KoolAid please consider making this a threadmark and adding the message to the OP. Fucking cowards. Fuck CDPR and fuck the CCP, specially that piece of shit Xi Jinping.
Epic is literally 40% owned by one of the biggest chinese companies on the planet
Because we don't have proof that other storefronts denied the game? We don't know if they applied to get on Steam, Epic etc., only GOG. It was on Steam before with a publisher that decided to take it off the store, not Valve.
Tencent owns almost half of Epic. They would NEVER allow this to be published unless they really want to get into deep shit with CCP back home.
Steam literally pulled it after bunch of bad reviews due to Xi reference. Steam for sure is complicit.
Well for one we don't know who they applied with besides GOG. For two, Steam is not viable because the Chinese publisher that pulled the game originally still likely owns the publishing rights on that platform. Epic is already hated and half the company is owned by Tencent.
Good point.
Technically yes but there is no way Sweeney is going to stick his neck out when it means he could lose that Tencent investment.
This game was pulled from storefronts due to a lack of publisher, and many of them got flack for delisting it in the first place. People are mad at CDP right now because of the hasty announcement of publishing responsibilities and then retraction.
That's a very, very dangerous precedent.
List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Imagine if every platform refused to host these games
so the publisher wanted the game out of Steam, but is okay with GoG?
I don't think CDP actually released a statement announcing the game? It almost seems to me like CDP forgot until Red Candle made the announcement.
Steam has a history of not publishing games with anti-CCP messages in them
gizmodo.com
Here's some context:
Devotion (Chinese: 還願; lit. 'Fulfill a vow') is a first-person psychological horror video gamecreated and developed by Taiwanese game developer Red Candle Games for Steam. It is set in Taiwan in the 1980s, with a majority of the game happening in an apartment complex in Taipei. The game also incorporates elements based on Taiwanese culture and folk religion. The game was released on February 19, 2019, but was removed from Steam shortly afterwards on February 26, after the game was review bombed by Chinese players due to a controversial reference to Xi Jinping.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP]
Devotion (video game) - Wikipedia
Epic is owned by a Chinese company.
It had a full store page and everything that has since been taken down. https://www.gog.com/game/devotion
then can't they self publish on Steam now?
That's fine to say you won't support CDPR games because of the actions made by their parent company, but it's misdirected to say "FUCK CDPR!" when CDPR themselves had no decision over what got published on GOG.
