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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Quoting: fabertaweGOG should have had more sense than to post that. The level of uproar and backlash however, is just ludicrous.My thoughts exactly. The comments here only further show how dumb their tweet was.
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Quoting: fabertaweI'm so happy having no knowledge of Twitter and Facebook, etc, etc. Somebody somewhere will always be offended by everything. Free speech is already irreparably damaged in the UK.
GOG should have had more sense than to post that. The level of uproar and backlash however, is just ludicrous.
What level of uproar? Some people are upset, there have been a small handful of articles calling them out on it, and an even smaller handful of game companies (allegedly) withdrew from the storefront over it.
If you want a big hue and cry, just look at the "GOG did nothing wrong" crowd in this very thread going on about how unjust it is, and how free speech is endangered, and they'll never buy a game from Hinterland again, and how SJWs somehow run the whole world. There's histrionics for you.
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Quoting: fabertaweI'm so happy having no knowledge of Twitter and Facebook, etc, etc. Somebody somewhere will always be offended by everything. Free speech is already irreparably damaged in the UK.
So "backlash", or as I would put it, pointing out when someone did something inappropriate, is not covered under your definition of free speech? Interesting.
Not that this controversy has anything to do with free speech to begin with.
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Quoting: PatolaThe problem was not so much mentioning it as so openly choosing a side - which one commenter promptly exposed, like with the "dumb" adjective to refer to the tweet.
Actually, I don't see his comment as picking a side, and I apologize if I made it sound so.
I just think the [linked eurogamer.net] article is atrocious, as it only paints a picture of GOG as dumb. But that is only a personal attack by GOG's detractors.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: the3dfxdudeMy article is atrocious for speculating on a single thing, that has as shown by another comment, caused another developer to withdraw their support for GOG? I would call that pretty on point.Quoting: PatolaThe problem was not so much mentioning it as so openly choosing a side - which one commenter promptly exposed, like with the "dumb" adjective to refer to the tweet.
Actually, I don't see his comment as picking a side, and I apologize if I made it sound so.
I just think the article is atrocious, as it only paints a picture of GOG as dumb. But that is only a personal attack by GOG's detractors.
If you think a single mention of something I deem dumb, well, you have an extremely low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own eh?
I think the3dfxdude was referring to the Eurogamer article, not yours. Not that I find either of them offensive, but yours is certainly not stepping on anyone's toes.
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Quoting: BrisseWell then. Confusing.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: the3dfxdudeMy article is atrocious for speculating on a single thing, that has as shown by another comment, caused another developer to withdraw their support for GOG? I would call that pretty on point.Quoting: PatolaThe problem was not so much mentioning it as so openly choosing a side - which one commenter promptly exposed, like with the "dumb" adjective to refer to the tweet.
Actually, I don't see his comment as picking a side, and I apologize if I made it sound so.
I just think the article is atrocious, as it only paints a picture of GOG as dumb. But that is only a personal attack by GOG's detractors.
If you think a single mention of something I deem dumb, well, you have an extremely low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own eh?
I think the3dfxdude was referring to the Eurogamer article, not yours. Not that I find either of them offensive, but yours is certainly not stepping on anyone's toes.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: BrisseWell then. Confusing.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: the3dfxdudeMy article is atrocious for speculating on a single thing, that has as shown by another comment, caused another developer to withdraw their support for GOG? I would call that pretty on point.Quoting: PatolaThe problem was not so much mentioning it as so openly choosing a side - which one commenter promptly exposed, like with the "dumb" adjective to refer to the tweet.
Actually, I don't see his comment as picking a side, and I apologize if I made it sound so.
I just think the article is atrocious, as it only paints a picture of GOG as dumb. But that is only a personal attack by GOG's detractors.
If you think a single mention of something I deem dumb, well, you have an extremely low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own eh?
I think the3dfxdude was referring to the Eurogamer article, not yours. Not that I find either of them offensive, but yours is certainly not stepping on anyone's toes.
I think it's a bit confusing too, and I could certainly be wrong :)
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: the3dfxdudeMy article is atrocious for speculating on a single thing, that has as shown by another comment, caused another developer to withdraw their support for GOG? I would call that pretty on point.Quoting: PatolaThe problem was not so much mentioning it as so openly choosing a side - which one commenter promptly exposed, like with the "dumb" adjective to refer to the tweet.
Actually, I don't see his comment as picking a side, and I apologize if I made it sound so.
I just think the article is atrocious, as it only paints a picture of GOG as dumb. But that is only a personal attack by GOG's detractors.
If you think a single mention of something I deem dumb, well, you have an extremely low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own eh?
Liam, I was referring the the eurogamer.net article as atrocious. Not your article. That's all I've been intending to make a point on. You're getting off track completely trying to pull out a point "low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own". What is this supposed comment thread to be about now?
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Quoting: the3dfxdudeCompletely ignore what I said then :)Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: the3dfxdudeMy article is atrocious for speculating on a single thing, that has as shown by another comment, caused another developer to withdraw their support for GOG? I would call that pretty on point.Quoting: PatolaThe problem was not so much mentioning it as so openly choosing a side - which one commenter promptly exposed, like with the "dumb" adjective to refer to the tweet.
Actually, I don't see his comment as picking a side, and I apologize if I made it sound so.
I just think the article is atrocious, as it only paints a picture of GOG as dumb. But that is only a personal attack by GOG's detractors.
If you think a single mention of something I deem dumb, well, you have an extremely low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own eh?
Liam, I was referring the the eurogamer.net article as atrocious. Not your article. That's all I've been intending to make a point on. You're getting off track completely trying to pull out a point "low tolerance for anyone having thoughts of their own". What is this supposed comment thread to be about now?
Future reference: do be clear what article you're talking about :D
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Quoting: kuhpunktQuoting: PatolaIt even raises awareness that such motto exists.
That's baffling. What's next? Will Proton be the #FinalSolution for playing games on Linux? Look, I raised awareness to the Holocaust!
No you didn't (or rather wouldn't if tweeted). You'd make fun of 6 million murdered people by using an euphemism used solely by the Nazi for their genocide. That's not raising awareness. That's just plain stupid. Or vile. I get triggered on that since I hear such "funny quotes" much more frequently in recent times, both from "normal people" and politicians.
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