GOG Can and does region restrict. I know this for a fact.

Why not just region-restrict Devotion against China and make it available for everyone else.

I presume it's due to Xi Jinping's personal vendeta with Red Candle Games. It doesn't even matter they removed the meme from the game last year. And not hosting the game at all just another cm of tongue up Pooh's ass from CDPR.

It's to show authority. They can't let someone who mocked the leader of the nation get away with it, and doubly so for the fact that the developer is from Taiwan.

That's a great question GOG have yet to answer.

It's an opportunity for supreme leaders to show they have power over the rest of the world. I honestly don't think the CCP or the people of china actually care about the pooh thing. I mean, common, people make fun of leaders all over the world, all the time, and notice i'm not banned for my display image. This is a "maybe we'll let you in our market if you kiss our feet."

It's not like the option wasn't on the table for GOG: they've already done it for other games for other countries.

Funny story: might not be due to the same reasons GOG pulled Devotion, but I once got a 2 week "vacation" for making a very subtle Xinnie the Pooh joke....ya know the same ones people have been making for days now in response to the devotion incident.

I am guessing GOG likely "gave out trips to club GOG" to a few people for such mentions or jokes(or for other related things) behind the scenes, but they probably won't do so for everyone or most as i'm guessing they realllly don't want to "burn too many bridges"(pr wise I mean).

(I know they did so for at least 2 users for making duplicate threads on the topic at hand.....which is odd, as considering that when other issues happened in the past, GOG was a-ok with people making as many threads as they wanted)

Are you sure it wasn't for another reason, like something else you did wrong, and maybe you are mistakenly having the impression that it was because of your Pooh joke?

Is that a possibility?

I'm seeing circumstantial evidence of alts being used as a psychological game, too.

But, hey, i think it's time for more Xinnie the pooh jokes, no? If you can get a 2 week suspension, and gog can pull a game over a game having been permanently stained by a joke that got removed, then by all means imagine if it wasn't isolated cases the CCP had to deal with.

They actually sent me a screenshot back then and very explicit reason behind the "leave from GOG".
I said something about Xinnie the Pooh invading the forums over a game release thread bug....that was about it.
(there was messed up asian script in the release title, so I made a silly joke about Pooh and hunney)

(I only mention it as the recent jokes and avatars brought it back to the front of my mind. Btw I still have the screencap they sent if anyone's interested and wants to see it)

Of course we're interested. Everyone should remember that they're on the chopping block.

Because China got bored after censoring their own people for decades, so now they want to branch out to the rest of the world

Here is what got me a 2 week stay at "Glorious People's Club Gog".

(btw I find it "funny" they gave me a time out for that, yet have no problems playing politics themselves by seemingly giving in to the c-c-p to delist a game so they could make more money)

They seem very inconsistent in how they interact with the forums. My guess is some staff member had a free minute, stumbled upon your post and thought this would be a good opportunity to enforce the "no politics" rule, while most others constantly get away with it, because there is no time for forum moderation or it isn't a priority. And maybe that staff member already had it in for you because of other reasons?

I don't want to make this thread about me(just brought it up because it's somewhat connected to the topic at hand), so i'll say this and switch back to the main topic:

Oh I pretty much am certain that staff are watching me(and some others)....they find any post(even borderline ones) within a very short time. My guess is the mod team gives "special treatment" to a select few here, for one reason or another, to keep us in line...while ignoring the rest of the forums for the most part(unless they get a report).

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Going back to the topic at hand: Imo, GOG's handling of this devotion business is about on par with how they have handled the forum moderation. I think they can(and should) try to do better, for the gamers they claim to care about so much.

(btw i'd use an aptly themed avatar myself, to show support for the devs, but I don't wanna risk another "leave of absence")

(to any staff reading this: I am not questioning mod actions....which I know is a big no no....I am merely giving my opinion on the modding in general)

Way, way better than i was expecting. So, we know what pisses them off.

Seems about right.

You know, that in particular drives me mad. The inability to call out hypocrisy, and such. I get mods don't want to deal with drama reagarding a legitimate issue (maybe someone posting a lewd image of a woman who could be 15, or she could be 18, but no one knows, and everyone wants to pick a side and say the other is unreasonable), but you can't generate a power structure that has no accountability and expect BS not to happen. If the primary method of feedback as a customer is provided by the forums, and if the forums have an overwhelmingly totalitarian authority that cannot be questioned, and I'm not reasonably informed prior to making purchases, i think it's reasonable to poke the (pooh, or gog) bear. In the same way i expect GOG to stand up to china, I'll question mod decisions i don't agree with, even if it's against the rules. If i get banned from the forums, then i can go to places gog advertises and point out why i was banned and the moderation decision that i was questioning that resulted in my ban. I have that right as a customer, even if that becomes prefixed with "former."