Of course that would still piss us all off, but there's one big difference: At least they would have been direct and honest.

Transparency is important, and passing the blame onto us in such an obvious, shameful and insulting way is orders of magnitude worse for everyone involved.

This, very much this. +1

It will not be forgive and forget, but at least it won't be the insult of intelligence that it was when they passed the cock and bull story. How about this:

Due to an error in judgment we cannot publish Devotion due to future business concerns. We are sorry for those that were looking forward to this release and even more so to Red Candle Games for this mistake.

I frankly preferred if GOG got immediately banned in China, so we'd be all free from their worldwide censorship..

With all the respect to your point of view, which I will say before anything else, I understand, this is utopic.

We barely started talking about the political reasons of why this happened in another thread and someone reminded me that focusing in Politics is forbidden.

But bear with me for a while.

Things involving the C_Country aren't dependant on GOG itself, as this involves greater political reasons far greater than company management, which are decisions made not only by "one head" in GOG headquarters, but many investors and %holders around the world, from many countries.

Im NOT defending GOG in this matter, Im actually trying to clarify the facts for people that may not know how company management works in practice and Im also not saying people around here doesn't know about this, but some may find this information usefull and may understand why Patias is so empathetic about it.

It's hard. Believe it, it is. Many people involved and many carrers that may come to an end, which means, many families might get in harsh situations. Which, if we think, is happening right now in C_Country because of their internal policies, so let's think about this a little. That's why we shouldn't agree with their external policies of literally, in the end of the line, dominating every country through marketing and free market strategies.

Im new around here. Started focusing on GOG after an episode in Steam that made me start to hate DRM even more in a way I didn't before. It's a shame that, when I come to start buying games only here all this mess is going on.

Maybe staying with the...

...is better while we have it.

It's a sad situation - new user point of view - and I understand both, user dissatisfaction and company decisions alike. Whose, as masterfully explained by Patias, still not the best communication decision, from client standpoint.

I hope (I really do) GOG come back in it's wrong decisions and decide, now, to be honest with it's consumers from here on out. (Even more honest, if it is being honest right now.)

You have fully understood the signs of my message.