The backlash continues after a large swath of sexually explicit games were removed from Steam and Itch–along with games that feature LGBTQ content and themes.

Link to giveaway: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    Can’t they just do a game give away, like a general one? Im not into NSFW games, but if you make it clear thats what the give away is about it will still get the same message across. We support NSFW games being available (at least I do). I just dont want to play them.

    Edit: Okay, ya’ll can stop replying now. I get it, you dont like my opinion.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      Working retail and food service taught me even if you literally give something away for free, people will still find a reason to complain. “Free hamburgers today” But I don’t like hamburgers. “Today only, get a free 6 months to Spotify if you sign up for something else” But I don’t use Spotify.

      Just, okay? Like fine it’s not for you, it doesn’t matter, it’s free.

    • Kataelyna@lemmy.world
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      They do general giveaways all the time, this one is specific to a cause and is therefore flavored as such. There’s a discord bot I use to track giveaways from GOG, Epic, and Steam, there is always a giveaway happening at pretty much any given moment from at least one of them. You could look into that or similar if you just want free games.

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      I think part of this is, if later there are takedowns of these games, many people will experience them being removed from their ownership.

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        10 hours ago

        in most cases delisting would prevent games from being purchased, not from being downloaded if you already have them.

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        on GoG you could download the installer and install without the need of GoG. No takedown possible, thats the point of GoG.

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          20 hours ago

          I mean yeah if you do that, but since it’s free and most people redeeming this giveaway aren’t actually interested in playing all of the games, they won’t have them downloaded.

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      That completely misses the point of this giveaway. Even ignoring that, these games are being donated by the devs. I’m not sure why a studio not affected by this at all would donate their game fighting this (I know a few might on principal but still)

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      1 day ago

      That’s a good idea. Let’s give obese people sandwiches to raise awareness for starving kids, too.