I get that now that ActiBlizz’s shares have tanked is the best time to snap them up, but at the same time, have they seen what soulless dross ActiBlizz has been producing over the past few years?

Well, here’s hoping they get rid of Kotick, at least.

I don’t know this Bayliss guy, but I already hate his guts. He’s creating MORE scalpers, making a bad situation even worse.

Reminds me of this article from last year. No matter how they try to spin it, scalpers are scum. That’s the long and short of it.

Of course they’re not trying to burn down half the rainforest for a JPEG. What kind of people do you think they are? They’re trying to burn down half the rainforest for a PNG. They’re not savages, you know.

I struggle to think of a reason why anyone in the gaming industry should give this man the time of day after the absolute disasters that were Curiosity and Godus.

Well yeah. That’s what happens when you screw up the launch of the second most expensive game ever produced. It even got pulled from the PlayStation store due to customer complaints. You know, the same store that still sells gems like this. Let that sink in.

The amount of research I have to do before I pull the trigger to buy one of their games made me back up my titles and close my account.

Well put. And I hate it how much I empathize with this sentiment. Every time I want to buy something on GOG I have to make sure it’s not a lesser version of a game available elsewhere. It’s annoying to say the least.

GOG has not been in a good place in the past year. There was the Devotion debacle, Cyberpunk 2077, what a disappointment that was. Then there was the attempted HITMAN release, the fact that the DRM-free game store still sells games with DRM, the fact that Linux users still don’t have an official client, this entire spreadsheet, etc… GOG has been stumbling a lot.

DRM-free stores do have a place and a purpose, but the way GOG has been going about doing things… it’s not great. I do wish they did better. I LIKE the idea of a store that only sells DRM-free games, but the way GOG operates is just half-assed. Here’s hoping 2022 is the year GOG turns things around.