I know in this case there's still Desura (tho I'm not sure what's it's status anymore, considering the posts about delayed payments and changing owners and all). I'm also not sure I'd trust gamersgate after trying to remove drm-free downloads from people's accounts without warning.

But on the other hand, there's something to be said about putting all one's eggs into one basket. And it would be better for me if I were just following price tags all along.

But then... what if... gog lied, about the game being good ?

:insert conspiracy keanu reeves meme:

I'm inclined to believe the developers. EDIT: BTW, devs didn't mention any political reasons.

My theories are:

1-GOG is affraid of the negative response by the (dangerous and hypocrite) persons that cannot distinguish a video game from reality and that also like to play Postal and kill civilians and cops in GTA just for the lulz.

2- EDIT: Forget this. GOG already sells AO rated games. (but their web developers continue to be crap)

If they won't sell it because they would have to regional lock it's sale in some countries, they already do that with other games. Game is bad or unfinished? They already sell "gems" like Slender and Caribbean. Game's theme? It just looks like a Postal 1 HD version (with the due differences).

PS: I will just leave this here, if someone want to read.

Then they did. Destructive only repeated what GOG said -> no court case. But the question was: "what if the devs will start saying GOG rejected it for political reasons" when in reality all they've said is that "we can't sell your product, period". Then it's a court case. Thus they are not gonna do that, unless they're financially suicidal.

GOG hosts Carmegeddon, a game solely based on killing civilians, animals, and competitors, Fallout 1+2, a game where you can murder groups of children, Hotline Miami with an entire mission dedicated to taking out just innocent people, the Crusader games where you can kill innocent Scientists, the Hitman series, where you can kill anyone and everyone, Saint's Row, where mass murder of civilians is commonplace, but has a problem with Hatred? The same game that takes the framework of the original Postal (which you host both the first and second game of)? You can't pretend to take a moral high ground when you host all of these other games. I've been a loyal customer for many years and have always sung the praise of GOG, now I'll just take my business to one of the many other DD services out there if this is what you're going to do. It's your right to not host a game, and it's my right to go somewhere else.

Well GOG already sells AO and pegi18+, so that excuse doesn't stand either.

Yeah, I saw that post right after posting mine. I thought GOG didn't sold AO games.

Yeah, my point was not really about trials and stuff, only about the argument "it was a good game because gog said so therefore it is a case of political oppression". "Good game but" could be a mere polite answer.

But such speculations and metaspeculations and branching postmetaspeculations are pointless. Just like this ridiculous crisis. Even if it turned out a good games, there are excellent games that have been turned down by gog, without people to start screaming and setting themselves on fire in front of their offices.

As Potzato said, this is just a vehicle for political statements. I'd be surprised if anyone here actually cared for the game's quality. All the insta-fanboyism comes solely from the "it is a game where you can do this and that" aspect, and this suffices for an insta-cult status (complete with martyrdom). Rendering these gratuitous speculations even more moot (do we say mooter ? i like the sound of mooter).

Would be nice to read an official statement on why GOG decided against selling the game. Would stop rumors and it's always nice to have a good communication with your customers.

Perhaps, but so is the AVGN movie, and that gets permission? Why? It is not even a game, IT IS NOT EVEN A GAME

I've suspected the whole time that with that statement GOG was merely buying more time for themselves to figure out what to do, nothing else.

Like I mentioned before, very strange move by GOG. Seeing that the game will be sold on multiple sites now, not just Steam, they wouldn't risk becoming "worse guys than the others" if they had decided to sell the game. Therefor, the only (at least a little bit) logical answer would be that by refusing to sell the game, GOG is trying to send the message "if you hate violence in video games - don't worry, because we do too! Come to us, dear future customer!" Then again, this doesn't explain why they still continue to sell games like Postal, Carmageddon, etc. Like I said...very strange move by them. Basically all they're doing, is submitting themselves from the giant pile of cash customers are collectively willing to spend for the game around all game stores that are going to shelf the game.

Second this.

Yep, that's prety much what's holding me back from desperately waiting for this game ("wait and see") as it could become boring after 10 minutes (both for gameplay and aesthetics). If I want to go full rampage, I have GTA Online who has much more to offer besides that...

I also put this here:

Is there a DRM-free version of the game?
As I see it you could only pre-order it on Steam or Desura but not to download it from dev site itself.
And I'm not sure if the Desura version is DRM-free.
This is just worded weirdly:
https://twitter.com/Desura/status/571470792975785984
(It's certainly not my type of game but I'm curious.)