GOG's supposed "anti-censorship" grandstand is half-assed and duplicitous - /v/ (#717054606) [Archived: 45 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:30:46 AM No.717054606
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Yeah, they're giving all these free WEGs, but where's the Japanese games? You know, the clear biggest targets of censorship since 2018, to the point that now EVERY single mainstream storefront censors or bans them or is at least extremely picky with them? Meanwhile, in the last year, GOG outright started refusing business with an entire publisher of H-games (Kagura Games) AND demanded censorship of a fucking M-rated Vita game (Tokyo Clanpool). That last one is especially telling as it's not porn even uncensored and was sold in general stores in Japan when it first released. What did Kagura Games and Compile Heart ever do to them? Clearly GOG's "anti-censorship" stance doesn't count when the games are Japanese. Before you suck them off for giving away some shitty WEGs and Postal 2, remember this. What worth is their stance if they won't defend the biggest targets of censorship in the modern day? Do not let this issue go ignored. If you have relevant accounts, put them on blast for not defending Japanese games and expression.
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:32:42 AM No.717054698
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>>717054606 (OP)
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:35:10 AM No.717054840
japanese devs are jewish and don't give their games away
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:36:05 AM No.717054893
>>717054606 (OP)
Anything on GoG should be pirated
>bros we totes like made this game compatible OURSELVES with modern Windows
>haha yeahhhh all of it was fan patches we stole and said we made lolz but pay for it instead of just spending ten minutes making it work yourself for free
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:38:29 AM No.717055024
>>717054893
QRD?
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:39:43 AM No.717055085
>>717054893
>do the modding work yourself
Time is money.
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:40:59 AM No.717055148
>>717054606 (OP)
they don't talk to japanese devs. they can't speak japanese
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:42:27 AM No.717055201
>>717054893
>pay
>for gog
huh?
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:42:44 AM No.717055219
>>717054606 (OP)
Here's what happened
GOG: Hey, we're doing a pr stunt that gives away free games to show how much we support you
Handful of WEG "devs" : Sure you can give away my game for free
JP ergoge devs : Fuck off gaijin
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:42:51 AM No.717055226
I'm still pissed at gog for their fakeout shutdown back in like 2010/2011. Even after outrage they kept up the charade for like 3 days. Fuck them.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:43:24 AM No.717055265
>>717055024
Nothing
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:44:40 AM No.717055318
>>717055024
GoG takes fan patches and mods and put them into their releases and claim they are responsible for making it work on modern systems despite literally stealing content from modders

>>717055085
>implying
Bitch, pirate from these scammers instead

>>717055201
Good anon
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:46:09 AM No.717055390
>>717055318
Best I can do is pay you for the complete modded pirated version of games I want.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:46:47 AM No.717055430
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>>717055219
Who's to say one or more of them didn't apply and got refused because GOG doesn't want to advertise "their kind of games"? Besides, that's not what this is really about, this is about GOG grandstanding about being anti-censorship while at the same time censoring or refusing business with Japanese games, the biggest targets of censorship today. GOG's stated message is at odds with their own actions.
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:51:40 AM No.717055674
>>717055430
That's what I am saying. Japs saw through the grift.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:51:49 AM No.717055684
>>717054893
>import game to dosbox
>Sell it as new package
Evil
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:55:41 AM No.717055902
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I agree that the reaction comes a bit late, but even then this is a step in the right direction. All censorship is bad and should be done with it, and if more take the correct side is fine. People should remain vigilant and keep pushing like this anon shows: >>717054698
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:14:07 AM No.717056861
as charged
as charged
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>>717054606 (OP)
Duh. I've stopped paying them since they started taking abandonware off the abandonware sites.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:16:18 AM No.717056980
>>717055318
Should I care?
Modding is by default a hobby. You do it for free.
It's safer to buy a working and tested game for a few bux from GOG than download it from some shady site.
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:21:17 AM No.717057210
>>717054606 (OP)
GOG doesn't have the big eroges though.
If anything Japs should get on GOG and off dlsite
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:26:13 AM No.717057453
>>717057210
Read the OP pic, fag.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:32:38 AM No.717057775
>>717056980
>every mod is on a shady site

I apologize. I thought you weren't a computer retard that did not shill for the scammers
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:55:17 AM No.717059004
>>717055430
Not allowing porn games has nothing to do with censoring.
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 5:57:22 AM No.717059124
>>717059004
How?
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 6:01:44 AM No.717059349
>>717059124
If I own a store, do I have to allow every single type of product?
Does 4chan not allowing scat mean it's censoring something?
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 6:14:41 AM No.717059945
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>>717059349
Yes, it is, especially if you don't make it very clear what you don't take and it isn't simply done in the name of distinguishing yourself from other storefronts. When every storefront from Nintendo to Steam starts doing it, as they are with Japanese games, it is absolutely corporate censorship. GOG took all of these games at a point in time, uncensored, until suddenly they didn't and the publishers were left to take the brunt of having their games that would have been fine a year or two ago suddenly get censored or denied. There are limits to what corporations, especially ones that run platforms that artists and developers rely on for their business, should be allowed to get away with in the name of "muh private company/muh brand". You are seeing this on a global scale at this very moment with VISA/Mastercard/payment networks; will you seriously try to argue that it isn't censorship. You remind me of the "it isn't censorship unless the government does it" types.