Steam had also already removed that same game. But they are powerful enough to make the developers take responsability for it: "Due to technical issues that cause unexpected crashes and among other reasons, we are pulling Devotion off from steam store to have another complete QA check". It seems to be a everending recurring technical issues. It worked, because many people in defense of Steam claim the game was pulled by the developers.

l8r!

I'm afraid they are not interested in this (imho valid) point.

I'm interested. I made the same point in at least one earlier topic but of course was drowned out by the popular consensus, most of which has consisted of "my tyrant is more virtuous than yours" signaling. Anyway, it's concerning that people can connect the dots on one, but refuse to do so on the other. That is, people seem capable of recognizing GOG, in theory, can be lying/omitting the real story with that game being removed. Yet, when it comes to the game going off Scheme, people take Scheme/the developer at their word. Why? If you go from the premise that companies can lie, and you suspect company A of lying, why can't companies B and C also be lying?

Maybe because it *was* pulled by the developers...?

If you think Gaben of all people demanded they take down the game, you're delusional. They pulled the game themselves for damage control.

As for the game not being back on Steam, I'd assume that this is likely because their Mainland Chinese publisher (RIP) had some sort of exclusive deal for the Steam release. With the publisher having lost its business license, who knows what kind of a legal mess the Steam release is caught up in.

That is really great news!

I am not sure GOG can do much about it, its always the publisher choice. All GOG could do is remove it from the store.

It is still a shame that Devotion is not released here. But since Steam pulled the same move (for officially diffrent reasons) I fear this game won't come back anytime soon, and if it does only in a censored version (but I dont see the devs doing that).

But what do you say ... To play online you need an internet connection = drm

And to play online you need a platform where you can find players in most cases.

But everything offline does not have drm except gwent (here I am very critical, I find it unfortunate).

In the end, everyone will end up buying on steam, with drm, with rentals.

Thank you very much.

I thought I'd keep a record of games I would definitely have bought, were it not for the boycott.

GAMES NOT BOUGHT IN 2021
(1) 18/1/21: Dread Nautical - $10
(2) 18/1/21: Operencia: The Stolen Sun - $15
(3) 29/1/21: Way of the Samurai 3 Deluxe - $2.5
(4) 29/1/21: Way of the Samurai 4 + DLC - $3.5
(5) 10/2/21: Drakensang - $3
(6) 10/2/21: Commander Keen Complete Pack - $1.5
(7) 10/2/21: XCOM 2 - $4.5

Total so far: $40 (rounded down)

Yeah exactly :D I don't care for the texture and I don't care for the political outcry it got in china. But as far as I understand this stupid texture is the reason you can not buy the game anywhere at this point of time.

Huh, same as Hexen: interesting release, very tempting price point. Too bad they haven't released Devotion yet.

What a shame...

But not because the devs didn't want to remove it, only because they ever dared to include it. It's already been removed ages ago. So the version that was to be released on GOG would have been "censored" (which is a silly word in this context, but whatever). And yet it wasn't enough.

Well, normally I would have bought Commander Keen on release - and, at the current price, several copies of The Witcher 3, for later giveaways. But alas, those times are over as long as DRM persists on GOG.

Maybe censored isn't the right word in that case than but still you got my point. I did not know it has been removed and still got the outrage (which makes the outrage even more ridiculous).

no, as this is all about saving face. the insult had alreasy been done, and removing the insulting image do not change this. The abolut minimum would be for the developer to publicly appologise for the insult (which they in truth kind of did, but needed more groveling and appologies). Indievent (the original publisher) even lost their buisness license for this, which basically means that PRC shut them down.

And off course it does not help that they developers are Taiwaneese, and the friction already existing between Taiwan and China, and with the vice prime minister of Taiwan spoke up in its defense, it means that it is now not only personal insult issue, but it has become a very political one as well.

Commander Keen * was definitely going to be in my cart right now. Too bad Gog is still burying their heads in the sand.

Edit: *(and probably a lot more titles)
Well you should look at this boycott for its bright side: Now that I'm not buying, I'm not annoyed that we who bought The Witcher 3 before the GOTY edition once again got lower discounts for the Season Pass.