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CENSORSHIP
IS QUIETLY DECIDING
WHICH GAMES YOU CAN BUY.

GOG is fighting back.

https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

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[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 134 points 2 days ago

"Some games vanish. Not because they broke the law but because someone decided they shouldn’t exist."

Fuckin' ay, man. Fuckin' ay.

I love being able to help protest by playing... (checks notes) Helping the Hotties... πŸ˜‰

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did not give a shit about NSFW games but I fucking hate cebsorship.

Go GoG, I'm going to buy one from them now!

... for the protest of course.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 47 points 2 days ago

Don't forget your protest lotion!

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hoooly shit I thought it was just one game. But hot damn they just gave all those games away for free. Just claim it once. I even thought it might be a scam cause of the url but its legit!

[–] brian@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The URL is direct to gog tho? Unless you mean you didn't recognize gog as a reputable website

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

In fairness there is also this link which is doing the rounds too https://freedomtobuy.games/

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

If I can buy a game on Gog I do - their lack of DRM, Linux ports, and prices just make me happy.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not really interested in these games but this is pretty freaking awesome.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Postal 2 is actually a really good shitpost of a game. It looks like shit, it is unironically edgy and full of 14 year old levels of sexist, toilet humor. But god damn is it actually a good game. Like, a truly solid immersive sim shooter. And one of the only FPS games I know of that has guns and killing where you don't have to actually get involved and can beat the whole game as a casual observer of the chaos.

Plus you can piss on cops and make cops eat doughnuts filled with dogshit. 11/10.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 11 points 2 days ago

Actually I already own that one but I wanted my post to be brief.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Let’s me live the white male fantasy of golden showers with the boys

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Paradise Lost DLC is really good too, came out 2015.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Fuck yeah! free porn. And Postal 2 lol.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] tekeous@usenet.lol 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, it ain't gonna do itself.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice gesture, but keep in mind that this is the same GOG that was poised to release Devotion by RedCandleGames, only to renege on it because CCP imbeciles told them to. They are brave against censorship except when it involves actual conflict with censors. As soon as that happens, it's bootlick city.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And doing this with just 13 games? F95 catalogues 13 games... a day. I feel like GOG needs to up their game here.

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[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

don't sleep on Hunie Pop, it's actually pretty fun.

[–] Valorie12@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Hunie Pop is a great game, despite being a Bejeweled clone. The mechanics make the "puzzles" a lot more fun (not just the tiddies)

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[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Treasure of Nadia is legit a good game

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hunie Pop has a surprising amount of strategy involved.

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

HuniePop is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Out spawned so many clones because it was legitimately well made.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If it doesn't work from Germany use a VPN

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nice, but too many tiddies and not enough dicks.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

🎢too many tiddies🎢
(there's too many tiddies)
🎢Too many tiddies on the dance floor🎢

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gonna check them out for a friend

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[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I can't get past the captcha. Tried like 10 times

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah what's up with those lately? I've noticed them taking longer and longer to solve as well as being more difficult.

[–] Uranhjort@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's ReCaptcha owned by Google, if you're using a non-Chrome browser or an ad blocker it punishes you with tedium. Probably illegal to sabotage your competition but when did that ever stop them.

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Supposedly they are more likely to give you captchas if there is high traffic, like every week when people try to claim their prime free games at the same time. If I get a captcha I just close out and try again later because you never know how many you are going to get.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Legit took me 20 minutes to just get this;

  • click redeem -> 5 captchas
  • click login, reset password -> 5 captchas
  • click reset password link -> 5 captchas
  • login -> 5 captchas
  • click redeem -> 5 captchas

Lmao and people say AI could ruin the web more

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Their servers are just completely overloaded

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[–] el_hache@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe you're in a country where one of more games are restricted, this solved it for me

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/freedom_to_buy_games_bundle_workaround_for_australians_and_germans

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[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For anyone having issues with the site, the giveaway code is freedomtobuygames which you might have better luck redeeming via Galaxy.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That's nice, but I'm not going to do so, because I'd rather support the developers of pornographic games financially. They already deal with enough flak without needing to give up sales revenue over this.

It also sounds like at least some of the stores are aiming to make the games available later with different payment processors, so I expect that they're likely to come back.

[–] brian@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know the logistics behind some of these giveaways, but it doesn't have to mean that the devs are giving up their revenue. It could be gog just fronting the "cost", no?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Could be. They don't say so on the page, though.

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Most are older games with sequels or newer games by the developer. So they are probably hoping you like them and buy the sequel.

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[–] thisisdee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Strange. I’m getting invalid code error

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Awesome but I'm not really into those games. I might try one or two just to support the cause.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

suddenly buying all this weird interactive porn that I didn't realize i wanted

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Thank you kind stranger. I vehemently oppose censorship, especially by uninvolved 3rd parties, so this is precicely what I needed with all of this. Good list of games too.

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