Was the GOG forum always this dumb?

[Arctic Blast]

So...uhhh...hi! And stuff.

Seriously, what the Hell? What with the conspiracy theories, the brain dead political discussions, the elitist bullshit and Roman in general that place is just a nest of morons. Was it always this bad? Am I just not remembering? Good grief.

[Ois]

First two years of the forums, you hardly saw any of that stuff.  True, not much was posted early on compared to now, but community standards were much higher.

Lack of moderation as it slided downhill made the gog forums what they are today.

[AndyPanthro]

Wasn't sure where to post this, so here will do:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/mia_goggers

Delixe is missed! Who would have thought it ;)

Also unnamed other GOG veterans. Probably not me, but I posted there anyway.

I preferred it when it was a quieter forum, now the general discussion has so much "noise" (wishlist threads amongst other stuff) that I generally only go there to look at the minecraft threads and pimp my texture pack.

This problem (although it's not a problem to everyone) happens when any forum reaches a certain critical mass. You either have to filter out the threads that bug you, or avoid the forum altogether. I suppose if the ratio of avoid:read is too far towards avoid, then it's probably time to move to another forum.

I guess some people just like a lot of chatter though.

[bansama]

I post far less now than I did before. But yes, the forums are getting rather crap in terms of "subjects" being discussed. Guess a certain someone got his way...

[basilisk]

It is kind of noisy, yeah, but that was inevitable. GOG has gotten popular, and popularity always kills forums.

In general, I don't mind the dumb threads, you can ignore those, but the endless circlejerking about DRM and sucking up to GOG at every opportunity, no matter how slight, is getting very tiresome indeed. It kills all meaningful discussion before it has a chance to develop.

Also, I find that the most elitist people of the bunch are some of the old timers. Go figure.

[bansama]

but the endless circlejerking about DRM and sucking up to GOG at every opportunity, no matter how slight, is getting very tiresome indeed.

I also noticed that any complaint about GOG is immediately down rated into oblivion. GOG fanboys at work I guess.

[Arctic Blast]

In general, I don't mind the dumb threads, you can ignore those, but the endless circlejerking about DRM and sucking up to GOG at every opportunity, no matter how slight, is getting very tiresome indeed. It kills all meaningful discussion before it has a chance to develop.

Good grief, yes! We'll just reduce every single discussion of any game to yet another goddamn topic about DRM/how awesome the 'true believers' think GOG is. It's insufferable.

Also, I find that the most elitist people of the bunch are some of the old timers. Go figure.

I was going to say I don't see many of the old timers. :)

As for me, I avoid elitism and plan to simply focus on white hot rage.

[Delixe]

Delixe is missed! Who would have thought it ;)

I don't miss the son of a bitch.

Well in truth I stopped posting after that shambles of a thread then I enjoyed a decent christmas. Tucked into some of my gaming backlog and never really felt the need to go back posting. Had some fun there before but the tone of the whole place has changed over the last year or so. Rabid fanboys are just one of the reasons but the other is the place is just so ... dry now. Back in the day there were 10-20 threads a day I was interested in reading or replying to but now I struggle to find even one. Most of the people I talked to on GOG are on twitter or Steam anyway so it's no real loss.

[Arctic Blast]

Well, the 'NEW GOG' is live now. Um...so that's it? Really...that's all? Some newer games and some indie stuff, the wishlist is now visible as soon as you enter the Community tab, a few little UI changes...that's all.

Absolutely no changes whatsoever that I could see to the forum software. No ability to ignore anyone, for example. Absolutely no new ability to actually interact with anyone in the community...still can't look at someone else's wishlist, for example. Absolutely nothing meaningful at all.

Yet another built up release that turned out to be a whole lot of hot air.

And the thing is, I didn't expect anything more than what we got. It isn't even surprising or disappointing any more when GOG under delivers.

Edit : And what a SHOCK, the site is yet again broken. The new downloader doesn't let you actually log in to use it...of course, that's par for the course since the damn thing has spent more time busted than working properly for as far back as I can remember. The forum isn't showing the right post counts. GOG staff posts are invisible. And actually posting anything it pretty hit and miss. Another banner affair as the GOG team throws what looks like completely untested code in to the wild and hopes for the best. But hey, the fanboy brigade is losing their shit because...WOAH...new game shelf options! Good grief.

[bansama]

Yeah it is rather stupid. I only really started posting a lot there again due to the release of Anachronox, but yet again their sub par code now gets in the way.

Similarly, I started posting on GameFAQs again - haven't done that for 4 or 5 years, but I see they're now intent on buggering up older usernames so I'll probably just stop visiting those forums again.

I think the age of visiting enjoyable, active communities is long since over for me =/