Also many young people are so used to games requiring online connection and being shut down, that they can’t imagine a better way.

There’s Epic or you can buy directly from the publishers store front (e.g. EA), but GoG is the only one not forcing you to use a shitty launcher. ignore that, i missed the “not American” requirement in your post.

unfortunately not all of us. few weeks ago 20% voted for our nazi-party and another 30% voted a party who’s leader is willing to cooperate with the nazi-party.

Boycotts by individuals are legal.

For now…

Not that weird, since we’ve had similar things happen in Europe in the 1930s. I’m mostly wondering, what’s going to be Canada’s Stalingrad.

We allowed nazis take power once, we must not make the same mistake again.

In case you missed it, they are in power already, just not in Germany (yet).

As long as you keep a pc with the specs and OS of the time the game was released. GOG is also making an effort to patch these games to make them run on current hard- and software without the hassle of finding and downloading fan patches, running emulators/virtual machines and all the other hoops one might have to jump through to get an old game running.

Of course you could theoretically pirate the gog version after they made it run, but given that these games usually cost about 5-10 bucks and some go as low as 1-2 when on sale, i think that’s worth it to support these efforts.