tHeTonIvAl: I have always liked GOG. Any time there was a game that was slated for release on GOG I waited so I could get the GOG version. Even when the game lacked the multiplayer features of other services, I'd still buy it on GOG. They were very small sacrifices to make compared to supporting a company that treated their employees well, had good customer service, and were morally upstanding.

So it comes out that CDPR forces the devs of cyberpunk to crunch for months and I convince myself that it's still better than other platforms so it's not enough to stop supporting them.

Then I open cyberpunk after having it preordered as soon as it became available and it's just not very good. I don't want to refund it because, hey, everyone makes mistakes and I figured they'd patch it to improve it over time. Besides, I gotta support the good guys in the industry, right?

Then I see the tweet about Devotion and think "Sure am glad GOG will stand by the little guys and give Taiwanese developers a platform! This game looks good, I think I'll get it!"

Then you do the same thing Steam did. You pull the game to capitulate to the CCP.

The same CCP that unethically censors their own people, uses face recognition technology and uses draconian measures to control their population. The same CCP that destroyed Chinese history and forced the Taiwanese to grab as much of their history as they could and flee in order to protect the true China. The CCP that is planning on invading Taiwan and culturally appropriating it in order to rectify their mistake. The CCP that is currently committing genocide against the Uighur Muslims because they want China to be ethnically homogeneous. I would have thought a Polish company would care more about that but I guess money is more important to you, huh?

Censoring your platform to remove criticism of Xi Jinping constitutes tacit support of the CCP. The CCP needs their dictator to appear strong and crack down heavily on anything that makes him appear weak. They can't have their populace questioning their dictator or maybe the people of China will support a better government and hold the CCP accountable for their actions.

Just an honest question. You treat your employees just as poorly as any other company. You support genocidal dictatorships just like other companies. Your digital distribution platform is objectively worse than every other in terms of number of games, new releases, multiplayer features, and adoption. Why should anyone give you their money? What reason is left to support GOG?

GOG, I am extremely disappointed in you. I feel betrayed. I have requested a refund of cyberpunk, and I'm refunding all my current preorders as well. I will no longer give your platform any support, or money.

If anyone on here wants GOG or CDPR to care at all about this problem you should do the same.

Steam sales are better anyway.

aristotle61: I think you may have been deluding yourself somewhat. GOG is clearly nothing like it used to be, and hasn't been for some time. Corruption is spreading everywhere like wildfire, and clearly GOG wants to be a part of it.

aristotle61: Even without caring about the ethics of the company you buy games from, GOG has become ridiculously expensive. They're selling games that are a quarter of a century old for absurd prices,.

aristotle61: Even though they managed to sucker 8 million people into buying their broken and or unfinished Cyberpunk 2077, I suspect that any remaining trust in GOG is gone now, and it won't be so easy next time.

BluesyMoo: In the case of this game, Steam didn't pull it. The devs did. I'm not saying Steam definitely wouldn't have taken it down later, but as things happened, they didn't.

GOG is spineless worm for referring to China as many gamers.

phibbs: Citation Needed.

No, your issues with Cyberpunk2077 are not an example of corruption. Gamers demanded that CDPR release an unfinished game to the point of making death threats against CDPR simply because they delayed it. Now, Gamers are upset that the game is incomplete. You got exactly what you asked for.phibbs: The price of practically everything goes up. It's called inflation. Go look it up. Further CDPR doesn't dictate the price to publishers. If you don't like the cost of something on GOG, go yell at the publisher.phibbs: Maybe the next time CDPR says the game isn't finished you'll listen to them and give them more time. Otherwise you'll get what you ask for.

mechmouse: Many is an understatement

Try "A metric Fuck-ton of gamers"

https://www.techspot.com/news/83451-chinese-now-most-popular-language-steam-according-monthly.html

CityDPRED: I thought about doing the same, but they already have our money so what is there to gain?

Could just use your account to denounce them at every turn and ward off potential new buyers?

Or shidpost.

David9855: As for the pulled game, steam did it, gog did it, get over it I don't know the full story but controversial games get pulled all the time for all sorts of reasons.

BluesyMoo: Or just switch to a disposable e-mail / password and share your account.