I am kinda disappointed in GOG's decision here too, but the developer announced that GOG did test the game beforehand. The build they got shouldn't have differed much from the final one at this point.

All them mentioned games rejected by gog were regular games, "inside the norm" "standard" and whatever else we can call them. They were rejected for tech reasons, price etc, nothing to do about censorship, freedom etc.
And now enter hatred. it's the first game that is out of the norm, not standard, it's extremely visual, graphic and explicit and beside all the reasons mentioned already for rejecting a game a new one appears, imo a very important one: censorhip. And that makes a big difference between those games and this one.

Taking into consideration all the data we have now for this matter I'd put my money on gog rejecting this game for censorhip reasons and purposes. Of course I cannot be 100% sure yet but imo there's a high probability censorhip is the main reason gog rejected it.
We will find soon enough after the game launches:
-if the game is bad then gog rejected because of tech reasons;
-if the game is good then it'll be obvious that gog censorship rejected it and imo that'll be extremely bad.
One more week and it'll all be clear.

The problem is ssteam already has market monopoly and I'd like to vote with my wallet and thus strenghten the market position of his closest potential competitor, aka gog.
I refuse to give my money to support and consolidate an existing monopoly. And also I refuse to waste my potential support by giving my money to some minuscule peanuts marketshare like desura or devs.

Well written post, plus1

It's the same "old as the world" reason: fear, of something different, of something new. It's different than us so it generates fear and so we must kill it.
Plenty of examples throughout the history of mankind.

Yep. This game will get an initial sales spike due to the controversy surrounding it, before the lackluster reviews start coming in and word of mouth and people realize it's just another isometric shoot & loot and other games have done the genre much better already.

I'd be shocked if it's still being talked about even 3 months after it's release.

GoG is not a government entity, the freedom of speech argument has no place here.

I downvoted because of the OP's childish tantrum. And I'm downvoting you because you keep assuming this has anything to do with freedom of speech and that anyone who downvoted the OP must hate freedom of speech. And reading through the rest of the thread, you've actually surpassed the OP in ludicrousness.

Will you refuse to buy games on any other stores either, if they don't sell Hatred? Have any stores decided to sell it? Even Humble Widget?

If I was the maker of Hatred, I'd probably try to sell it on my own store, Minecraft/Penumbra/Telltale-style. That's the beauty of PC gaming, you can set up your own store, no one can prevent you from releasing your game.

EDIT: Ok reading above, apparently some other stores will sell it too (Desura?), and the developer directly too. Good, I don't see the real issue here.

I'm mildly interested to see the game due to all this wailing, if there is anything good in it. For what its worth, I was actually surprised by the level of violence in the latest Mortal Kombat (saw some Youtube videos). The original Mortal Kombats felt more like comedic with their violence, but this is goresplatter-whatever. Slicing people in half with circular saws and whatnot... I knew it was supposed to be violent, but it was even more than what I expected. It is no more cool-har-har for me, more like yikes!

It's exactly the opposite in this case. The "Steam or no buy" crowd are fans of Steam who are completely uninterested in games that do not have a Steam presence; they are pressuring developers to get games on Steam and insisting that their friends and other rec sources stop recommending them non-Steam games. Sure, GOG has those, too. But the current crop of crowdsourced spammers are trying to put pressure on GOG. "No [PLATFORM], no sale" means exactly nothing for the [PLATFORM] in question.

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Now, GOG's decision is actually obvious.

Suppose you are contracted to paint a fence in a neighborhood, and you have green and blue paint. You think blue looks better, but then you get a call, "Look, if you paint the fence blue, some local racists wil be immensely happy. Just saiyan."
Sure enough, you take your brushes and buckets to the fence, and there's a crowd of people already chanting, "WHITE SKIN, BLUE FENCE! NO BLACKS, NO MUSLIMS! EURO HERALDRY ONLY! KEEP THE BLOOD PURE! WHITE SKIN, BLUE FENCE!"
You turn around, and whoa, there are some counterprotesters: "YES TO PEACE! YES TO UNITY! YES TO GREEN! GREEN LIKE GRASS! GREEN LIKE LEAVES! GREEN LIKE JULY! GREEN LIKE THE FUTURE!"
You say, "Hey folks, you seem sensible. Blue honestly looks better here, and I want to be done wth this shit and go home. Look, it's just paint, paint can't be racist!"
"Maybe it coudn't, yesterday," they say. "But now, if you paint it blue, it will look like you gave in to the racists. So it's either you paint the fence green, or we paint you blue."
"Oh screw it," you say, paint the fence green, get paid and go home.

(Then it turns out the whole mess was instigated by the maker of paint to boost demand.)

not really. gOg have rejected many games I consider as very good before.

As I said in the other thread (because we really need 3 threads on this...):
"I think the metrics are:

If a game I want is not sold on gOg = Censorship
If a game I do not care about is not sold on gOg = Not censorship

Simpels"

Is that not a bit double standards?
At least and [url=http://www.desura.com/games/hatred]Desura sells it.

So, yeah... so much for censorship and repression of freedom of expression. Really it is just "No gOg, no buy"

I don't care about Hatred but I still want to see it here if it's a good game as opposed to not being here on cersorship reasons.
It's more of a principle to me, the game doesn't matter.
Like I already said in my previous post, please read it, there's a big difference between those "standard" rejected games and this "controversial" new game.

Please read my previous post about why I'm not interested in other platforms releases.
Thanks ;)

and by who's standards will you judge this game "good"?

That's make it a self imposed censorship by you, you are censoring yourself. Which is not gOg's fault.

Edit - and as PhenixPsaid also in that other thread, is there a metric on how "controversial" a game has to be for it to become "censorship"? I seem to recall you not actually answering him there....

Looking at that website, I wonder if it's normal for people to hang out on the web and participate in those "Is It Normal?" polls, because the majorities of the votes there really creep me out. I must be a total freak for NOT being full of hatred towards babies, my mother, the chinese, third world countries etc. :P

I am even more dissapointed you decided another shitty thread regarding this subject had to be created.

Well, that's your very own problem then.

Let's face it: It's your decision and no one is preventing you from getting the game DRM-free and playing it. You don't want to support small shops like Desura or the developers of Hatred directly? Fine, but stop complaining about censorship and GOG attacking freedom of speech. That's not what is happening here. It's just you who don't want to buy the game DRM-free anywhere else.

Expect a Femenist Frequency on that game though.

It's also funny how everytime a new game is released, you have a pretty big bunch of people saying stuff among the "GOG should not release these kind of games / Moar classics" lines.

I like Rex Rocket and it was rejected by GOG. Was GOG rejecting it because censorship of because every time a pixel platformer game is released, you get a bunch of "don't release this shit GOG" / "Pfff already owned on Steam, will buy on sale if ever". I remember that some user started a thread with a link to the wishlist to make people aware of the tittle, and many users directly insulted the thread.

But well, if the game rejected is about killing people instead of jumping, I suppose it's OK to start 124781441468 threads of sobbing lads yelling censorship instead of thinking what you wisely said:

Like I said in my previous post, I'm concerned about gog rejecting this game on pure censorship basis and we'll know for sure after the game is released.
If, after that, it is determined that gog rejected it because censorship, then yes, I'll be very upset.
In the meantime I expressed my concerns by sendig them an email with the request to analyze the game as usual, not taking into consideration any censoring.
So we'll see in about a week what's what.

An entity doesn't have to be a government entity in order to be guilty of censorship...

What childish tantrum? I see no childish tantrum. It is all in your head. Is the OP screaming in the super market and breaking things? No. Just because you don't like how someone expresses himself or doesn't like what someone has to say doesn't automatically make it a "childish tantrum". The only one guilty is a childish tantrum is you, low rating people like there is no tomorrow.
Anything is possible. But keep in mind, that the game was accepted by Steam. So maybe it's good enough for Steam but not good enough for GOG? LOL I don't think so.