Quoting: Patola

Quoting: liamdaweThe point is how they used it. They used it for nothing more than jumping in the timeline of everyone following a very toxic and sensitive hashtag, to promote their game store. It was a poor decision. It was not a positive message, GOG had literally nothing to do with it and no reason to do it other than get sales. It's a watering down of the meaning, for free advertising.

This is illogical. It's a (bland) joke, so in a sense it's a "watered-down" of the meaning of the slogan, but... For games! Not for people! You can not infer anything else, and you can not expect an impactful slogan to be mentioned and quoted. Marketing guys are specially prone to getting pop culture references and that's nice too. Now you mention ANOTHER hashtag (a negative one) which they did not use, why even mention it then? It's not relevant to that merit! You can't just go around getting the very worst imaginable interpretation of anything and ask for retribution - it destroys debate, dialogue, free speech and many other values dear to society as a whole.

Quoting: liamdaweI'm shocked some people really don't understand this

Liam, I perfectly understood your/their point. No need to diminish my argumentation saying it's a problem of understanding, ok?

Sorry, but you clearly still just don't get it from your reply there. You repeatedly claim it's all about games, showing how you just don't have a basic understanding of the issue at hand.

There's nothing illogical about it, I have already explained literally why what GOG did was dumb.

The only hashtag I mentioned is the one they used. I have no idea what other tag you're talking about, the article linked to what we're all talking about. Again, you're confusing things.

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: liamdawebut if you don't use Twitter - you're except from that since you probably wouldn't understand how any of it works.

Anyway, totally my own fault for even mentioning it. Will be much warier of speculating on such a thing next time. Very hot topic, never fun to be around.

The 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.

I didn't actually pick a side. Saying something is dumb, is not picking a side.

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Quoting: MayeulCWelcome updates!

Does the improved UI plays nicer with AMD GPUs? IIRC it was an outdated version of CEF, or something like this, that was causing issues.

As mentioned, they haven't done that yet.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: 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!

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: 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!

That's exactly this lack of logic I'm criticizing. GOG used #wewontbeerased for games. It is a positive message, a message of resistence from opression. The Final Solution is the name for a very sinister directive of nazism. Your pretend-joke is nothing like the case. Mentioning the Final Solution as a joke might trigger people. Mentioning the anti-trump slogan should NOT trigger trans people -- if anything, trump supporters or people against trans people should be the ones triggered. And doing all this undeserved outrage only undermines the cause, picturing one side as whiny babies. Why can't you see that?

The point is how they used it. They used it for nothing more than jumping in the timeline of everyone following a very toxic and sensitive hashtag, to promote their game store. It was a poor decision. It was not a positive message, GOG had literally nothing to do with it and no reason to do it other than get sales. It's a watering down of the meaning, for free advertising.

I'm shocked some people really don't understand this, but if you don't use Twitter - you're exempt from that since you probably wouldn't understand how any of it works.

Anyway, totally my own fault for even mentioning it. Will be much warier of speculating on such a thing next time. Very hot topic, never fun to be around.

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I get it's a hot topic everyone, but please do try to keep some cool heads. After all, it might be totally unrelated.

Let's not go throwing any insults around, we're an inclusive community and let's keep it that way.

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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?

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.

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.

You think a gaming site, writing about what a games store did isn't on topic? I don't agree, I think people were right to highlight it no matter what. It's not promoting outrage, it's highlighting something they did. It was a very poor decision by the person running the GOG account.

You can still support GOG, I do. I don't let a single person at a company who made a dumb decision affect everything I do. As long as they learn from it and stick to what they're good at.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ixnariI must be jaded as hell, because I thought that tweet was pretty funny. That said, GOG's use of that particular hashtag while this whole anti-trans kerfuffle is going on might not have been the best idea. I would still very much like to hear Hinterland's reason why they've decided to pull their game from GOG.

Yeah, it actually seems it's unlikely to be caused by a twitter post, if that was the reason they'd have publicly stated it already as it's basically nothing more than a publicity stunt (albeit targeting the people who won't buy your games in the first place).

I'd like to know as well what made them want to leave.

How is that unlikely? Several other developers have pulled their games due to this recent Twitter debacle while giving official statements on how it's not acceptable behaviour from a games store. The timing actually suggests that this is the reason even though Hinterland hasn't given any explanation.

You know, I haven't actually heard of any that did. Care to note a few?

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I've no doubt they will work towards that, especially now they've begun improving all aspects of it.

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What'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.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not clear what point you're making.

I'm not either, they lost me completely.

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Quoting: sarmadHow can you play a game from Humble Bundle through Proton?

Same as any other Steam game.

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