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They released a few statements about being upset about people sending demanding/rude messages to them. They also complained about the cost of hosting (there are no ads on the page). Originally, they wanted to only open for people who are donating, but they appear to have backtracked on that, at least for now.
It's a common issue on the Internet. The moment you're doing anything, especially for free, you are basically inviting vitriol.
A thing that always felt so weird to me is that there are so many other websites and services that work basically the same yet the people that run them don't have such a shitty attitude about it. I've been in that position myself and you need to just ignore the idiots, they'll always be there no matter what. I've always felt that the people behind gog-games need to get their heads out of their asses, if you look anywhere they communicate with people (which is VERY little) it's just complaints, defensive and offensive statements.
Please note that this in no way means I don't appreciate the heck out of their work, I do and I have donated to them.
But I really think they're just doing themselves a disservice by treating basically everyone like shit. I've seen this exact behaviour in other places and it never ends good, and it was always their own damn fault by being unable to ignore and filter out the crap. Everyone else handles it and doesn't act like dicks about it.
So like, it's really easy to armchair and just say that they should ignore the haters and so on, but having been on the opposite end of a small Internet hate mob, even if you only have like a dozen people telling you that you're a crook, or a piece of shit, or your stupid or dishonest, or whatever, it doesn't really matter how accurate any of that is, it really does start to get to you, no matter who you are.
The only healthy option is to log out at that point.
Near (the creator of BSNES / Higan, as well as a fan-translator who worked on Mother 3 and Bahamut Lagoon) was driven to suicide. It's a serious issue. And I suspect the sort of people who work on labors of love are often the most susceptible because they're the sort of people who want to listen and who care if people say something is wrong with their work.