For me the worst thing about that wasn't that GOG caved in and bowed to Chinese pressure. It was the way how they treated their customers when telling us of that cancellation. The pathetic 'many messages from gamers' lie. It implies that GOG thinks us so stupid that we'll swallow any lie. GOG, the company that used to be famous for open communication, has turned into a bunch of lying cowards who don't even dare to admit the real reason for that cancellation. Or to apologize for the lie.

But the Devotion thing is not my personal reason to boycott. It's the DRM thing. The change in policy, that they are now OK with DRM on the single-player part of games, "as long as they don't affect it in a major way". They even put DRM on the DLC of their own flagship game. That sends a clear message, that they don't want to stay DRM-free.

And even if one were to accept the transition of GOG from DRM-free store to DRM-agnostic store, they still do it in the most anti-customer way possible: by hiding the fact that there is DRM on a game. It would be better, if they would just put clear labels on the games, for example "Fully DRM-free", "Multiplayer-DRM" and "Other DRM", and allow filtering by DRM. But they don't. They pretend that all their single-player games are not DRM-ed and leave it to the customer to find out, after buying, in which cases that was another lie.

I haven't bought anything since the Christmas Secret Santa thing. I made an exception for that. Normally, I would have bought some items from my wish-list at each sale. I usually did. So my wish-list is basically a list of the games that I would buy sooner or later, if GOG would return to being DRM-free.