I don't want to boycott, I am forced to. I am seeing a lot of people boycotting, some even delete their accounts completely. I am afraid that gog might close up shop soon. Therefore I am afraid to invest more into my gog library as I may lose access to my games soon. I feel like being held hostage or something.

I am backing up my best games, as I have not enough resources to invest in numerous external hdds, my internet is slow too.

I don't care for devotion or politics. Most of the companies do shady stuff when it comes to China, because they want to do business, and it is a large market. I also believe that killing gog will not free Taiwan or overthrow the CPP. Ain't gonna happen.

However, I feel hurt due to the fact that GOG seems to be completely ignoring this situation. No explanations, no responses. Their twitter post was vague at best. There is no communication with the fandom at all.

Anyhow, if gog goes under I will go back to epic and steam, companies that can also be considered shady.

I also hate how people forget everything good GOG has done. They forget that despite this situation GOG is still a much better and consumer friendly platform that the other major platforms.

Just foolish emotional behavior, that is just not justified if they used logic and reason.

Seems pretty clear to me that you are letting your emotions guide you. Not saying you shouldn't take them into account, just that logic and reason should always rule taking that factor onboard.

Indeed, but some are just blinded by their emotions.

P.S. Sometimes you have to embrace the enemy before you can change them. China is a not an insignificant player or power. Commonsense should be telling us all to tread carefully, as there could be far more at stake.

China's making a move to secure more and more power. Realistically, this means that this is a battleground, which means there's actually hope to win it. If this wasn't a battle ground, we wouldn't be having this conversation. The bully is bigger and badder than we are, but we're not fighting in their territory, but our own. We don't exactly have much of a chance of fighting this in China. However, we have a pretty good chance of fighting this here in the west. I do thin kthe boycott route is not exactly the best avenue, but instead a grass roots PR campaign. China's mostly focused on the PR right now, and it's all about slowly creeping their censorship into the west. China clearly doesn't really care about the damn pooh jokes. No, what China is upset with is that their firewall is ineffective, and their own people are seeing this stuff, and that they can't even ban it from their own country. So, they're trying to bully with what power they do have to try to remove it from elsewhere. If, instead, people started anti-china pooh meming, china would be in trouble, especially if it was multiple platforms. Not only would their people see a resistance, without the need for translation, but they'd also see that China's powerless to prevent them from seeing it. All they can do is back off and tighten their firewall, which might also include kicking google, steam, gog, and everyone else out, too. It's like having a big bad bully that's deathly afraid of hermit crabs. This is all about china trying to play with the global market while continuing to censor their internal population.

Similarly, the same shenanigans are going on in the middle-east. I've seen arguments from muslims that the reason they need ISIS and the like is to stop the west from"spreading corruption in the land." Like, you know, romance scenes in movies, porn, LGBTQIA+, etc, which seems to be mostly what they're focused on, but they have other complaints as well.

Just make them choose between the global market and protecting their citizenry from external criticism. That's really all it takes. What are the social media platforms going to do? Block and ban all pooh related stuff? Does anyone honestly think that most people, even among the different political factions, would be cool with that? The only thing they could do to safe face is adopt the damn bear, themselves, but then they'd be showing their people that they've changable with numbers, and that chances a revolution. They cracked down way too hard and invested way too much in preventing this, that they basically created their own damn weakspot.