To many these days, money and convenience are(or seem to be) king...i've witnessed or read about multiple examples of people(including myself on a few rare occasions, admittedly) sometimes ignoring their own beliefs for one or both.

Essentially they are willing to ignore such things(at least in some cases) for the money they get as a result of ignoring such things.

Bingo...that is likely a good part of the reason for the devotion decision....they likely didn't want to lose out on the 2077 sales(or sales of any future cdpr games) in that country.

Or some will sometimes fail to take into account the context of someone's words/actions/etc, and just assume "every mention of X is bad, and every use of action Y is also bad".

Grey zone?

But yeah: GOG says "no mentions of politics in the forums", but has no trouble approving/selling various games(like the co-vid simulator and also the ri-ot-ing game last year) that capitalize of current events/politics.

Imo they'd have likely LOVED to have sold this game due to the amount of eyes on it, but they also likely didn't want to lose out on them chyna bux. If not for that, I am guessing the game would likely be sold here right now.

They probably could, I am guessing, but that'd take time/money away from 'important' things like galaxy development and the like.
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Nitpick: People aren't(as far as I can tell) saying ALL boycotts don't work, just that a good number don't work.
(usually due to not enough people being on board or enough shit being stirred on social media, the news, etc)

Now this is not to say that means THIS ONE will fail....just that the chances are not very likely.
(especially given GOG's track record with responding to such movements over the last few years)

Still, it is nice to see the pushback to the decision is still alive and well to some extent. :)

Grey zone, yes, on many levels.
Because:
- many of their actions are questionable at best
- they are actively pushing what's moral
- they openly lie into it's customers faces ("you can communicate with use through Z channels and we WILL get back to you", "our store is 100% DRM-free", etc)
- some of the clauses in their TOS are pushing the boundaries what's legal to do (for example the "we can ban you at our own discretion / we decide what's right or not" clause)
- let me say this yet another time - to make the store page of product Q live (and the game's product page WAS LIVE for few hours) you have to sign a contract first and if you back off from it you are OBLIGATED to provide REAL reason to the over side of the contract and you absolutely CANNOT lie PUBLICLY either - but apparently GOG thinks providing slippery slope PR BS statement with no reality backing whatsoever is "ok" and "legal"

Some people seem to be saying actually exactly that (that none work).

Some people live in self-fulfilling prophecies.

Nevermind.

Welp, Red Candle are selling their games on their own website now.

Anyone who buys the forbidden game should mention so in one of the dedicated threads that just popped up so GOG can see the sales they didn't make.

Count me in.

I'm already buying less than usual here due to a combination of facts.
And I will continue to reduce my purchases.

I just like to point out that anyone boycotting GOG, but buying on steam, is selling the cow to buy the milk.
If you oppose bowing to China, if you oppose DRM...and all the rest of it.. Then buying on steam makes you a hypocrite.

Nice. I wasn't really that interested in Devotion before this controversy. But I'm going to get it in the Red Candle store. Just to be on the safe side to get it before the Chinese government finds a way to make the store disappear again. They sell the game DRM-free, so no matter what the CCP does, you get to keep the game.

Thanks for the info and clarifying what you meant.
(I thought it was something to do with abandon-ware, and was confused what you meant)

As far as I saw(from reading and skimming off/on) the ones mainly doing such were trolls...i'd pay them no mind.

(most others saying similar were afaik just inferring/pointing out that the majority of modern boycotts don't work)

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You forgot to post the link here, in case people want to buy it :)

Here y'all go: Red Candle E-Shop

Well... you wouldn't be entirely wrong, after all pretty evidently GOG has abandoned us on the forum, getting any kind of blue interactions is extreme rarity.

Personally I am in pretty dire financial situation atm so this will have to wait for me for now (I cannot afford buying any games atm, I am going through quite an ordeal IRL atm).
I hope their hosting provider has appropriate DDoS protection...

So is this Devotion the best game ever then? It seems to be almost all the posts on here (bots, spammers excluding) are about it? Looks to me like any other point and click walking sim.

For me there are thousands of points on this store for which there needs to be a boycot (only just the other day supporting streaming for instance).

Yes, this is great news and I will definitely be buying a copy! I also hear (from the Zoom Platform Discord) that it should also be coming to their store soon.

Shame on you, GOG.

I don't see this way.
Steam is upfront on what it is.
GOG is chamelon that keep changing color and is leaving behind everything it represented.

A bit like happened with CP2077.

Well that link was more to everyone in the thread....sorry for not making that a tad more clear.

Also sorry to hear you're in bad financial/etc straits. I hope your situation improves soon enough.

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Well, it's not the be all end all of this boycott, but it is one of the things that likely got it going. Also it's a sort of win(however the size) against creative media being censored and some here likely want to support such things, so I posted the link.

As for walking sims: some of em are quite nice to explore/walk through. :)

Then this boycott may be for you.....the OP stated several reasons why they started it, but I am guessing people can join in for any number of reasons of their choosing.

(as for streaming and GOG: if streaming is going to come, i'd rather it be optional and like the one GOG is pushing than stuff like Stadia, and think some are worrying needlessly on that one issue....but others are of course free to believe as they will)

Decided to support the devs and bought the complete bundle from their website. It’s unlikely that GOG are gonna get their head out of their ass in the foreseeable future: their Chinese masters won’t allow them.