Sad that the company was able to declare bankruptcy, rather than the directors being held criminally liable.
But it isn't a merger, it's a partial transfer. Your GOG account will still exist, but your CDPR games will be moved from GOG to CDPR.
Exactly what this means is unclear, the email and their online FAQ merely says "online features including Cross Progression and My Rewards as well as CDPR Forums" - it does not list everything that's being migrated. It could be that GOG will only sell old games, while new games will be on a separate store, or it could be just that achievements and cross-platform scores will be on CDPR while GOG continues as normal. It could also end up being a gradual change with GOG falling to the wayside, and new games (1st and 3rd party) only being sold on CDPR.
Also, GDPR is hardly a reason. GOG is a CDPR subsidiary, and both are based in Poland, which is in the EU. They're in the same jurisdiction. There's no real issue with GDPR, even if the two services were sharing data - GDPR allows this for the purpose of providing a service.
I've sent a support ticket to them asking for more information.
Exactly, this should be on /c/nottheonion@lemmy.world, or one of the other Not The Onions.
The API that FDroid is using has only just come out. Before then, without using root and scripts to enable higher privileges, no app could auto-update in the background.
FDroid has long has the ability to automatically download updates, however installation always required a confirmation from the user for each app.
Possibly. However, that still doesn't really fit in with the way CDPR have worked up to now.
Since Cyberpunk 2077 their behaviour has changed.
Quite possibly. Edit: I'm also having difficulty shopping for any new games in GOG Galaxy, however they are still available on gog.com.
Their games might end up on both, but when it comes to a new 3rd party game being put on CDPR store with DRM or GOG store without DRM, which do you think will happen? Long term, do you think GOG would survive if CDPR shift their focus to another store?
It's not really the same as Rockstar Launcher and Steam, because Rockstar don't own Steam.
Are you saying that Iran supplies drugs to Israel in order to destabilise the Israeli population?
It’s funny, but it’s a little concerning how much people lean so hard into the slavery aspect of this game.
It's funny, but a little concerning how much people lean so hard into the slavery aspect of eating meat. /s
Like, I get your point, but this is also about a different species - in the same way that people farm animals for meat and other products, people used to (and still do) farm other people for the fruits of their labour. This is also a video game, it's all pretend. You could argue the villagers in Age of Empires are slaves. You could extend that to just about any player controlled character.
Again, you do have a point, and there is a reasonable worry that people could take this experience and be radicalised alongside it. You could also argue that video games cause violence - however, the real argument is against people being radicalised, and that process itself is what is wrong. The parallel experiences themselves are not wrong, they're just potentially exploited in that radicalisation process.
The story is true though, it's not satire.