The controversy was caused by blogtivists and outraged moms from the 1950s, not the game devs. And it looks like the devs are trying to protect GOG by not saying more about the rejection, which could make GOG look like puritans or afraid of backlash from either their customers, or maybe Polish organizations that fear the big neo-nazi game that will corrupt their children.

They're acting with a lot of respect and I'm glad that they are.

Vain, you never actually discuss anything anyway. All you do is try to distort and deceive. You know exactly what happened and take one article that didn't explain the reason and claim its "proof" to the contrary.
You were either intentionally trying to deceive or were in fact an idiot. Either way, it does not paint you in a good light....

Customers want it on GOG, GOG makes no statement. They go to the devs, and the devs give a brief answer to satisfy them without airing dirty laundry in public, because they have class, something a lot of little wannabe censors on the internet lack.

Oh noes, they are using social media for marketing! Those bastards!

I also don't claim to.

Isn't Greenlight process automated? As far as I know, Valve can at any time pull a game from Greenlight, but they do not actively monitor what goes in.

You mean there was pressure from SJW busy bodies which was then followed by pressure by SJW busy bodies of a different opinion :-P

First of all, no, controversy was caused by devs. They wanted to cause controversy to begin with. They're not innocent victims of all this, they have instigated it, knowing all too well what is going to happen.

Second, I've never seen GOG give a reason for refusal, so they're not protecting anything - they're most likely in the dark just as much as everybody else is.

No you can say that when it's an unknown game from an unknown studio literally had little to no interest before the steam debacle, and there is a difference between games featuring violence to a game being nothing but violence. You kill people in GTA sure, but that not the main point of the game. The controversy made it interesting, not the game itself.

Not saying I don't want it here, I actually probably would buy it... but lets not put on our rose tinted glasses either.

He just wants to be called Väinä, not Vain.

I came to this conclusion because the in-game activation key is the same one that is used to add it to the Desura account. I'd really like to play it but my XP is offline and there's no Linux port, too bad. -.- Damn DRM.

Oh yeah, because Mortal Kombat unlike Hatred was already a huge franchise before it became famous for its ultra violence, it's not like the ultra violence and the executions were specifically used to turn a Street Fighter clone into a commercial success. And using the size of the studio as an argument just doesn't make any sense.

And well, maybe GTA is not officially specifically about killing people but it's also a game that used controversial content as a unique selling point and I don't think anyone at Rockstar would deny it, especially concerning the origins of the series. You can say what you want but people like me and my friends, we played the original GTA back then because it was a game where you ran people over for money God dammit and also GTA III was all about the ability to break the law and go on violent rampages. GTA's premise is a tad less controversial than Hatred's but ultimately it's the same approach on a different scale.

Who's Pete Haas and why should I care what he thinks? And no one said they are victims.

GOG refused Thomas was Alone because it was too expensive, but the truth came out years later. Perhaps Destructive will eventually disclose the letter one day once there can't be any backlash against GOG.

I mostly posted the article as a collection of links more than anything else. Devs wanted the controversy is the main point here.

Well on that matter, they just did because instead of putting a message on twitter/facebook and leaving it at that, they published a full press release (article quote: "the developer said in a press release") which is IMO more of a marketing stunt than letting it go just like every rejected devs do for their unpublished games on GOG. I don't have the full press release at hand (I'm curious to read it) but it's already been published on destructoid and vg247, so yeah, good commercial move from them....

Nice

It's also available on their site.