Yes, all spyware is equal. There was no reason to bring China into it. Yours is only the second mention of China in this thread, the first being an obvious strawman by a troll who will later cry on some other forum how toxic the gog forum is, with cultists beating him up for being different. People who fear that China is spying on them (any more than their own country, unless that country actually is China) should be ridiculed, but it doesn't change the argument against Epic one bit.

In my opinion, they are enacting these to deal with the lashback against their storefront and business practices. Tim Sweeny said something interesting a short while back, and that is the 12% cut is actually low. What this means, is that the storefront is barebones by purposeful design, as after calculating figures, they won't earn enough to support features. Currently, they are pretty flush with Fortnite cash, so they can use the money to spend on anything they want. But if they were to be totally dependent on selling third-party games, it won't be sustainable.

Come to think of it, I wonder what Craig will even say in like two decades or so from now. He keeps mentioning Blake Stone as if it's some kind of horrible game that nobody should play.

I wonder what HE will think of the very games he's talking about right now in 20 years.

My predictions about this aren't 100% accurate obviously, but if I remember about his ramblings in say 20 years and find him trashing people for caring about "Metro Exodus, Anthem, Dirt Rally 2," I'll be laughing until the next year.

It's a hard thing to ask, but if anybody remembers him and finds him in twenty years trashing any of the games he's drooling about right now, please notify me.

My impression of the client so far is that it is easy enough to navigate, but unresponsive. I keep clicking buttons several times without really knowing if my click was registered or not (e.g. in order to launch a game) and nothing seems to happen, but then suddenly the game might start.

Also I don't like how little information it seems to give to the user by default. Like now when I merely launched the client in order to get the free Thimbleweed something something, it started updating the Fortnite installation but it doesn't tell me how fast it is downloading, estimated remaining time until it is finished etc. You know, basic stuff that would be really helpful.

Then again, that "let's give the user as little feedback and information" seems to be quite normal nowadays. Even Windows 10 merely asks you to wait and shows a rotating circle animation or rolling dots animation, and you don't have the faintest idea what it is doing, how far it is, how long you will be still waiting, whether it is stuck and that animation is all you will be seeing for the rest of your life etc.

One thing I like in Linux much more, more feedback to the user. I don't have to understand it all, as long as I see it is doing SOMETHING, and there are no big red error signs and failures in the output.

What an ignorant and self-entitled assumption.... The 'natives' of GOG are the people who like old games, period. The absence of DRM was merely a bonus. DRM has never really been a concern for older games unless you tried to pirate them. It's merely a marketing tool to attract snowflakes. The games with the worst DRM will NEVER be released DRM-free anyway.

A proper restaurant analogy would be that GOG was a multicultural restaurant for people with different tastes that also happened to serve vegan meals, then you got a mob of rabid vegans who moved in the restaurant "occupy style" and started pretending that the main purpose of the restaurant was to promote veganism, while glaring at anyone who dared to enter the restaurant without sharing their beliefs. GOG soon realized that the vegan mob spent significantly more money on average so they plastered a "FCKDRM" sign in the front window, strengthening their delusions further.

To those who think they actually own the games they buy, just try reselling your copy when you're done with it and tell me if you still own it.