So I'll just make this post. Perhaps a moderator can delete this later. Below is the first of two posts I would like to report.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/has_a_game_ever_overpowered_your_system/post55

Oh, sorry, my bad, I didn't see that. I posted there too. May this can be deleted.

Seeing as there are posts reported for months that are still up, wouldn't keep hopes up.

No harm done

No (spam) removals done either, by the look of things... :p

I would not bother too much with the spambot report thread that has been posted here. Mods do absolutely nothing about those spam posts. I have reminded them the fifth time to delete ONE post and it is still there. I am starting to not just doubt their capabilities, I am starting to doubt their work ethics.

Edit: Just like Cavalary said.

Or their work status. As in: are there any that are actually employed here to do the job...

Yeah, I've wondered for years about GOG's "work ethics" too, and the thing is, it's not getting better. In fact, it appears as though the lack of.... something... has gotten worse. I don't know if that something is competence, motivation, resources, work culture issues.... I dunno. But I have posted here for years about how I don't understand their seeming inability or lack of motivation to put the very best product they can before they buying public, at the most critical point. In a restaurant, that would mean the building you walk into and sit down to eat at. You can have the best food every prepared by humankind, but if your restaurant has a leaky roof, rats running everywhere, and molded food slung on the walls.... good luck with that business model.

With a webstore it's your.... website. Duh. It doesn't matter what games you sell (even more so in a game webstore than a restaurant in that it is possible that despite having a horrible setting, the food itself is distinguishable. Not so here. The games you buy here are no different... for the most part there are obviously exceptions, than the games you can buy at any other video game webstore. This website is the first, the main, and really the ONLY place you have an opportunity to "make an impression" on potential customers. Yet.... GOG just doesn't care.

And here's the world's worst kept secret. In a for profit business, when push comes to shove, no matter how enlightened or well meaning management may be, when there is conflict the ultimate decision is what's best, as in financially, for the company. NOT what's best for the customers.

So if, say GOG's problems are potentially fatal, you/we won't ever know until it happens. You simply can't, from a business perspective, at least it seems to me, put out any kind of "warning" to your current customers that things are going bad because... duh... that will lead to things going bad faster. What I'm trying to say is if you haven't downloaded every game you own on GOG, now is the time to do it. Because if things go sideways, you most likely won't get a notice beforehand and your games will be gone... forever. And even if they were able to give some sort of warning before going out of business, it would by default have to be a short one, and well, guess what's going to happen when every GOG customer tries to download every game after that warning is issued.

I've loved GOG from the beginning. There no DRM stance is one that should be standard in the world, not a unique selling point. But for whatever reason, man they don't seem to care one iota about this website and this website is where every current, new, and potential customer has their first, last and every impression from this business.

Not rechecking the numbers now, so going from memory and may be off, but I recall them reporting a profit of a million and something, which may appear low compared to what a large company would be expected to have, but when you compare to the previous several years, when they either had losses or just broke even, with profits on the order of mere thousands... (Not to mention with Epic, which isn't playing on the same field and isn't meant to earn money, losing something like half a billion I think so far.) And then there are this year's releases, which really do seem like they had breakthroughs with some publishers. So they seem to be precisely on that path you talk about, what's good for the business but not for the customer...

^ this.
If you don't prepare, then only Gogbear will patiently listen to your laments.

Let's see, the most recent holiday of relevance would have been Saint John's Day? Then Pentecost Sunday or Corpus Christi, but I don't know where those fall as a non-liturgist. Next would be Warsaw Uprising day, and maybe Police Day. Yesterday was the protest remembrance day, and point of matter, it's useless having forum staff who follow holiday schedules, as they have too many holidays in Poland. (And that's not accounting for additional holidays of the European Union.)

No such thing. lol

Maybe I'm a utilitarian industrialist, but accounting for productivity rates one can indeed have too many holidays to be effective. In a society free of that dreadful specter known as Capitalism, by all means, have all the holidays you want.

Grant individuals many days off, but perhaps don't grind your country to a screeching halt every other week because checks notes, rewrites accordingly the Church of Trek says it's time to pray to Dr. Spock.

Well, the good news from the evidence in this thread (apparently reports do nothing and posts against the rules remain) is that you need not worry about anyone reading that, deciding it's against the "no political" speech in threads rule, and reporting it will result in any negative consequence. So there is that.

I never understand how you could have such a rule anyway. Is there any speech that isn't political? Seems to me an easy case to make that there is no such thing as speech completely devoid of all politics, in addition to, you know, the case that there is no such thing as too many holidays.