“Gamers” aka angry Chinese nationalists.
So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
https://files.catbox.moe/s0qasq.jpg
Comments
Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I like GoG but… GoG very much has a history of “performative” bullshit.
Some of us still remember The French Monk Incident where they pretended the site was shutting down and let everyone hammer the download servers so they would panic and “learn” why “DRM Free” games were better. The backlash was so bad that it actually led to the addition of a new quest (that totally wasn’t ready to go…) in The Witcher 2 that, if you won a game of dice poker (Gwent before we had Gwent) you would get a Witcher 1 code at GoG.
Also… their definition of “DRM Free” is what us olds would have called “that Stardock GOO shit”
They’ve also had a LOT of “we are going to lose the rights to sell this game so buy it now” FOMO sales. I want to say the Atari games have been through at least four?
And so forth throughout the years. It was more or less guaranteed GoG would do a smut games sale once Steam delisted games. The freebies is a surprise but stuff like House Party is a massive DLC sink and the Postals get given away five with every soda.
So e’rybody saying “Now is the time to let GoG know they were being inconsistent and they will fix everything”: Hey, I got a really great deal on this bridge. And I’ll give you a discount if you pay in whatever “untraceable” crypto kids like this week. Err, but through this site that just gives me fiat currency. No reason.
BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I mean it’s just a cheap PR ploy anyway. Companies are not your friends. They are just as much dependent on payment processors like Mastercard as Steam and Itch. They probably just don’t matter enough to get notice.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The game looks super cool- why wouldn’t they list it? Is horror off limits now too?
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Some in-game graffiti made fun of the CCP.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh Christ, that’s ridiculous.
SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Red Candle Games said that “in the aftermath of the incident, some still possess different speculations about Devotion. As regretful as the incident was, we have to bear its full consequence.
I don’t know if this was an honest mistake, but… 😂
58008@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I haven’t spent a dime on GOG since this happened. Fuck them. Not only is their professed anti-censorship stance fucking laughable in light of the Devotion débâcle, their game preservation efforts are even more laughable when they literally excluded a game from possible preservation because of a hoard of thin-skinned CCP hostages.
Even without that episode I would have stopped using GOG eventually, because they also went against their one selling point - no DRM - more than once. They sold Witcher 3 hard copies with online verification (you had to link it to your account with a serial number, you couldn’t just install it and play it from the disc offline). They included a little card in the box with an apology for this requirement, citing their need to protect their sales. Which is fair enough, but don’t pretend that this isn’t DRM. The fact that it was one of their own games shows how much hypocrisy they have when they complain about other developers doing the same thing. Being able to share the downloaded files freely makes me wonder why they bothered with any DRM, but bother they did.
Then they sold Hitman (2016) which has literally the most egregious and hateful DRM in the history of gaming. If you don’t submit to it, your game is essentially a very expensive demo. Most content and even basic game features like saving and progress tracking is disabled unless you’re connected to the DRM server. GOG users complained and the game was delisted, but the fact remains that they fucking tried. If GOG doesn’t even believe in being anti-DRM anymore, then I see no reason to use their [apparently] CCP-curated games library.
GOG may have started out as a plucky band of disruptors and idealists, but that dream died about 10 years ago. They’re EA cosplaying as Che Guevara. I wouldn’t even mind if they behaved like every other storefront, but it’s the pretence and the morality-washing that makes them especially despicable. I mean EA and Ubisoft aren’t feigning to be motivated by some grand political or societal good; they’re malignant capitalists who would sell their own children, and would tell you as much. GOG dons the robes of a grassroots pinko activist while dancing to the exact same corporate tune.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is a disk copy of Witcher 3 a GOG problem? Also an always on save system sucks, it never made sense when Ubisoft tried it, still makes no sense now. But it’s not DRM, and had nothing to do with GOG.
g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. It is operated by GOG sp. z o.o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt
GOG/CD Projekt made Witcher 3.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How is a disk copy of Witcher 3 a GOG problem?
The company that makes GoG makes Witcher 3.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I just played this game last night! You can get it DRM free from their web site. My partner and I both loved it! Great atmosphere, great story.
zzx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I honestly never knew about this. It makes me so depressed that Valve removed a game for making fun of Xi… I thought they were above that
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
on Steam you can buy the soundtrack but not the game. The soundtrack is listed as a DLC for the base game. How fun
chromodynamic@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
If you want to message them about it, now is the time most likely to work.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’ve played a bit of it ( haven’t finished ) and so far it’s pretty good. I totally wish I didn’t see a playthrough of their other game, Detention, around 2018, so I could go in for a completelt blind playthrough like I am for Devotion.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bought the game a while back, would highly reccomend.
felbane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This entire controversy is from 2020. Spoiler: GOG did not, in fact, relist the game. Red Candle sold it on their own storefront, and both Steam and GOG retained a tally in the “bends over for CCP” column.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Steam didn’t take it down from Steam. The devs did.