Did GOG remove this game from the store page? I am not finding it anywhere. Could it have possibly been to get rid of more bugs, cause I'm still encountering some really bad screen tearing.

:O You are right, it's gone! The link to the game page now just takes you to the full list of games on GOG.
https://www.gog.com/game/call_of_cthulhu_dark_corners_of_the_earth

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_call_of_cthulhu_dark_corners_of_the_earth_b7169/page3

I gather from the last few comments that the game is pulled temporarily, no reason given, but they intend to bring it back.

It appears it was removed with no explanation. As for the screen tearing, I haven't yet installed the game, but if there's an option for vertical sync (vsync), turn it on. If not, you should be able to turn it on system-wide with your GPU software. If you have an Nvidia GPU, you can open Nvidia Control Panel, and under 3D settings, click on "Manage 3D settings". On the right, in the Global Settings tab, scroll down and change the Vertical sync setting to on and apply your change. This will turn on vsync for everything system-wide. If you prefer for it to be off for certain games/apps, you can turn it back to "Use the 3D application setting" when you finish playing the game. My display only has a refresh rate of 60hz, so some games, particularly old ones, give me horrendous screen tearing and don't have a vsync option, so I just leave it on all the time in Nvidia Control Panel.

I sincerely hope it comes back on sale soon... I missed the first sale since was without internet for a week while moving :o

I already bought this when it became available, but was disappointed to learn the state at which it was released. I hope that when they relaunch the game, that they add the following:

-native widescreen support with PROPER FOV scaling
-endgame unwinnable escape timing fixed
-uncorrupted savegames

According to this post by a blue, Dark Corners of the Earth was removed because of legal issues, not because of the bugs or the save file corruption issues, or whatnot.

This is all speculation on my part, mind you, but, like others, I, too, think we're witnessing a "Re-Volt situation", a game that was removed from GOG because the modding community asked for it, rather than the publisher. Zenimax/Bethesda own the rights to the game (they fully own the rights of the PC version), and we all know Bethesda is on GOG, so the chances of this being asked by Bethesda are next to none -- you can still buy Dark Corners of the Earth on Steam, which you wouldn't be able to do, if this was something at Bethesda's level. The thing is that the GOG version is different than the version Bethesda sells on Steam, and we have to look at those differences: mods, patches, fixes, all developed by individuals who are not related to Zenimax or Bethesda in any capacity. I'm assuming that as soon as some or at least one of these people got word that GOG was selling a version of the game with their patches and fixes, they asked for the game to be released, as Bethesda, the publisher GOG works with, doesn't have the right to sell or monetize their products, and now GOG is trying to solve this in a legal capacity, while trying to get the game back.

Some times using community fixes and patches included with the sold version of a game works wonders, and the modding community is nice and cool about it, like what happens with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, the version of which GOG sells includes at least one major community patch that fixes a lot of stuff in the game. Other times, though, like what happened with Re-Volt, the modding community can be a real pain in the butt, and will complicate things as much as they can if they're not getting acknowledgement or revenue (Re-Volt got removed a few years back because some guy who modded it claimed to have rights over the game, and I assume GOG is still trying to get it back to this day, to no avail).

If this is, indeed, the case, then I hope GOG gets the game back soon enough, even if it means selling it completely unmodded and unfixed, the way Bethesda sells it on Steam. I've been playing Dark Corners of the Earth on PC practically since it came out, ranging through a lot of OSes and different hardware, and we *know* this game is problematic and has a lot of issues. It was nice of GOG to give us a semi-fixed version, but if the people who made the fixes are going to be whiny little douche bags about it, I'd rather have the game completely unmodded, but at least available to purchase, and get the mods later, on my own.

Luckily for me, I managed to get Dark Corners of the Earth, just like I managed to get Re-Volt, before it, so they'll stay in my library. But it's still very sad that a lot of GOG costumers will not be able to buy these games, particularly if the modding community (which gets so much praise in the PC world) is to blame.

It seems odd to me in my ignorance of copyright law that someone who makes an unofficial patch without the permission of the copyright holder would have some claim to their work modifying someone else's work. If I were to post some code to the internet without making some claim of ownership, would it be legal for someone to take my work and sell it? If so, it seems like it would be difficult to make some legal claim of ownership of something modifying someone else's work without their permission.

Maybe a good analogy would be Star Wars fan fiction. Obviously, it wouldn't be legal to make money from a work that uses copyrighted property, so I couldn't sell my own unauthorized Star Wars fan fiction. Would it be legal for Disney to take what I had publicly released and sell it themselves?

I think *legally* GOG could go ahead and sell the game with as many fan fixes as it wants, as most games' EULA specifically addresses intellectual property rights, which belong to the publisher. But I also think they want to be perceived as modder friendly and are trying to work it out said whiny douche bags. :-)

Once again some crybabies in the modding community ruins things for everyone else. Wah wah you can't sell this game because I made a fix for it which was intended to be used but you can't use it to make the game run for everyone. What the actual fuck is wrong with these people.

I wish gog would just go ahead and promptly ignore them, and bring back the game along with revolt which was a completely similar situation.