Seriously, I've never seen so many sticks up so many asses in my life. This whole thing is like EA winning "Worst Company" all over again. If I was a Bethesda rep who was sent over to scout GOG as a potential distributor for older games, I'd tell them not to touch this place with a 50 km pole. Grow up and take the loss, or swarm Bethesda with requests to talk to GOG. Don't just rant and rage about the loss of a beloved game. Not only is it pointless, but it's also entirely counter-productive.

So are threads like this. :D

Blah blah OH THE HUMANITY!!!! Blah!

The forums on sites like Steam are no better and besides what publisher would use the forums to decide if they are going to distribute their games there or not. Plus if people want them back like they do they would see money opportunities more than anything else being a business and all.

For what it's worth,

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/rather_than_boycotting_bethesda_maybe_let_them_know_you_want_gog_to_keep_the_fallouts

GOG-Community was pretty much the best "bigger-sized" community I´ve ever seen on the web.
Sadly, as you are describing here, this isn´t the current state anymore.

The reason is very simple---community has grown bigger (as the whole site grown bigger) and is less controlled by a forum-elite anymore!
Senceless downrepping and spamming has become more often---but it´s still not terrible, nothing comparable to most sites community!

But of course---the issue exists and there has something be done to fix it.
But what---I ceartainly don´t know!

Unfortunately, a lot of the people complaining are GOG veterans who have been here much longer than I have. It's not that the community has grown and changed. It's that the people who made the place so great to begin with now seem to be losing their minds and going into a rabid frenzy with no thought of how they can actually help the situation. It's sad.

And I know I'm getting downrepped to hell right now, but why should I honestly care what people think about me if they're just going to act like the children over at steam.

The petition thread that was posted is an actual sensible method of approaching the situation. It's too bad people's tendencies are to rage first and think later.

Edit: except tinyE, who has no tendency other than to be his cheerful, humorously enlightening self.

on the other hand nah, I don't want any part on this

I already sent Zenimax and Bethisda an email each about how many fantastic older titles they have in their catalogues, and how happy I and many, many others would be to see their titles released on sites such as Desura, GamersGate, Shiny Loot and GOG in DRM free versons.
That was about a month back, and was met with the usual wall of silence from large companies.

I am not going to sit about whining as that will gain me nothing, but I do feel entitled to think their business model of not even releasing a game from its DRM after a few years of sales is open to ridicule. Worse still the idea of bulking on DRM to games that already came DRM-free.
I feel current DRM methods are countermount to locking up people for obaying the law, whilst freeing all those who break it. I really feel we would be better off if they went back to CD keys over all this GfWL, Tages, SecureRom et el.

Flood the Fallout forum in ONE thread and keep it civil. Make them aware that you are happy with the GOG distributing the old titles.

A day without drama is like a day without sunshine.

As these times have approached us like a stray firework in New Year´s day, I think it´s in the interest of all, and I may speak for all of us...........that WE CALL FORTH MORDECAI TOTH.............. for shall not be any soul that retaliates the great hammer of GOG Chapter....

You are wrong I think. Bethesda is very well placed to know that a few rants on a forum doesn't make a trend, their forum is a good example of that. If they chose not to come on gog you can be sure there is a good financial reason behind it, they are a big company now which went more and more mainstream this past years, they target the largest market share possible. A company this size and this succesful make models and take decisions accordingly.
I don't say they are right not going drm free though.

However, I'm sure they didn't appreciate the free fallouts if they heard of it.

BTW I went to an American private school and the public schools have NOTHING, I REPEAT NOTHING, on the amount of bitching and moaning that private school kids do. There was a guy five years ahead of me got a Porsche on his birthday and complained it was the wrong color, no shit.

complaining about people complaining.two levels,we need to go deeper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jUhnCU9iA