As TheGamer’s Andrew King put itearlier this year, “GOG Dreamlist is a good solution a problem that shouldn’t exist.” The program is designed to help fans of older games voice their support in hopes that the company will find a way to bring them back. Most of these games are either strapped to now-archaic consoles, or they’ve been outright delisted, thus making purchase impossible.
GOG relies upon the sincerity of its community of passionate players; the hope is that people won’t break the bounds of decency to inflate the vote counts in their favour. For the most part, things pan out as planned. And yet, occasionally, folks misbehave. That’s precisely what happened this past month with fans of a certainJRPGfrom Sony’s very first PlayStation:Digimon World.
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On July 30, GOG posted a shocking twist to the abrupt fervor surrounding calls for the original Digimon World to be preserved. 52,000 people had allegedly voted for Digimon World throughout the first three weeks of the month. Only, roughly 26,000 of them - which is to say, half - had been cast via fake accounts.
“To preserve the integrity of the GOG Dreamlist and to keep this support fair and relevant, we’ve removed those votes,” the post proclaims. Now, there’s something to be said for theother26,000 votes being authentic. That’s an impressive number to behold in not even a month, and it goes to show just how committed we Digimon fans can be.
But there’s a difference between “committed” and “committed to forgery”. If you’re reading this, and you happen to be responsible for this underhanded action, I must ask: how do you think your partner Digimon would feel? Then again,one of the replies to GOG’s postexpresses hope that it was the Digimon themselves whose votes make up the fraudulent accounts. I like it.
Back in March, GOG sent out a survey gauging interest in a potential subscription service.It didn’t go over well.
