I'm looking for a simple checkbox that disables the display of adult content in newsletters and in the GOG store, and I cannot find one.

I've searched Google and this forum, to no avail.

I don't want a cryptic filter that only applies on certain web pages, using a custom "tag" system.

I need a up-front, easy, basic opt-in/out feature that hides the stuff that is unsuitable for viewing at home and at work (yes at work, not to play, but to share news and game genre information with other developers).

I don't need to be told I'm prude.

If you want the stuff, fine, just don't force it into the newsletter and store pages.

If I want to see it, I should need to opt-in. Give me the option.

Why is GOG apparently ignoring all other requests for such a simple and family friendly filter? Money?! How hard is it to implement a feature.

I've reached out to the support team, but they've given me non-answers so far and it feels like they're laughing at me and not taking me seriously.

I've been a solid GOG supporter for many years, but this issue is getting out of hand.

Are there any public campaigns or petitions that can be signed to force GOG to finally take action, either in the UK or Europe or globally?

Something like the "Stop Killing Games" but more like "Stop Forcing Adult Content Upon Users That Haven't Given Permission To See It"?

As you can hopefully tell, I'm getting very frustrated at this issue.

So... where exactly can you view it? In a park?

Seriously though, all you can do is keep asking. And all it will result in is rehashing the same argument, with people getting offended, and people getting offended that people got offended, and people being offended that some people aren't offended, or that they are offended by the wrong thing... and so on.

The additional problem is that while a lot of people want something done, everyone seems to want a different thing. You want a "basic opt-in/out feature", but I want to be hide all games of my choice, not just "adult content", nor am I sure what would fall under the definition of "adult content". I want to hide the porn I have no interest in, but not every game with some kind of sexual content, like Larry or Witcher.

So just like the new laws coming into effect then. Enjoy!

You can browser the store using tags to exclude games that are tagged NSFW.


https://www.gog.com/en/games?excludeTags=nsfw

Only a popular and frequent suggestion, that's all. That and along with the ability to minimize posts from users would be a boon to this website.
And instead of using GOG's search, you can use GameSeive, it's better than their own website! https://gamesieve.com/ It actually has permanence to it's selected tag filters, so you don't have to waste a bookmark on it.

Hate to break this to ya, but GoG is woefully underdeveloped as a platform in virtually every regard. It lags behind its closest competitors by a solid light-year. They managed to implement some sort of janky 2FA/MFA solution so recently, that its announcement alone is embarrassing. Like finally installing locks on your doors after you've been living in the house for ten years. They have features in prod that are conceptually in beta i.e. Recent tab with the card shuffling "randomized" nonsense. The list goes on, but you get the point. Almost everyone has some gripes about this platform from a technical perspective.

GoG doesn't stand on tech, they stand and succeed on concept. If they tried to emulate Steam or Epic any closer, they'd probably fail because the single dev they employ would probably quit.

So, when you ask for a feature that would likely involve some development time on the backend, I think you should know that they are not laughing at you. They may have just added it to a backlog. You may see results in a decade's time... if you're lucky.

Sometimes it's really not "technical" stuff though. It's been well known and often remarked upon for years now that tags, the one way of filtering games when browsing the store we do have, are often utter nonsense, like Tomb Raider games being tagged as 2D. Fixing that is not a technical issue, and it's been so long that a single unpaid intern could have by now gone through the whole catalogue fixing it manually working an hour day.

@OP - What exactly are you seeing, that is so offensive?

I'm not interested in the smut stuff here or in emails, but I barely see it, just a quick glance in passing, not enough to really take in anything. I see enough to know what it likely is and I'm not interested, so I check no further. I certainly don't see any pornographic detail, at most something a bit suggestive or titillating ... no worse than seeing stuff at the beach it seems to me.

Note, I am talking adverts, not the game pages themselves, which clearly you wouldn't click on to visit.

Proper filters would be good, but it seems to me that there could be problems drawing a line. Sure some stuff would be easy to decide upon, but a lot wouldn't. And do GOG really need to waste their precious time making sure what is or isn't.

You can create your own filters, for email and web pages, and be in control yourself.

P.S. Funny how I never see anyone complaining about the violence on display for some games here. Apparently sex is far worse than violence.

Last person to do that got bludgeoned to death and skullfugged by a puritan from the USA.

Let's say it. Suppose "nsfw" tag is coherently nd extensively applied so it works as it should (I don't actually know if it's true). Then Yours is the practical, helpful answer. The rest is more of a quarrel of morals We normalised violence further in stories, which is absurd. In a non warlike setting, we have more sex than bloody fights, in general..