional dog-whistle, the marketing guy who did it probably gave his superiors the same explanation we got, in which case GOG management genuinely believes they already 100% told us what happened.
Also, the argument that GOG not sending the email to Germany proves they knew that it was bad ahead of time on an organizational level is common enough to be worth addressing here. It ignores how localization is often done, one person writing a template that then goes to others to localize and send out individually. I assume adding some review time between localization and send out is among the process changes they mentioned.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. The first half of mikee’s comment is exactly what I was missing from the official “apology”.
Is this about the Gog Newsletter thing? I’m not 100% informed, but didn’t they pretty much admit that they weren’t aware that ᛋ displayed as ϟ in some devices?
It’s not even a “sorry we got caught” thing, they had nothing to gain by sending a Nazi symbol in their newsletter. What more are they supposed to say?
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Mozilla is the best browser to ever exist and I will die on this hill.
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Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.
Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.
Note: Don't use SSDs for this either. They can easily corrupt and lose information if not powered on for as little as a year, in some cases.
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I love GOG. I miss having a computer.
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