Chielus86: "A Polish company, during a time of democracy, is bowing to a the Communist Party of another nation."

The above is the TL/DR for those who only seek headlines. For others, here is the big wall of text:
CDPR is a Polish company. The country of Poland has a rich and well documented history when it comes to communism and what it has done to the nation. The countless dead, poverty and the loss of cultural identity are all real things that happened there. For those who know history, know that this is the natural outcome of communism.

Yes, I have products of China in my home, there is no avoiding it. But if I can help it, I do anything in my power to put it to a absolute minimum. I can help myself when it comes to gaming, mainly retro gaming, to avoid giving money to China or even power. Now we are at the point that a Polish company, disregarding their own history, is actively seeking positive feedback from communist China. Being a guy that studies history, my stomach turned in a bad way.

So yeah, leaving GoG as I cannot do business with communists or communist sympathizers.

Let's end with a positive though, I'm glad I could download my games to put them on my own backup server. This part of GOG has always been awesome and during a break-up, makes it that much easier to leave.

Have a great day all.

Mugiwarah: The problem is it's too late to completly remove China, you can reduce it a little, but not completely remove the influence on the market. And let's be realistic for a second no store would cut hundreds of Millions of potencial custumers for 1 game. I personaly would prefer that they put the game in here even if i don't care about this game but i don't like censorship but they are a business and it's the most logical move to do for them.

vsr: But that is exactly what USA is doing to Russia. And you're OK with that.
When China is doing that stuff to you, you became mad. Why?

Orkhepaj: i didnt know im murican , oh cool i go and vote biden it is never too late as it seems

so what usa did to your country? oh wait did they send arms to ukrain to help them defend themselves?
what are russians doing there anyway? oh i know you russians think you can just puppet every country to do your wishes ,disgusting behaviour

Orkhepaj: i didnt know im murican , oh cool i go and vote biden it is never too late as it seems

so what usa did to your country? oh wait did they send arms to ukrain to help them defend themselves?
what are russians doing there anyway? oh i know you russians think you can just puppet every country to do your wishes ,disgusting behaviour

Chielus86: "A Polish company, during a time of democracy, is bowing to a the Communist Party of another nation."

The above is the TL/DR for those who only seek headlines. For others, here is the big wall of text:
CDPR is a Polish company. The country of Poland has a rich and well documented history when it comes to communism and what it has done to the nation. The countless dead, poverty and the loss of cultural identity are all real things that happened there. For those who know history, know that this is the natural outcome of communism.

Yes, I have products of China in my home, there is no avoiding it. But if I can help it, I do anything in my power to put it to a absolute minimum. I can help myself when it comes to gaming, mainly retro gaming, to avoid giving money to China or even power. Now we are at the point that a Polish company, disregarding their own history, is actively seeking positive feedback from communist China. Being a guy that studies history, my stomach turned in a bad way.

So yeah, leaving GoG as I cannot do business with communists or communist sympathizers.

Let's end with a positive though, I'm glad I could download my games to put them on my own backup server. This part of GOG has always been awesome and during a break-up, makes it that much easier to leave.

Have a great day all.

RafaelRamus: I don't think it is the most logical move to them. They are counting on Westeners to do all the talking and criticizing and then not acting on it, because if we do, there is no comparing how much money the Chinese have vs everyone else (everyone else has way more money and it is a bigger market).

Don't forget that if China is a billion we are many times that. Heck, Europe and North America alone are a billion!

But to me the most infuriating part - and the one I am mad enough about to actually stop supporting the site - is the way they communicated the thing. "Many gamers"? What am I, a joke to them? Tell us the truth! Come on, GOG, Say what you have to say at least, damn it!

Mugiwarah: The problem of boycoting GOG is the risk to make the only drm free store shutting down as it's not as popular as steam, we should find another way to say that we disagree with them, and if they don't listen you can do wathever you ever you want without condamning them for a bad move.

Enebias: The amount of imbecility in this forum is staggering.
A company didn't bow to a foreign "communist" government. First of all, because China isn't communist -they might they so in their propaganda, but it's just a totalitarian capitalism-of-state, where local corporation act with full government support.
They bent to "capital". Chinese money is money, they calculated that the losses from that market would far surpass the gains from Devotion's sales and they cut it out, like every single other corporation in the world would have.
It's still bad, but it's systemic - the political statement isn't "we approve tyranny", but "we'll do anything if it makes us richer".

CDProjekt actions are disgusting, and I have been saying this before it was cool; remeber all the shit you guys threw at me back when Cyberpunk wasn't even out? When I was talking about workers exploitment, broken promises and whatnot? Well, you can eat all that shit back now, you hypocrites.

Orkhepaj: China isn't communist -they might they so in their propaganda, but it's just a totalitarian capitalism-of-state, where local corporation act with full government support.
that is communism

Enebias: No, it isn't.
Communism is when the means of production are common property of the same workers that use them.
Indisputable fact; if you heard anything else, you heard false information, and in general mass media is revoltingly ignorant on the matter -or maliciously intetioned to bend facts for their own agenda.
Communism has never been even attempted in a grand scale, it's more an utopia, a fantasy rather than anything concrete. Lenin first completely corrupted the ideal.
Corporations aren't even thinkable in a true communist philosophy, they're fictitious entities made out of capital, ffs. There's nothing more anti-communist than that.

In China workers get nothing, only the oligarchs holding the rains have really authority.

Enebias: No, it isn't.
Communism is when the means of production are common property of the same workers that use them.
Indisputable fact; if you heard anything else, you heard false information, and in general mass media is revoltingly ignorant on the matter -or maliciously intetioned to bend facts for their own agenda.
Communism has never been even attempted in a grand scale, it's more an utopia, a fantasy rather than anything concrete. Lenin first completely corrupted the ideal.
Corporations aren't even thinkable in a true communist philosophy, they're fictitious entities made out of capital, ffs. There's nothing more anti-communist than that.

In China workers get nothing, only the oligarchs holding the rains have really authority.

Enebias: No, it isn't.
Communism is when the means of production are common property of the same workers that use them.
Indisputable fact; if you heard anything else, you heard false information, and in general mass media is revoltingly ignorant on the matter -or maliciously intetioned to bend facts for their own agenda.
Communism has never been even attempted in a grand scale, it's more of an utopia, a fantasy rather than anything concrete. Lenin first completely corrupted the ideal.
Corporations aren't even thinkable in a true communist philosophy, they're fictitious entities made out of capital, ffs. There's nothing more anti-communist than that.

In China workers get nothing, only the oligarchs holding the rains have real authority.

Chielus86: This comment hurts, mainly because it is true, as happens with most true words. Yes, I do have a steam account and no, I haven't purchased anything last few years. If Steam had the (again: great policy) of downloading your games DRM free as GoG does, I would have left it years ago.