monkeydelarge: I was right this entire time. GOG rejected the game because of what the game expresses.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/hatred-developer-says-gog-refuses-to-distribute-the-game/
Nothing to do with quality or anything else.
real.geizterfahr: Yupp. That's why we never heard anything about Half Life 3 again and got a shitload of new hats for TF2 instead.
monkeydelarge: People love TF2. And it's easy money for Valve...
Yes because a Dev who has been marketing the game based on how controversial it is since interest started skyrocketing after the initial greenlight incident, is a reliable source here. Not saying that it's 100% false just that there is a chance that they are stretching the truth to suit their own intrests which is making this game a controversial as possible and a prominent digital store out right refusing it due to by the devs initial claims was given a "It's a good game but we just can't sell it" response from GOG. So with that vauge response you can make that mean just about anything and it wouldn't be lying because they can claim from their standpoint it sounded like they didn't want it because of it's controversial nature.
Again I am not saying that this is the case, just years of living in the US where politicians, advetisers, promoters, ect. live and die by stretching the truth to suit their own interests, that and maybe it's also my time dealing with pro-wrestlers and wrestling promoters as well since for years they were legendary hucksters and masters of working people. I grown quite skeptical especially when there is money to be made and your product went from barely a blip on the radar to this hot product all because of controversy.
Still until we have both sides, which I doubt is ever going to happen since GOG is in a damned if they do/damned if they don't position where anything they say on the subject will be held and used against them in the court of public opinion. Plus on the off chance that the devs are stretching the truth or even outright bullshitting it wouldn't be the first time since Tyrone Rodriguez of Nicalas claimed that the reason why their games weren't on GOG was because GOG didn't offer the "standard" 70/30 revenue split to which it was revealed that Tyrone was talking out of his ass as he never even talked to GOG ever.