GOG has launched the Freedom to Buy initiative, offering delisted or controversial games for free to protest silent censorship and promote access to legal, responsibly made titles.
  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    75·
    4 个月前

    FYI, clicking the “Claim now!” button under a game will still claim the whole bundle

    i now own a bunch of porn games cuz i wanted to try Postal 2 -_-

    edit: it is thankfully possible to hide games from your library, tho unfortunately heroic games launcher does not care 😖

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      4 个月前

      FYI, clicking the “Claim now!” button under a game will still claim the whole bundle

      i now own a bunch of porn games cuz i wanted to try Postal 2 -_-

      Uhh, yeah me too. And they used my credit card to sign up for porn. Smh, GOG

  • wagesj45@fedia.io
    251·
    4 个月前

    Anyone else having issues redeeming it? Hope I can nab them before the deadline.

    Nevermind, I got it when I disabled my PiHole. 🤷

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      4 个月前

      I couldn’t redeem on my phone until I opened Firefox instead of embedded chrome and log into GoG before I could get past the damned Cloudflare hell

      • wagesj45@fedia.io
        21·
        4 个月前

        I hate Cloudflare so much. It’s getting to the point that some apps I use in browser will just stop working, and when I reload the tab to reset it, turns out Cloudflare was blocking the traffic until I do their stupidass human test.

    • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      4 个月前

      Nevermind, I got it when I disabled my PiHole. 🤷

      Quite ironic, given the subject

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    4 个月前

    I haven’t played a porn game since I was a teen in highschool. 20-odd years ago. Now I own a whole mess of the things.

  • JustTheWind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    4 个月前

    Great catch! Thanks for sharing! As if I needed any more reason to respect GOG more than I already do. GOG always have been the OG GigaChads of online game merchants.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 个月前

    Whether you fellows like the games or not is not the point, the point is to get the games on principle alobe (ie; Oppose censorship)

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 个月前

    Plot twist - what Collective Shout wanted all along was to get these specific games for free (and more importantly - without official transactions to prove they’ve bought them)

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    4 个月前

    The exact list of games is as follows:

    • POSTAL 2
    • Agony + Agony UNRATED
    • Leap of Love
    • Being a DIK – Season 1
    • Leap of Faith
    • House Party
    • HuniePop
    • Lust Theory
    • Treasure of Nadia
    • Summer’s Gone – Season 1
    • Fetish Locator Week One
    • Sapphire Safari
    • goodnighttothe_spoon@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      4 个月前

      I legit thought this was a joke at first. They really said here have all these porn games. Not that I ever paid for them anyways, or played them even …

        • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
          11·
          4 个月前

          Haha it’s a little weird! Postal 2 isn’t a porn game, but is ultraviolent and has been generating controversy for 20 years!

          Still got it, Postal Guy

          • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            4 个月前

            Free marketing for Running with Scissors.

            I used to live in Tucson, I knew a couple guys at Running with Scissors and yeah this doesn’t surprise me. Dudes are pros at getting their names out there free of charge. When there’s any sort of controversy of even the slightest thing in the games industry they WILL try and slap Postal on it. it works. they’ve been around for like 30 years now and have made like what? 4 postal games? and then remastered the others a few times that they had other devs work on. Completely independent too. They’re not a huge company but everyone that works for them has been comfortable without much effort for some time now.

  • x0x7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 个月前

    I’m for this because I want those games. But let’s talk strategy. Didn’t GoG just set the market value of those games to zero? Weren’t they already hurt by the censorship? Wouldn’t it be better to just give them a fair market to sell on?

    • zeca@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      4 个月前

      They probably cant do this unilaterally. Maybe gog paid for those copies and they are limited in quantity.

  • GriffinClaw@lemmy.zipEnglish
    80·
    4 个月前

    Bless you, GOG. If you werent so expensive in my country, Id completly port my Steam lib in a heartbeat.

    Ima grab the titles at least :)

  • PunnyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    4 个月前

    Strange. I redeemed the code, it shows in my purchase history, but none of the games show up in my collection. Oh well.