ReynardFox: A problem doesn't stop being a problem just because people like you are sick of hearing about it.
amok: there is also just so many times you can hear about it before you start getting sick of it. it is not like repeating the same thing ad infinitum is suddenely going to make you "oh yaah!". I got it the first time, thank you, no need to repate it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. The only thing you achive is that you may alienate rather then convince. Nagging is possibly another good word, it just turns out annoying.
Dude, we are way past the point where reasoning takes any plausible effect.
We need to take radical steps.
If you are not getting sick of a premise of one country censoring entire outside world while simulatenously you are getting sick of people who are trying to fight it then I don't know what to tell you. It almost sounds like you are embracing it. And that's sad :(
amok: spaming has never helped a cause, the feeling it is more likely to leave in someone is "oh god, not again" rather then "i can get behind this"
Oh really? Remind me how GOG brought the Devotion release down. Oh, it was "messages from many 'gamers'".
And since it happened (the "information" about refusing to fullfill already signed contract with a developer) basically the same time as GOGs announcement about game's release - well - those "gamers" surely achieved what they wanted through, let's face it, SPAM.
So talk about bias.
Krooked_: Even if you stop spending money here as long as you're using their service you're still their customer.
But you do realize that more people on the forum active simulatenously generate higher load on their potato servers and subsequently costs them more money? :P :D
morolf: I can understand that since there are no really equivalent alternatives for now
Playism (beware tho - not a big selection of games - mostly Japanese indies since that's what that platform was meant for)
morolf: [...]
I think it would have been acceptable if they had offered to region-lock Devotion for mainland China.
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amok: No, it would not help at all - this is a very different culture. This is not about censoring, as with Germany or Australia, which do not care as long as it is not sold within their borders. If gOg was only region blocking it, they would still be selling it, which would be seen as approving of / endorsing the game / the publisher. And as it is the game itsef and the publisher which is the problem, this would not change oppinion an iota, but rather make it look sneaky and seen as trying to cheat / trick the Chineese market. This is about loosng face, and how to regain it in that market. Same reason why it is not region blocked on for example Steam. Like this outlook or not, but if you touch the offending product in any shape or form, then you are contaminated. If gOg wanted to keep the Chineese market, this was the best (and possibly only) option they had - to distance themselves from the product completely.
Devotion on Steam was taken down by developers themselves, and for officially other reasons on top of that.
There's a big difference between that and a platform itself backing off from already signed contract (GOG).
Steam did not do that.
On top of that all the allegedly offending content was REMOVED from the game in question LONG BEFORE GOG's announcement of release.
Guess what Steam does when CH does not like something in a game? They sell it everywhere except there.
There's plenty of examples.
mrkgnao: People who are boycotting, to whatever degree they're comfortable with (N=18): Count me in ;)
