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GoG decides to not publish Devotion after "messages from gamers"
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That is like a parody tweet! There is zero chance this is because of gamers. Also, who doesn't publish a game because some gamers don't want it? By that logic nothing would ever be published.
Yep what I think too. Theyre not gonna say that out loud. China is going to be a huge problem for the videogame industry if nothing is done, and theres not much you can do as long as devs and stockholders keep taking their blood money.
It actually is a Detetion Netflix show, so we probably thought about the same thing.
There is both a Detention show and a Detention movie, but unfortunately no adaptation of Devotion yet.
It's pretty obvious Valve doesn't want the game on their platform. Why else would the new release have been exclusive to GOG in the first place?
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But the dev's original tweet said GOG was "publishing" it so maybe there was more that was lost there (having a partnership with a storefront is important).
Theoretically it could go on itch, but itch is a small company run by a handful of people and they may not have the bandwidth to handle the inevitable shitstorm that would come from hosting a game as controversial as Devotion.
Worth noting that Spencer Hayes, who handles business stuff for itch, posted this recently and then very quickly deleted it:
Which to me says they're at least looking into it but I would not be shocked at all if nothing comes of it (hence the quick deletion).
How can we know if no one says anything? They are not breaking any agreement by saying that they got denied by Steam, plenty of devs have. I'd love it if they told us if it's the case so we rightfully can sling shit their way too.
They are the biggest bullshitters. Nobody believes a vague statement like that.
If you meant the tweet in the OP, it wasn't showing up for me for a second, but it's back.
I would assume because the rights and publishing management for this game has become a nightmare to deal with. GOG took it upon themselves as a headliner for their store, and were in fact the new publisher IIRC, but has of course backed out. Valve doesn't go out of their way to court "darlings" and publish games themselves.
That said, if the rights and publishing situation was "resolved" to a degree where the game was resubmitted to be sold on Steam, I do genuinely wonder if Valve would host it again.
It's been crumbling for awhile now. They've been showing their ass on social media for months, but largely got a pass because they had a huge game coming out.
what were they doing? i hadn't followed anything on cyberpunk until right before launch.
Posting transphobic shit and leaning into GamerGate talking points.
I think it's best for everyone if CD Project Red fucked off into the sea and died a quiet death at this point.
Eurogamer have a decent summary of events.
It's wild that they've pissed off everyone. They need restructuring. Awful company.
CDPR is a transphobic company. It's time we stop making excuses for them.
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The threadmarked stuff in the OP, the ones posted in the replies to you, trying to pin refunds onto MS and Sony, there's a long list.
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Honestly, to me it's wild that the "we care about YOU!" facade lasted this long. Their marketing department has always been blatant pandering.
Please, explain. If you're going to make a post like this I would hope you're willing to back yourself up.
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Why's that? Seems to me like they're getting their comeuppance.
I'm sure you have a very reasonable and measured reason for posting this
...what was even the point of allowing it on the store then? Were they like "I'm sure chinese folks won't mind this time" or something?
oh sure, i knew about those. the assume gender, helicopter and peeing on gaming journalism tombstone tweets. pretty sure it's been known for years not months about their transphobic/garbage social media posts and little internal action against them. it's more that those are things that "gamers" probably don't care about unlike buggy / broken games or raging against an easy target like the ccp and inclusivity was never really their selling point for their games or platform - the whole gamer first dog and pony show was.
As been told several times, they removed it themselves. There is no info regarding if they have resubmitted the game or anything like that.
So what are your arguments against criticizing CDPR over all they have done up to this point?
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
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Okay, this explains things. I watched a playthrough of this on YouTube. It looked like an interesting game. I am sad that China can just put its foot down like this.
The statement comes across as very cowardly. They seem to be really good at passing the buck to someone else. They did the same with the refunds for CP2077.
I consider bigotry towards LGBT+ gamers and other marginalized communities to be anathema to anyone who claims they are "gamers first".