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Not really related, or maybe it is, but I read that link as "CD Projekt Red Escorts News".
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Gersen: So it's easy to understand that, given the circumstances, Gog didn't want to attract any negative attention over there, they probably naively thought that everybody forgot about Devotion and were scared when they discovered it wasn't the case.
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GamezRanker: Big question: If GOG didn't want to attract unwanted attention, why did they post to chinese social media about the devotion release?
You have the answer in the question (emphasis on the naively) :
...they probably naively thought that everybody forgot about Devotion...
You the same Dycaite from the Lost Media wiki?
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Lesser Blight Elemental: You the same Dycaite from the Lost Media wiki?
Yup, howdy
Post edited December 29, 2020 by dycaite
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Magnitus: I don't expect companies to behave democratically via their user-base.
You mean like listening to "many messages from gamers"? ;)
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dycaite: This is one thread focused on YouTubers being mad,
Ok so I add these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wgLOQWCB6U with ~300K views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlck33_q30 with ~350K views

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Ancient-Red-Dragon: They may not raise a huge fuss about it here on the GOG forums (where it seems GOG apologists are now starting to out-number honest gamers who call GOG out on their diabolical crap, hence the mass down-rating of anyone who speaks honestly about this matter), but that silent majority do vote with their wallets, and GOG is financially suffering for that as a consequence, and will continue to do so until if & when they ever decide to "man up" and make things right in regards to this debacle.
Part of that 'silent majority' has been silenced by forum censorship. (They deleted many threads and posts. And supposedly also banned users though I dont know if that is true.)
And about the downvoting: We dont know who is doing it - I wouldnt be so naive to assume its (only) the same people as the ones posting here.

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dycaite: Because they refuse to give us any response, any clarification whatsoever. Why do Chinese gamers deserve an immediate response, but when we point out the holes in their excuse, we get the silent treatment? Why is that OK to you?
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GamezRanker: Might just be coincidence, but I have noted a higher than average number of those who support GOG on this have been posters from Canada.
Also noticed that. Germans are also behaving in similar manner (but more in German forum) and its easily explained with mentality - just look up their history.
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Leroux: You mean like listening to "many messages from gamers"? ;)
Dubious, but maybe one of them made an extremely compelling argument. I don't think we'll ever know :P.
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Gersen: You have the answer in the question (emphasis on the naively) :

...they probably naively thought that everybody forgot about Devotion...
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Gersen:
Sorry, but: Does...not....compute
(as in I don't buy that reasoning)

If GOG is "smart" enough(as some claim) to do other things properly(such as some claim for this delisting decision), then they shouldn't be so dumb as to think posting to chinese social media about devotion coming to GOG was a good idea.
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Zrevnur: Also noticed that. Germans are also behaving in similar manner (but more in German forum) and its easily explained with mentality - just look up their history.
Well both countries are seemingly more ok(on average) with some censorship in games and other media in the past, so it comes off as no surprise that some(not all) from said countries would be ok with such.
Post edited December 29, 2020 by GamezRanker
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GamezRanker: If GOG is "smart" enough(as some claim) to do other things properly, then they shouldn't be so dumb as to think posting to chinese social media about devotion coming to GOG was a good idea.
Dude you have been on this forum since 2010, you should know by now that doing dumb things that end up blowing up in their face is sadly kind of Gog specialty.
Post edited December 30, 2020 by Gersen
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Gersen: Dude you have been on this forum since 2010, you should know by now that doing dumb things that end up blowing up in their face is sadly kind of Gog specialty.
GOG has also done some smart things as well(actual ones and according to other people's opinions)....so which is it: is GOG smart or dumb in general?

(also, a number of their bad decisions seem to have been things that didn't cause enough of an uproar in a good chunk of the userbase......so it would seem GOG is possibly smart enough to not upset the applecart in certain sections of the userbase too much)
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firstpastthepost: I’m not a fan of gog canning any games for anything beyond reasonable reasons, but that’s besides the point. I’m only pointing out that it’s naive to think that a YouTube video of the opinions of a few people that have no real influence outside a relatively tiny bubble would matter to anyone outside said bubble. Clearly you are part of the bubble, and that’s cool. To the vast majority of people outside the bubble it sounds like whining.
Tweets and videos get artists, speakers and musicians from their respective "bubbles" to Very Sincerely Apologize(tm), get fired, de- or blacklisted. Just because those people with "no real influence" who tweeted or recorded videos were displeased by things for reasons, reasonable or not. I mean, where have you been since 2014?

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TerriblePurpose: You're outraged because GOG decided to pull an obscure game by a small company because a group of gamers from China was upset? And this is somehow a big political issue? This outrage about bending to China's will is almost laughable. I guarantee every one of the outraged protesters have houses filled with products made in China, yet they're convinced they're somehow fighting the good fight against evil China by vilifying GOG for not selling a game.
So if it was a "renowned game" by a "big company", and the protesters didn't have a single product made in China in their houses, would you consider that they were fighting the "good fight"?

Germany is free to censor the depiction of the 3rd Reich in their games. If they were to impose that on a game made by, say, a Polish company, and keep it from being distributed to the rest of the world, would you be ok with that? Or if Australia objected to the blood in a game made by a New Zealand studio and prevented its worldwide distribution, would that be a "political issue" for you, big or otherwise? Heck, if [insert populous Christian country here] had made it impossible for the rest of the world to see Life of Brian, would you also have found protests "laughable"?

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Magnitus: The developers of Devotion made an error in judgement, took a cheap shot at China's leader (whether or not you agree with their actions, I find name-calling actual living people to be of bad taste) and antagonised an economic juggernaut which is now making its displeasure known.

Many many other countries have applied economic pressures to get their way, probably less successfully than China it seems. As long as they limit themselves to applying economic pressures and don't send legions of hackers, its all fair game.
That's quite the might-makes-right apologia, but I don't believe you grasp what you're essentially condoning. In the same way that you haven't seen Tibet in movies in a good long while, you'll begin sliding down a pretty damn slippery slope if companies begin kowtowing to China whenever some Easter egg in a foreign game upsets them.
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pearnon: Germany is free to censor the depiction of the 3rd Reich in their games.
You're not up to date.
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toxicTom: You're not up to date.
So said symbols are now allowed in games sold in german stores?
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God, stop whining about that game.
Post edited December 30, 2020 by MatchaKitsunebi
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MatchaKitsunebi: God, stop whining about that game.
Like you're doing now?

If you don't like it, there are extensions to filter threads by keyword/user/etc.

(also if people like yourself who dislike the threads simply don't post to them, they will slide off of page 1)