If you don't get it, I'll tell you: one billion potential customers. And don't forget that GOG's mother company is CD Projekt SA, publicly traded and responsible to their shareholders who only care about money, not politics, morals or games. No company can afford to ignore opportunities of doing business in China. Capitalism is dog eat dog. And even if they'd get kicked out eventually, they're making money until that day, and have made their name known in case they can return through more official means (see Steam).

Yeah, I noticed that too. "Here's your free game kids, now shut the fuck up about Devotion!".

Very disappointing. I knew you were bad already with your support for new games, but this is really low. Just stick with your old games.

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There is no way for anything to fly below the radar of Chinese tracking. They got surveillance measures in place beyond Orwell's worst nightmares. Devotion shouldn't even be a source of conflict anymore. This developer removed content after what happened over at Steam.

That aside the real story can be found on Weibo ... Chinese gamers threatened to boycott CP2077 if Devotion was not removed before it was even added. They also threatened CP2077 because they found signs of promoting Taiwanese independence consciousness ... This is where things stand and this is what GoG had to say about hurting Chinese gamer's feelings when releasing Devotion on their official Weibo page: 「GOG.COM 保證不會做出傷害大家感情的事情，請大家放心」。Which roughly translates to GOG.COM promises not do anything that will hurt everyone's feelings. Please rest assured.

I still don't believe that it is gamers but official watchdogs considering the part about hurting Chinese peoples' feelings ... Reason being that I fail to see why this game, not even containing content that was causing an outrage, has been removed after what happened to this Taiwanese developer on Steam the first time there was conflict about this game. Said gamers, who first found a pirated-copy of it, thinking that some of it would satirize their national leader ..., started it and got it removed there and their publisher to drop the studio like a hot potato.

GoG bend to those gamers, they took their time to reply and reassure said gamers on their official Weibo, and all we get is radio silence. That seems to me to be the whole story. GoG seems to be sitting it out not acknowledging their actual customers here thinking that it will be forgotten in a day or a week or even a month from now.

People like her never do...

Also, not to point the obvious to the idiot. I'm not White. And I'm not American. I don't give a shit about the "White race" anymore than I give a shit about the "Black race". And I give even less of a shit about the little feelings of snowflake anti-semitic social-justice-warriors like BLM, Antifa and other Nazi organizations.

I was looking forward to seeing my library going into 1000+ games by next year. But China can stick their murderous anti-freedom ideas up their good-old-games. I ain't touching another product from CD Projekt until they at least take responsibility over their shitty decision and stop tucking in their balls by claiming it was due to "gamers".

Yeah, is it a bird, or is it a plane? As the Guardian pointed out, GOG used to be too small to care.

And still the game didn't return. Removing the content and voicing an apology is sometimes not enough. Because it doesn't alter the fact that they did mock the "leader" (and his mother) and that fact won't go away, even if they remove the "evidence". Tension between China and Taiwan have always been high, sometimes at the brink of war, and everybody is on edge. The devs burnt their publisher (also people with wives and kids, anyone ever think about those?) over a silly joke they should have known wouldn't end well in this tense climate. And now it's GOG getting burned.

GOG have by simply announcing the game maneuvered themselves in an impossible position: Publish the game, get kicked out of China (and probably suffer Chinese troll DDoS during CP77-release and a large sale), get CP77 banned over there, and explaining to their shareholders that freedom of art is more important than their money? Or give in, angering their Western customers for appeasing Chinese censorship and lack of humour?

Of course their handling of the situation was abysmal. Of all the lesser evils they picked the biggest one: blame "gamers".

Whenn you lie straight up to the customer' face and say gamers got angry, but everyone knows what happended to it on Steam, it's inexcusable. If anything, I won't bother buying any game from GOG again. If you want to support this bullshit, be my guest.

Outstanding.

Do you have a PhD, in particular Clownery, I bet you were top of the class?

Sheesh, nobody benefits from racism.

Don't know if someone already mentioned it - but on official Zoom channel one of admins mentioned, that they are willing to add Devotion to their offer (if dev will be interested), but rather not in this year, quoting (by "Zoom_Jordan"):

"if Red Candle Games wants to host Devotion here, that's fine. We're just slammed at the moment. I can reach out to them early next year and see what they say. However, we really need to catch up on our current backlog first. We need to deliver what we already have in the queue."

The lesson here is that corporations in this age invariably become anticapitalist via fiduciary duty: in pure free-market capitalism you're not legally obligated to seek maximum profit, and that profit is only the primary motivator rather than exclusive motivator. The only answre to this sort of thing is to get enough people to counteract the chinese numbers, so that they fail the fiduciary duty, anyway, and it becomes an example to the rest of the world (even then, that's not guaranteed to change anything). Effectively, the whole world is on it's knees before the racist, xenophobic dictatorship that is the CCP. That's why we can't call it Kung Flu.

You should make a thread about it. That's some big news.

Sure, thank you for suggestion, it's done:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/devotion_probable_release_on_zoom_platform