Posted December 21, 2020
RafaelRamus: I would tell the truth:
"It has come to our attention that there is some ongoing controversy regarding the game Devotion and the Chinese market. We are analyzing the situation and we have decided to not release the game right now because of this and we have no new release date in sight."
Zrevnur: Far as I know this is not the (full?) truth though. I have seen evicence on GOG reddit (and I think in forum here too) that GOG made a placating Weibo post promising to "not hurt feelings" or sth like that. Unfortunately I dont have a link. It was also claimed that soon after Chinese made the whole thing vanish from Weibo or sth like that. It can probably be still found somewhere on https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/ "It has come to our attention that there is some ongoing controversy regarding the game Devotion and the Chinese market. We are analyzing the situation and we have decided to not release the game right now because of this and we have no new release date in sight."
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amok: no, my point is only bout "gamers", as you all assume that there are no "gamers", while there may be some as well
If I tried to put myself in their shoes, I would have gently put my arm aorund gOg's shoulder and said: "listen, mate, I know this is not the right thing to do, but if you go through with this, there is a chance that Winnie may find out and he may block you here. If they do, then I lose access to my collection, I can not buy any gamers from you anymore, and I can no longer get updates, and I just bought CP2077, for Frigg's sake, it would take at least two years before it is patched up to a playable state. Can't you, you know, not do this? Please?"
so yes, there may have been some response from people who actually play games in China as well, who would not like to see this happening. Things are most likely mot as black and white as you want them to be, but there are many shades of grey as well...
Then If I tried to put myself in their shoes, I would have gently put my arm aorund gOg's shoulder and said: "listen, mate, I know this is not the right thing to do, but if you go through with this, there is a chance that Winnie may find out and he may block you here. If they do, then I lose access to my collection, I can not buy any gamers from you anymore, and I can no longer get updates, and I just bought CP2077, for Frigg's sake, it would take at least two years before it is patched up to a playable state. Can't you, you know, not do this? Please?"
so yes, there may have been some response from people who actually play games in China as well, who would not like to see this happening. Things are most likely mot as black and white as you want them to be, but there are many shades of grey as well...
tell
us
so!
What good is for them to gain some mainland Chinese and lose at least the same amount outside there?
Also, better pay attention to what Xi Jing Poh has been talking regarding closing the Chinese economy again...
Post edited December 21, 2020 by RafaelRamus