From the GOG newsletter: "A note about your GOG Patrons subscription"
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#GOG
From the GOG newsletter: "A note about your GOG Patrons subscription"
From the GOG newsletter: "A note about your GOG Patrons subscription"
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#GOG
53 Comments
uthredii@programming.dev · 69 pts · 42d
Good Guy GOG
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -52 pts · 42d
Yeah, they're so great for... not charging their monthly donation subscription twice?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 63 pts · 42d
... For giving everyone of them the month for free because they messed up their billing.
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 13 pts · 42d
Also if I may add, having followed GOG for some 9 years now, it always seemed to me like their worst side is transparency/communications, only starting to change in recent years but weakly so. Having them share the information openly, even if by newsletter, is to me quite the improvement already.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -11 pts · 42d
A free month of... access to a discord server?
I can't imagine GOG is losing much
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 42d
Doesn't change the fact that it's a decent move. "Sorry guys we didnt bill you when expected so now we just wont bill you at all until the next interval".
KexPilot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 42d
You had to scroll through a lot on your linked site to get to the part that you copied... It is not a service, it is more of a donation. Hence the name "Patron" I assume.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -14 pts · 42d
I'm pretty sure I knew that already. The other guy said they got a month "for free," which begs the question "what are you getting?"
KexPilot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
Nothing material in the sense that you imply. Access to the community, that's it.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 42d
Thanks, but I'm pretty sure I already knew that too
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 41d
You were wrong and now you're barking at some other thing, a bit pathetic isn't it? It's not life threatening to say you misunderstood. It happens to all of us.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
It's because he has a small penis and being a big dick online helps him forget about it for a moment.
Don't ask me how I know. :/
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 41d
Have i misunderstood. They wouldn't have been charging it twice. They messed up the billing so their options were charge for the missed one or don't charge. Not charge twice....
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -7 pts · 41d
Presumably, if they didn't give everyone affected a "free month" of access to a discord server, they would charge them for the month where there was a mistake and then again for the current month. They'd be charging twice now to make up for the fact that some people weren't charged earlier.
filcuk@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 41d
What? The message literally says they will not be charging for the missed month
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 41d
Why is everyone in this thread telling me what I already said?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 41d
You ever stop to consider that perhaps you're the one having issues communicating with everybody else?
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 41d
I see this like people making comments without reading a linked article in a post: you already think you know what it says so you don't bother actually reading anything to make sure you're right. I don't think it really matters what I say if people aren't even going to bother reading it.
prole@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 41d
So rather than admit you might have been wrong, you invented a situation where you were right
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 41d
It was me explaining how GOG are the good guys, for not charging twice, for their monthly donation subscription.
It's objectively the right thing to do, but it shouldn't even matter because anyone donating to a for-profit company should be financially secure enough to handle a late withdrawal from their account.
So again, while GOG not charging people on the donation subscription plan is the right thing to do, GOG doesn't provide much (if anything) of value for that subscription in the first place.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 33 pts · 41d
Ontimp@feddit.org · 13 pts · 42d
Based
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 41d
Why would anyone donate to a for profit company?
selfmate@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 41d
To support it?
Griffus@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 41d
Good Old Guys
Mac@mander.xyz · -6 pts · 41d
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 9 pts · 41d
Do you have a source for that claim?
Auster@thebrainbin.org · -1 pts · 41d
I can't see such a question without this coming to mind... e.e"
https://tenor.com/view/senator-armstrong-source-i-made-it-up-sauce-take-that-gif-26625795
Mac@mander.xyz · -6 pts · 41d
Of their knowing sharing of Nazi imagery? Yes.
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 9 pts · 41d
Then… can you share that source with us? I won’t just believe you unless you can give me evidence
elvith@feddit.org · 16 pts · 41d
They basically used runes in a newsletter for a promotion of a game that "rendered unfavorably on some devices". Whether it's a QA error or if it was intentional with "plausible deniability" was debated everywhere a few weeks ago.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/GOG-apologizes-for-newsletter-with-SS-runes-in-subject-11321683.html
Mac@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 41d
And not only that, but they said "Hey, Germans will probably he sensitive to these so we'll ship these to everyone but them".
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
It's probably not about sensitivity(people outside of Germany are actually more sensitive to that for obvious reasons) but because it's illegal in Germany.
HereIAm@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 41d
Sure, but the issue remains the same; they absolutely knew what those symbols would be interpreted as, and still went aged with it.
Mac@mander.xyz · -1 pts · 41d
The illegality is the sensitivity.
maus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 41d
German team flagged it, but did not communicate it in time to the other teams.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 41d
The game being advertised talks about how Nazis adopted ancient symbols that previously had nothing to do with Nazis. A problem to have the double lightning bolts there but it's a bit of a stretch to say it's some kind of "tee hee we're actually Nazis" dog whistle bs.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 41d
Source or fuck the hell off.
Mac@mander.xyz · -12 pts · 41d
Go fuck yourself, trash. Learn to read.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 41d
So no source then. Go spread your lies elsewhere.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d
There is quite literally a source posted directly above you. Stop flaming, calm down and take in new information. This was a very well publicized story.
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 41d
A source was already shared hours before you decided to be a dick. Fuck off and read it.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 41d
A relevant source, I do not see one where GOG is ran by nazis mr tourette.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Oh you do have a source? Please share then, I'd like to learn.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 41d
GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers
Mac@mander.xyz · -4 pts · 41d
A source has already been shared, hours ago. You're clearly just trying to be antagonizing.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Not at all, you were the one who said you had a source. So I wanted your source. I've read the ones other people posted. But you are the one antagonizing, because you started this whole source discussion, yet you seem to be the only one who isn't providing one. You're just talking shit and letting everyone else try to back you up.
You wanna parrot what you "heard" and expect others to back you up, but when I ask you for a source, I want yours. But sure, sit on that high horse if you want, but everyone else can see it's not a horse, it's an ass.
Mac@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 41d
Is this satire?