Here's a curious one, the survival adventure The Long Dark from Hinterland Studio is going to be leaving GOG.
What's even stranger, is that GOG have an agreement with the developer that anyone who currently owns it or purchases it up until it leaves will still get updates to it. This only usually happens when developers are unhappy with GOG in terms of features, service or the "hassle" of supporting more than one store.
Here's what GOG said on their forum:
We'd like to give you a heads-up that on November 7th, 2pm UTC, The Long Dark will be removed from our catalog.
If you were not sure whether you wish to have this exploration-survival game or not, now is a good time to decide :)
Those who already own the games, or will purchase them before this Wednesday, will of course still be able to access them through their library. All owners will also have access to updates even after the game’s removal.
They also clarified here the agreement on updates.
No reason, however, has been given by either party on why this is happening, so I have reached out to Hinterland to see if they can let us know why and I will update this article if they reply. I don't want to speculate on it too much, but perhaps it's as a result of GOG's recent dumb tweet.
So after November 7th (tomorrow) you will have either Humble Store or Steam. If you decide you want it on GOG, find it here for now.
Hat tip to Doomguy in our Discord.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Too bad SJWs control any aspect of life now. One can't say anything without making a bunch of people offended and having activists on your tail.
When in good old 2005 I worked on software first line support for a bit, we there were clearly instructed to never provide help to people when they ask, just listen to them, uncderstand them, comfort them, but never provide technical help unless people insist. In this case we should have provided redirection call to "specialist" (which was just another person in the same room). This was because of hysterical outbreaks of people, who were not calling for technical help but for comfort. They just wanted to talk. And if they got technical help instead, they just stopped paying for support contracts.
The good thing was that in Internet technical forums people wanted technical support, so one could talk freely. Now if you just help people on forum I see the same as was my old shitty job - constant hysterical outbreaks on you because people come on tech forums not to get tech help, but to socialize and force their political agenda, pretending to want answers to tech questions. So if I accidentally help such person I'm generally become persona non grata, as people build hate mob against me, for saying something these SJWs fight agains. Or just start accusing of being rude, trying very hard to prove that I specially selected words to hide attempt to insult them. Or just accusing me of being sexist or white (I'm not even US citizen and US madness still haunts me!). So common attack by ambush.
This reminds me of 90s when Feminists were rising and their activists allowed men to help them on street (like out of bus, with heavy bags, etc.) then accused the victim of harassment or even some kind of rape they invented. This effectively made men stop helping women on street at all, as nobody wanted to be arrested.
Now that behavior prevented me from helping people on some tech forums. And things become worse each year. I hope somebody will do something about this eventually, as this effectively kills free speech and good will in communities.
When in good old 2005 I worked on software first line support for a bit, we there were clearly instructed to never provide help to people when they ask, just listen to them, uncderstand them, comfort them, but never provide technical help unless people insist. In this case we should have provided redirection call to "specialist" (which was just another person in the same room). This was because of hysterical outbreaks of people, who were not calling for technical help but for comfort. They just wanted to talk. And if they got technical help instead, they just stopped paying for support contracts.
The good thing was that in Internet technical forums people wanted technical support, so one could talk freely. Now if you just help people on forum I see the same as was my old shitty job - constant hysterical outbreaks on you because people come on tech forums not to get tech help, but to socialize and force their political agenda, pretending to want answers to tech questions. So if I accidentally help such person I'm generally become persona non grata, as people build hate mob against me, for saying something these SJWs fight agains. Or just start accusing of being rude, trying very hard to prove that I specially selected words to hide attempt to insult them. Or just accusing me of being sexist or white (I'm not even US citizen and US madness still haunts me!). So common attack by ambush.
This reminds me of 90s when Feminists were rising and their activists allowed men to help them on street (like out of bus, with heavy bags, etc.) then accused the victim of harassment or even some kind of rape they invented. This effectively made men stop helping women on street at all, as nobody wanted to be arrested.
Now that behavior prevented me from helping people on some tech forums. And things become worse each year. I hope somebody will do something about this eventually, as this effectively kills free speech and good will in communities.
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Quoting: GuestHow could anyone even interpret that as something political or bad? And why should anyone give a single fuck about what people who are dumb and autistic enough to be triggered by that think?
It was tasteless, because the issue the hashtag was about is rather serious. (Ab)using something like this to promote yourself is dumb. That has nothing to do with SJW or whatever... just human decency. And do you even know what autistic means?
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Quoting: LeopardOMG , what is wrong with using a hashtag that really goes on with what GOG ( Good Old Games ) claimed when it is first came out?
Is hashtags are proprietary things now?
I think GOG didn't do any wrong with it , just usual SJW's trying to attack everyone who doesn't agree with them or just not giving actual care what they're doing.
It's important to note that this was the third time GOG made an insensitive tweet. First time might have been an honest mistake and people were forgiving and politely pointed out their mistake, but then it happened again and again and a pattern started forming.
No, of course hashtags aren't proprietary but do you not see how inappropriate it is to purposely hijack a hashtag about a current political/social issue and using it for advertising a games store?
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Quoting: LeopardIs hashtags are proprietary things now?
I think GOG didn't do any wrong with it , just usual SJW's trying to attack everyone who doesn't agree with them or just not giving actual care what they're doing.
Of course hashtags aren't proprietary, but don't pretend that there was no given context. They used it at the very moment the situation became an issue. To use it was just dumb.
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Windousico Nov 6, 2018
This is important: "GOG should focus only on games." Avoid political hashtags/discussions on gaming social networks/websites.
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Quoting: BrisseQuoting: LeopardOMG , what is wrong with using a hashtag that really goes on with what GOG ( Good Old Games ) claimed when it is first came out?
Is hashtags are proprietary things now?
I think GOG didn't do any wrong with it , just usual SJW's trying to attack everyone who doesn't agree with them or just not giving actual care what they're doing.
It's important to note that this was the third time GOG made an insensitive tweet. First time might have been an honest mistake and people were forgiving and politely pointed out their mistake, but then it happened again and again and a pattern started forming.
No, of course hashtags aren't proprietary but do you not see how inappropriate it is to purposely hijack a hashtag about a current political/social issue and using it for advertising a games store?
I didn't know about first two incidents, i even learned third one thanks to this news.
But how is that inappopriate? There is no attack / hostility in that tweet.
I think GOG even made a supportive move about that hashtag. Since that hashtag is about something identity related ,
old games in gaming industry also have a problem with it. They're facing all kind of issues , either company that made these games is not caring about them anymore and there is no way to legitly purchase them or company is not caring about game anymore and people who owned that game cannot enjoy with them without going some hoops in order to run them on modern systems.
Literally , GOG also represents gaming side of #WontBeErased
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Quoting: LeopardBut how is that inappopriate? There is no attack / hostility in that tweet.
I think GOG even made a supportive move about that hashtag. Since that hashtag is about something identity related ,
old games in gaming industry also have a problem with it. They're facing all kind of issues , either company that made these games is not caring about them anymore and there is no way to legitly purchase them or company is not caring about game anymore and people who owned that game cannot enjoy with them without going some hoops in order to run them on modern systems.
Literally , GOG also represents gaming side of #WontBeErased
How can you not recognize the issue at hand? Just because it's no attack doesn't mean it was a good idea. And how in the world can you describe this as a supportive move? That doesn't help anybody. Throwing the preservation of games in the same pot as human rights... seriously?
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Good on Hinterland for taking a principled stand, assuming that's actually what's happening here. Honestly, none of us know for sure yet.
Trying to co-opt people who are literally fighting for their rights for corporate purposes is a dick move, and it should come with consequences, and honestly this is barely a slap on the wrist all things considered. I doubt people here would put up with similar from a big bank, or Microsoft, or Apple, but they give this a pass because it's a company who does stuff they like. Plus, I think in some cases, a pre-existing bias against anyone connected to any social justice cause. But yeah, gamers. It's what I've come to expect.
Trying to co-opt people who are literally fighting for their rights for corporate purposes is a dick move, and it should come with consequences, and honestly this is barely a slap on the wrist all things considered. I doubt people here would put up with similar from a big bank, or Microsoft, or Apple, but they give this a pass because it's a company who does stuff they like. Plus, I think in some cases, a pre-existing bias against anyone connected to any social justice cause. But yeah, gamers. It's what I've come to expect.
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Quoting: liamdaweWhat's amusing to one person, is highly offensive to another. Such is the way of life and the internet especially on such a toxic topic for a lot of people.
Despite my own personal feelings on it, which I won't bring up, I think it was very dumb for a games store to post. They are a business after all, not a joke personal account for someone. There is an expectation to have a certain level of professionalism and sensitivity to issues.
Why does a gaming publication, the one you link to, push a non-gaming controversy instead of just writing about games? Seems like a coordinated attack to me. There is an expectation to have a certain level of professionalism and sensitivity to issues. Instead they *promote* outrage. Calling someone "Gat0r-trash" and ensuring that whole tweet is featured, saving deleted tweets and sharing so you make sure everyone sees it anyway to outrage people, dissertating a whole history for further negativity.
Why can't people just handle others gracefully and just let bygones be bygones?
QuoteNo reason, however, has been given by either party on why this is happening, so I have reached out to Hinterland to see if they can let us know why and I will update this article if they reply. I don't want to speculate on it too much, but perhaps it's as a result of GOG's recent dumb tweet.
Now thanks to this speculation, I no longer want to comment whether to support GOG or Hinterland, because it wades into appearing to take sides in a stupid political fight.
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Avehicle7887 Nov 6, 2018
I think there's a different reason than this SJW stuff. Tbh I didn't know about the tweet until I read about it on the forums and hell if I knew what the hashtag even meant, I find twitter quite stupid and never bothered to open an account.
Some people mentioned something about consoles and a new publisher, which is a more credible reason to me.
For what it's worth, the devs of Steamworld Heist have stopped updating the GOG release for almost a year because of some publishing deal they can't talk about.
This is a game I was interested to buy when all the episodes are complete so hopefully it will be sold again at some point.
Some people mentioned something about consoles and a new publisher, which is a more credible reason to me.
For what it's worth, the devs of Steamworld Heist have stopped updating the GOG release for almost a year because of some publishing deal they can't talk about.
This is a game I was interested to buy when all the episodes are complete so hopefully it will be sold again at some point.
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