Whereas you, in all your wisdom, decided to start this "Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell?" thread to preach high morals to the allegedly delusional people that start dramas. How's that working out for you so far?

Some may care about the game in particular, some may not. No need to deal in absolutes and generalize if you expect people to take you seriously.

You'll find most people here don't care much about what happens on Steam, because they have little to no expectations of Steam.

They do care about GOG policies and behavior. Had it been any other game, the outrage would have been on the same level.

Dumbest argument ever. It's like saying "No one must criticise Ireland's decision to ban Aldous Huxley's Brave New World because you once owned a fridge whose light bulb was made in Ireland." You're basically arguing "No must must criticise one issue about a country unless they hate everything about that country". That many people are criticising the Chinese Governments fetish for censorship OUTSIDE of China without 'hating on' Chinese people isn't "hypocrisy", it's a sign of maturity. And if people did start "hating on everything Chinese", the same people complaining about hypocrisy for not doing so, would then turn around and call them 'racist haters' for doing so (which is hypocrisy in itself)...

Besides which, Ancient-Red-Dragon nailed it. The issue isn't "China banned something in China". It's "one single politician in one country wants x product banned everywhere on the planet solely out of personal ego like some 15th Century Emperor". Whether you "like" the game as an individual game or not, it's an extremely bad precedent to set.

Edit: It's also pretty shocking at the cluelessness here of where products are made. Eg, my PC's motherboard comes from Taiwan, my GPU is an American firm (nVidia) using a Korean (Samsung) fabrication lab, only 1 out of 15 Intel fabrication plants is in China, etc. Talk about being educated by the uneducated...

You might not want it to get political but you can't forget that the banning itself is a political thing. Your stance is like that with many GOG users they want Curation which means they only want certain games they deem quality but if anybody wants any other game you deem not good enough its ok to ban them or discard them regardless of there being something called freedom of choice, If you are against banning games in general you'd have to be for free choice of what a person wants to play and negate the idea of what you think is a quality game.

Some of the artsy garbage here is deemed quality while in a true perspective and some are even barely what could be considered games. Yet they get a free pass because they SJW element on GOG praise that type of garbage but if it's anything critical of social norms they still deem it needs to be banned or never get a release.

People here need to stop being so hypocritical. Either you're against all forms of censorship or else you'd be just as oppressive as the CCP that GOG is kowtowing to right now. But there is also the factor that its not just GOG doing it but multiple factors in society kowtow to China but we ignore that for the sake of our comfy lives. If people weren't so SJW they would actually see the dangers of suppressing free speech or expression but they never cared when it didn't affect them. I remember the days when we warning for censorship were called paranoid while now games are censored left and right for the new Social Justice norm so most Gamers asked for this shit themselves or else it would have been stopped years ago.

The same goes for when Gamers are crying about Cyberpunk 2077 while most games these days are a barren wasteland devoided of content let alone a story worth admiring and the only country that still creates for simply entertainment value is constantly under attack by puritan nutjobs. They are just as worse as the CCP 50-cent army.

I did and I even played it - it was one of favorite games I played this year. I wasn't aware about drama on Steam when it was happening (otherwise I would have thrown a tantrum then too). At some point I was even thinking of writing the devs and pointing them to GOG's direction, because I naively thought GOG would be better.

I wanted you to know that is not the case with everyone that took an issue with it. First, I am not US American and I already said elsewhere I can't understand how you allowed what just happened in your elections take place. I did not cheer when the election winner was announced because unlike many US Americans I was actually paying attention to what the guy was saying, it will be terrible for us Latin Americans. I also hate censorship of ideas, cancel culture and all.

That being said, here is the thing: GOG lack of transparency and bending the knees to this low kind of censorship makes me utterly disgusted. I have always been a loyal GOG customer and promoter, how can I be loyal to a company that takes this kind of stance on things and can't even be transparent about it?

Eh, go press F to yourself. I've stopped buying games from Steam years ago because of their behaviour. The Devotion thing with them was just the icing on the cake.

There's more at stake than the game here fool, and maybe some of us don't care about what happens on Steam because we already don't support Gaben? Ever think about that?

Nah, you just want to make broad, vapid generalizations and act like a smug ass.

I never hesrd of it, and I still dont care lol. I find the whole thing amusing tbough. The game looks like garbage either way, All thr people getting upset, better throw away everything in thier house that is linked to China haha. Infact most all of you need to get off this fourm becauses chances are extremely high what your using to access it was made in China. You support the Chinese president way more than Gog does by not releasing some dumb game no one would buy.

Speak for yourself. I loved Detention so I looked up Devotion. Great creepy art style. I couldn't wait to play. Still haven't stopped wanting it. Except- uh oh. It's been de-platformed everywhere cause of an Easter Egg that pissed off a politician?

You are totally right, I should have given up my current life and migrated to America, just so that I could have voted for Trump; otherwise I have no right to bad mouth china. I should also see a doctor to get my involuntary cheering for biden looked at, it might be connected to the same thing that makes me indifferent to censors and ""localizers"" despite my hatered of them.

If it was ported natively to Linux I'd have started caring in a snap

I always find it funny. I bet that 99% of internet freedom fighters, screams with some Huawei or other chinese crap in their pocket.
When people realize, that majority of power money in china is from export?
If everybody STOP buying everything "made in china". The problem will be solved very quickly.

Their previous game was.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/555220/Detention/

He's from Poland so they already do. ;-)