I thought GOG would want to have this brand new Polish game in their store. At least Desura has it.

What I don't understand is why many seem to think that this is a game made to shock, could it just be that's the game they wanted to make? If it shocks you, it just says something about you and you can go from there.

It would be fun to see how many Hatred-bashers defend police brutality on the account that the guy should have complied faster. Just irrational minds everywhere.

Don't anyone even think about banning Dungeon Keeper!

Holding their ground is exactly what they didn't do. Steam caved. They didn't want to sell the game but they caved.

The reason for GOG to refuse Hatred will probably always be clouded in mystery. God forbid they make a statement saying that they had ideological problems with it. Imagine the outrage. Let's not have that, shall we.

What really annoys me is how the developers, in the attempt to instigate even more advertisement for their game, try to turn people against GOG via facebook. That is just embarrassingly unfair. And all that to market a game that Gabe Logan Fucking Newell has already heavily advertised (yes, that is what factually happened when Valve first pulled Hatred off Greenlight, then dragged the moneybag out for an actually apologizing statement).

I'm all for choice, but I really won't echo the cry to put Hatred on GOG.com. These devs are obnoxious enough as it is. Seeing every little one of their petty marketing ploys succeed, that would definitely irk me. Thanks, but no thanks.

Please take the decision only based on merit and quality not because of political reasons.

btw The game is on Steam so I'd like to see it on GOG too.

Steam didn't get bullied to carry it. From the sounds of it, a lower level employee reacted to mass complaints from "other bullies", read as SJWs, and pulled it from Greenlight due to the number of complaints. Gabe stepped in and reinstated it. If anyone was bullying, it was the group that managed to get it pulled from Greenlight in the first place...

Get your facts straight...

I don't really care that much about hatred and I do feel that it is better that gog says no to some games even if we do not agree. Steam is a mess right now because they decided to say yes to everything.

What I do care about is sticking to your guns. So if they decide not to release it on release, just don't back down and release it in a few months. Either sell it or not...

Oh boy, what did they say? I don't have Facebook.

And that's trying to turn people against GOG? Wow, the lies about Hatred and the devs will never end. It's sad to see how many people will just make stuff up when they don't like something. That's disgusting, and it's been going on since they announced the game last year.

Oh no, people wanting Hatred on GOG are perfectly fine, just as people wanting any other game on GOG. People yelling "Censorship!" "Moral police!" and calling GOG "SWJ!" are those I'm focusing on.

From the sounds of it != facts. Do you have any sources on that?

The linked twitter quote isn't. What they said here on the other hand:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/hatred-developer-says-gog-refuses-to-distribute-the-game/
Is. Quote:
"Hatred will not be available on GOG.com, even though gamers widely expected this to happen, because of GOG’s refusal to distribute the game."

More specifically: "Even though gamers widely expected this to happen." All I've ever seen was 3000 votes on wishlist, and it's not exactly obscure knowledge that GOG refuses a lot of indie games sent their way. This is the kind of play of words which shifts blame on GOG for doing what GOG does quite often, and painting devs as some innocent victims, even tho they're anything but. (it's been devs who have, on purpose, started spreading negative press about the game in the first place.)

Here's the response I got from the devs (I tried to clean up a little of the broken English), though it's nothing new:

"Hi, [the reason for no GOG release] was already told officially. [GOG] said that the game is good, but they "can't". That is the whole story. You can only imagine the reasons."

Spotted the coder! :D Then again, I imagine a lot of people on here have at least some programming experience come to think of it :-\

OK, I try to imagine. I imagine there was an issue with DRM in that game and therefore GOG "can't" release it.

I don't believe in theories that GOG is too politically correct for the game judging by what other games are available on here. And if the dev says the truth and the game is "good" in GOG's eyes, and the price is fine, then for me that only leaves a problem with DRM.

Very interested in the sources here, particularly in the supposed "lower level employees" in a company that prides itself of the flattest organizational structure known to man.