The leader of China, Xi Jinping, banned the character Winnie the Pooh in China because there was a meme about him resembling the character. People now use images of Winnie the Pooh as a way to mock and defy him and the government of China.

Well, they can shove that zloty up their back sloty.

They banned Winnie the Pooh in China, because people were joking that Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh. Since then it became a meme.

A running joke in China is that one of the leaders looks like Winnie the Pooh, and consequently Winnie the Pooh was banned in China.

Yea, I'm done with this company. I should've listened to SHAZAM.

Thank god I didn't drink something while reading your comment. :)

Yeah, I'll probably skip this sale. I wasn't interested in Devotion, but supporting censorship (among other things)...nah. :/

Several years ago there was a picture on the internet about Chinese president Xi Jinping looking like Winnie the Pooh. Then Chinese censors started censoring it and even banned Disney's Winnie the Pooh movie from being released in China. Naturally people reacted on this by doubling down the on the Xi/Winnie the Pooh joke as a way of making fun of Chinese dictatorship.

Hey, GOG... Apparently, actual gamers can be just as scary as China, who would have thought, huh?

Probably a good thing, don't need to be charged with attempted murder because of a joke.

Oh yeah, I bet they are experiencing traffic. One of those support tickets is my request to refund all games I have purchased in the last 30 days, as official GOG return policy allows. Once I get my money back - and I will get it back one way or the other - I'm leaving this platform. I recommend the same to others disappointed by GOG and CDP bowing to china.

Oh look, the two top trending topics on r/games:

- SkateBIRD not coming to gog and Hot Tin Roof getting pulled over Devotion debacle
- Devotion debacle

Prison Architect giveaway has 25% the amount of upvotes the Devotion thread has.

Well done, gog! Real bang up job you did on your street cred, gog!

Devotion was a Taiwanese Horror game released after their fairly successful Detention.
Devotion is similar in tone and most chinese liked it when it was released. Then one chinese gamer realized that one of the prayer slips on the wall didn't have a prayer on them rather a Xi Jinping winnie the pooh joke. The chinese got furious both because of the joke and because they felt betrayed that they gave the game good reviews only to later find out about this. The devs appologized and claimed it was just a harmless in joke one designer used as a placeholder and it was never meant to be in the final game. But the chinese was still mad and review bombed the game and harresed the developers and publishers until the game was pulled from all stores.

The devs practically got driven underground and they were so relived that someone would offer to host their game. And then the CD Projekt BLUE curbstomped their dreams again.

I have supported you guys forever CDR, I have all your games, up to several copies. I always buy games on gog over steam, even when gog's price is substantially higher. I stuck with the delays of cyberpunk, I stuck with the broken release that hardly runs on my machine. And I was willing to forgive it all when I heard you would give Devotion a chance. You have no idea how betrayed I feel. Despite all your mistakes i always felt that your heart was in the right place. but this....

Fuck.

I was interested in Devotion, but even if I wasn't, I've still removed the things I placed in my shopping cart today. Some things are more important.

Wanted to get the Destroy All Humans remake and Wolfenstein II but nope, gog just had the itch to fuck something up again. :P