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GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" (www.gamespot.com)

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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

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Neat, I have no shame in admitting I picked it up, I've never played any of these - but if someone tells me I can't try something (or tries to block access because of prudish reasons) I want to immediately see what the fuss is about.

So, anyone recommend one of these to start with? How would you recommend I try to run these on Linux? (It's also my first experience with GoG, but seems neat!)

[–] Evrala@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Go with Heroic Games launcher. It works pretty simply without fuss for gog games in my experience.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks!

[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hunie Pop is a fantastic game.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

375+ hours played. less than 1% of that time jerking off.

[–] leMe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

from what i have seen, many of the games are done in renpy. usually these ship something like run.py - should be easy enough, if you have python installed.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Best way to run them on Linux I think would be heroic launcher

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

[–] Luouth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Collective Shite can fuck right off with their veiled attempt at mass internet censorship.

[+] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world -37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

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 33 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Fermiverse@gehirneimer.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Kataelyna@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 12 points 1 week ago

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)

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

they've given away so many games, where were you

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm in the same boat as you. Except for house party. I will be playing house party.