Yeah, have GOG ever actually responded to critical or negative feedback here?

Failed lotteries, selling epic games in galaxy, redeem page not working, bowing down to china..and more both before and after.

A list would be pretty handy to shove in their faces now and again.

PS. I like your new title.

Well one Blue promised to look at and answer our concerns in the Epic Games thread... then subsequently disappeared. That's as "good" as it's ever gotten in my experience.

Also thanks. :)

Don't forget contests they hosted but then never ever awarded anyone the promised prizes for, like the Sunless Skies story contest (unless one day they secretly awarded a winner long after everyone forgot about that scandal, which I doubt they did).

Or similarly, the rigged contest for the Cyberpunk catchphrase, in which they never even read all the entries, and the one they awarded as the winner was a really crappy line.

They definitely never responded to any of the questions/feedback/criticism about those things.

So did this happen more than once? I'm so mad at them about the Horizons Zero giveaway. They made 0 info about it, no winners list nothing, clearly just a scam. I bet their PR team is garbage, they use twitter in write only mode..

Thank you. I should have used contests instead of lotteries. My bad.

GOG seems happy to respond on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit though..
I think. I don't spend much time there at all.
They've probably fallen for the social media group-think going on.

Someone made a horror game that pissed of China, and no one has been insane enough to risking being banned in China over it. This shocks you? Do you honestly think whatever sales this game would get could possibly be more valuable than the damage done if they put the game up and the Chinese government retaliates somehow? Just banning GOG in China would do far more harm then one game could reasonably be expected to compensate for.

No, what shocks some of us is how GOG seemed to think it was a good idea to post about it to chinese run social media before the release was scheduled.

It's possible...china is a big market, but there is a bigger COMBINED worldwide market for games.

Heck, look at how south park gave china the middle finger and cut ties there. They seem to still be doing well.

V-p-n-s are a thing, you know....chinese people could still get the games by "moving to another country to buy them".

1: Yeah posting about it on social media, much less Chinese social media, was a very bad idea. They should have just put it up on the store with no more fanfare then any other game, or release it as part of a bundle of horror games and not do anything special to draw attention.

2a :Would the number of people who want this game be higher then the number of GOG customers in China though? Sure there are many more gamers in the rest of the world but only a fraction of them would want this game.

2b : Would sales of the game outweigh the total sales lost if China retaliated?

3a: VPNs cost money.

3b: Are VPNs legal in China? Because that sounds like something they would ban there to me honestly.

Agreed....which is why the claim that GOG was smart because they delisted Devotion makes less sense....if they are smart they would have done as you said or similar to that.

(tbh I think it was either a lower level staffer who thought they knew better about how to do such things, or the higher up's greed overrode common sense & they allowed the advertising/pr staff to post it anyways)

There are over 8000 votes for the game(and since many don't bother voting for such things, the actual number of people who might've voted for the game is likely higher).....if even a fraction bought it it would likely outweigh the complaints they got, that alone likely would've outweighed the ones who claimed they would've boycotted the store had GOG sold the game.

(also it's likely that some of the ones complaining likely weren't going to boycott if GOG decided to sell the game)

If china blocked GOG, chinese citizens likely still would've "moved" to buy games from GOG anyways... making such moves by the CCP near pointless.

They're like 5 bucks a month for basic plans....and well worth it for many people.

They likely aren't....but many use them anyways to get around the great firewall.
(for things including buying games and media their govt doesn't want them to have)