Timboli: Another way to look at this, is that GOG are selling games into China, and that has to be a good thing ... outside of the financial gain. Those games can't all be checked by China, and much of their content will have lasting effect on players there. Positive things will come out of it, perhaps eventually the changes we all want.

Timboli: So you are still going to do it ........ honestly, I gotta shake my head at the ridiculous drama of it all.

In the end, the only loser will be you.
You are not going to effect anything other than yourself, with your false sense of GOG doing wrong.

If you ever find a better place, come back and let us know.

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I'll say it one more time.

GOG don't owe the developers of Devotion a single thing, just like all the others they turn away for whatever reason.
It's not up to GOG to be the poster boy against China, and they likely have sound financial reasons and agreements not to consider doing so, just for any old developer, who whether rightly or wrongly, is responsible for the situation with China.

Sure GOG have been the hero for DRM-Free and certain other game related aspects, but that doesn't mean they have do everything that crops up. At the end of the day, it is the store and customers that matter, not some Developer, many of whom haven't done exactly right by GOG and its customers over the years.

So stop expecting too much. Stop holding GOG to account, for what proved to be a silly thing by the developers. They even removed the offending stuff, which in my book is even more ridiculous, and doesn't earn my respect. They poked the bear ... what were they thinking in the first place, but once done live with it ... don't pretend it never happened ... only makes you look foolish for not considering things properly in the first place. And some wanted GOG to carry that torch ... get real.

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Another way to look at this, is that GOG are selling games into China, and that has to be a good thing ... outside of the financial gain. Those games can't all be checked by China, and much of their content will have lasting effect on players there. Positive things will come out of it, perhaps eventually the changes we all want.

Why should GOG jeopardize what is overall more important.

Like I've said elsewhere, sometimes you have to join with them (to a point) or embrace them to some degree to make change, and it doesn't happen overnight.

Chielus86:

Enebias: They bent to "capital". Chinese money is money, they calculated that the losses from that market would far surpass the gains from Devotion's sales and they cut it out, like every single other corporation in the world would have.

samuraigaiden: No problem, dude. I just hope you also don't buy anything on Steam, Epic, Uplay, Origin, Battle.net, PlayStation, Xbox, etc. That would incredibly hypocritical on your part.

Newsflash: whatever problem you have with China and it's influence over the rest of the world, videogame companies can't do anything about it. In the grand scheme of things, videogame companies are as influential to world politics as a chain of grocery stores.

Timboli: GOG don't owe the developers of Devotion a single thing, just like all the others they turn away for whatever reason.
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At the end of the day, it is the store and customers that matter, not some Developer, many of whom haven't done exactly right by GOG and its customers over the years.

sanscript: "I want to leave and announce it LOUDLY to add points to my ego, but still stand here to make a discussion, in which I'm staying to be a part of further., and will probably not leave anyway".

Chielus86: Just as with previous post. I stopped after a sentence.

Enjoy the high horse though, should be a fun ride.

Slick_JMista: All the storefronts have been compromised by the CCP. GoG is the least offensive of the bunch.

Chielus86: Just as with previous post. I stopped after a sentence.

Enjoy the high horse though, should be a fun ride.

GreasyDogMeat: If GOG is the 'least offensive' then quit them all.

Slick_JMista: it isnt just limited to storefronts, but movies and television. Are you going to stop watching them as well?

GreasyDogMeat: Yes. Are your beliefs and values so easily discarded?

I think the last movie I watched was Interstellar, and the last show I watched was first season of Better Call Saul Season 1.

Slick_JMista: good for you, then.