You mean, the devotion devs got GOG to pretend that GOG themselves backtracked the release, but in reality it was all masterminded by devs themselves? Whoa, minds blown...

Obvious troll is obvious.

moment of sincerity

Transcription and translation as promised

Screenshot 1 "GOG.COM guarantees not to do anything to hurt everybody's feelings, please rest assured." "Hahahahaha, feels like one can just sit and watch, GOG directly deleted that post." "Boycott [Cyberpunk] 2077"

Responding to Mela70nia: "Boycott!"

Responding to 惡·犬 ("Fierce Dog"): "Excellent, fast-forward to [the moment when] [all] games [from] the GOG platform are completely banned"

Responding to 杨勃碍, a person who perhaps expressed some doubts: "[But] CDPR [CD Projekt Red] did insult [China] after all" "GOG's done for"

Screenshot 2 "We received a lot of comments from you regarding the news earlier today about 'Devotion' becoming available on GOG. Hereby we would like to let all of you know that this game will not be published on the GOG platform."

I was mostly right ^_^

This part is actually somewhat interesting. "Kwiat" is obviously not a very Chinese nickname. As a matter of fact, it happens to be a word in Polish, meaning 'flower.' So there's some account with a Polish-sounding nickname cheering on as calls intensify for the boycott of the "Polish Stupid Ass" (what CD Projekt is commonly referred to as in China). You couldn't make that up.

You were.

I can't really browse Weibo (seems to interfere with my browser settings) but from the screenshots we can see the 3 social-media accounts in China that are now in charge of curating the GOG platform: https://weibo.com/u/2007065461 FaN7a-SY, https://weibo.com/u/2041441477 Mela70nia, and https://weibo.com/u/7523766913 惡·犬 ("Fierce Dog"). At least the first two of these also seem to be mutual followers.

lions den? what is that arent lions just sleep in the open?

It's an expression, I guess it comes from the Biblical tale.

Maybe I could've come up with someting better. How about: "poking the panda with a tweet."

If this is true, That would explain a lot about GOG's bias curation system, let alone the shit CDPR pulled at the start of the year with their virtue signaling.

There was a nearly universal surprise with GOG's decision, how it was communicated, and the subsequent silence about it. The official GOG message board seems like the obvious place to discuss it, also giving the company a chance to respond and address the community. Numerous people presented their take on various aspects of the whole situation. Considering the number of posts, having the discussion separated into more than a single thread seems reasonable to me.

Practically all the other threads here now are either promotional in nature or completely off-topic, with most of the remaining ones being one-off questions or complaints about technical issues or the refunds process. I don't see any harm being done by having a couple of threads to discuss different aspects of what many see as GOG's most severe reputational crisis since its inception. However, you're certainly free to make your case to the forum moderators that this, as well as presumably all the other Devotion-related threads, be removed.

That being said, I've only ever created one thread (this one), and it was to share not just my opinion but also some of the information I was able to find out, which hadn't been posted up to that point. As a matter of fact, I also believe you yourself had created at least one thread related to the Devotion controversy as well, and that was just to state your opinion, without uncovering any new facts.

It would seem then that each of us created an equal number of threads on this subject, only I also did it with the goal to provide some new information.

I appreciate your concern for my well-being. You are certainly entitled to your judgment regarding the usability of the information in this thread. However you may recognize that your subjective opinion on this matter is not necessarily a universal one. On a general note, most people would likely agree that knowing more is uniformly a better position to find oneself in than knowing less. Thus, extra information, as long as it is truthful, could hardly be considered strictly useless.

Relating to this situation, there have been consistent calls for GOG to explain who the "many gamers" that demanded the game be delisted were. This thread is, in particular, an attempt to shed some light on this question in lieu of an official explanation never provided by GOG.

As a matter of fact, I've never claimed to be unbiased and objective. I am simply stating my own subjective opinion on the matter, just as anybody else on a discussion forum would. My bias is clear as a person with a long-term positive sentiment towards CD Projekt/GOG who would like to be able to remain their customer.

Being both unbiased and objective is a very hard benchmark to attain. Out of sheer curiosity, do you consider yourself less biased and more objective on this issue than I am?

That is the polar opposite of what I've been saying. It was GOG, I believe, that forced this issue on their Chinese social-media followers. It's all laid out in the initial post. What you put in quotation marks is not an actual quote from anything I would have written (even more so considering the grammar).

If you look at what I wrote here and in the other threads, you will have seen that I have consistently interpreted the events in a manner most accommodating to the Chinese side, whenever there is any room for interpretation. For example, a lot of the discussion has focused on whether there is any objectionable content in the game or not, i.e. whether the Chinese have a reason to complain at all. Yet in this very thread I specifically wrote that: That is, regardless of the actual content of the game. What's more, I also said how GOG's decision to promote the game in China was (perhaps inadvertently) politically-charged. If you are implicitly accusing me of anti-China bias then by all means go on but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody else who's gone to such lengths not to reach for the low-hanging fruit of jumping to easy conclusions on this matter.

Have you seen the attached screenshots? I've also posted a transcript and translation since. I think at this point what happened should be pretty evident, unless you choose to ignore the obvious facts, that is.

That was mostly yet another sarcastic joke from me, but yes, GOG (not CDPR) did fire several, including a few males that were more or less active and popular here (no need to go into specifics). In reality, I have no idea how many in total or how many males vs females there were, but it got more and more silent over the course of a few years. Those three mods here now are all females (but again, not anything against them personally, just how GOG as a whole have chosen to be/act/behave and handle their customers/fans).

Kinda had a feeling you were being sarcastic but then again in the EU or EU countries in general there are subsidies tied to this diversity bullshit. Last time I recall one of our ministers called out the fact that if you don't have enough blacks or women in certain sectors your subsidies will be taken from you or will be withheld. Maybe CDPR doing the same with their first part of year announcement virtue signaling the gender and color of their staff. Not that it should matter in the first place. Anybody who says that only diversity of the mind should matter gets labeled racist.

And for a long time, it seems this place has been lacking in delivering any actual games cause variety is barely to be found. Every release feels nothing more than another copy-pasted game after another. Not to mention the retarded nature of how they handled the China affair shows they have little insight and just pander to any person that cries being offended.

Really now? Not very modest are we?
so i guess you now claim to be speaking in the name of the "many", who claim that this is somehow a reputation crisis of GOG...so many claims, so little reason.
However much i think you guys are disturbed idiots, i respect your right to be so, so i will fight GOG if they ever decide to remove your idiotic posts.
Correct, point taken.
Another point taken but....can you say with a straight face that the goal of your post was to provide new information?
Yeah, the only problem is that you fail to shed any light on this question. Just an opinion.
Yes and no, yes for the simple reason im less emotionally invested in this issue. Dont give a toss about the game, the Chinese gamers sensibilities, the GOG decision and all...and no because i am emotionally invested against the excessive drama generated by this subject and its inherent anti-China tone.
There are the facts and there are our interpretations of facts.
The facts are few in this case, and your interpretations are many, and not based on anything solid.
Personally im not ignoring the few facts, what i am rejecting is your interpretations of said facts.

Who said it's wrong to be off-topic here? I didn't. It's not. So I wasn't passing a judgment of any kind, if that's what you're implying. This is a forum for GOG users, not just about GOG. People discuss whatever they want. GOG also posts new topics to keep people updated about new releases and seasonal discounts: these are the promotional topics. The two categories combined make up a lot of this forum, and there's nothing wrong with it. Nobody ever said there was.

As a reminder, I wrote this in response to your claim that there were too many topics about the Devotion controversy. There can never be too many GOG-related topics on the official GOG forum. At end of the day that's what this forum is for.

In any case, there were more topics briefly, but it's down to only a couple active topics now, of which one was created as the release announcement by GOG themselves.

No, I don't. In fact I have specifically said that:
You implied I created many topics. Not true. I did not. I only created a single topic. However, many other people created many topics. You complained about many topics. I don't see any problem with many topics about an important issue related to GOG on the official GOG forum. The people who created these topics believe this is an important issue, a reputational problem for GOG. I happen to agree but this is not only my isolated opinion. I speak in my own name, and all the other people who posted about it, and created all the topics you complained about, speak in their own respective names. Does this all really have to be clarified?

If you yourself saw many topics about this appearing, all but a single one not created by me, you can't possibly be saying nobody else thought it was an important issue. It's either one or the other.

You claim I was speaking in the name of many: I wasn't. Yet now you seem to be talking to many?

Who else are you referring to? There's only me here.

I already said I also did it with the goal of providing new information (highlighted in the original quote).

For the record, the other goals included stating how I consider this information relevant, and presenting my point of view on the matter.

Just my biased and subjective opinion here but you don't strike me as a person who's not emotionally-invested in this issue at all.

Fair point. There could be more facts. How do we get them? Certainly not from GOG, as they've gone silent. Any ideas where and how to obtain more facts?

Separately, given the facts we know now, what is your interpretation of them, and how is it different than what I presented?

Chinese being racist to GOG because they're Polish?.....figures.
(that seems to be a big problem over there in general...somewhat shown in things like how foreign games and other media must be changed to be sold in some such countries)

So it's a small "clique" of users causing all the uproar which led(more or less) to the GOG decision? Just like with other kneejerk responses by gaming companies and other companies(after such uproar on other social media).

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Sidenote: Ka-bo-ro is very likely a troll...and possibly trying to derail the thread, pick apart the topic(for whatever reason), and/or insult people. My advice is to not bother replying to them(at least in this topic).
(though of course, everyone can and should do as they please)