I also feel dumb for becoming attached to the GOG brand and thinking that they were different from other companies. In the end, they are still a business, so money is top priority. I'm disheartened that I thought they were pro consumer and they really carried that image (ex. The Witcher 3 Nintendo Switch physical version). GOG was my favourite digital storefront and was the only true alternative to Steam in my experience. I left Steam a while ago and stopped purchasing from there because I hated DRM in PC games. GOG brought me back to the good days of the 90s where I'd buy a game and install it on my computer and access it without internet activation. Fast forward and now GOG seems to be increasingly becoming anti-consumer. I'm not a shill. I'm not gonna blindly defend GOG for their deceptions. I hate communism, censorship, political correctness, etc. I hate all that and want none of that being integrated into games. I paid my final price with Cyberpunk 2077. That is going to be the final game that I have purchased. Going forward, I'm no longer gonna support GOG. If this is the end for me PC gaming, then so be it.

So..... good game? :D

I've started backing up all my offline installers. Once that's done, I'll be deleting my account.

I know it will do next to nothing to resist the authoritarian regime of the Chinese government, and I know that I will continue to make other decisions and purchases that enrich their power, so I acknowledge and embrace the hypocrisy required of me to do so. But GOG made a very poor decision and then compounded it by insulting our intelligence in their mealy-mouthed, dishonest PR statement, so... Screw 'em. I will drop them, because I want to. They won't care anyway.

Sadly, I think this may be what I'll do as well. I'm still waiting for some clarification on the issue, but if that doesn't come, it will be hard for me to keep supporting the site.

*modded by Beaubergine.*

Kindly refrain from reviving/necroing old threads.

Kindly refrain from ignoring the issue at hand

This: I find the moral indignation on this particular issue to be hypocritical at best.

Anybody who drives a non-electric car, eats red meat or buy cheap products made in foreign countries (I hope nobody complaining here has an iphone) is applying a double standard on this issue.

Lets be honest, the real worry people are expressing here is growing Chinese influence in the world (I would surmise some posters are being made aware of it in a concrete way for the first time here). That's it.

And this:
I don't see devotion on any game store. I hope people leaving will refrain from purchasing games in the future.

The overwelming majority of corporate entities will bow to the will of a powerful nation state if the request is not downright ruinous.

If you want to impact another nation-state in a significant manner, you need your own nation-state to act (or coalition of thereof in the case of EU).

I think the visibility multi-national corps have has blinded some people about who the main movers of the world are.

If you live in a democracy, your vote has a lot more influence than your money.

Nothing sinister or political about it, GOG favors large markets (so much so that they became completely unfeasible price-wise in some regions) and China is the largest of them all. Basically, this is economic interest, pure and simple.

I can't believe CD Projekt have the nerve to release a video saying how they were built around "honest and direct communication with gamers" during this whole Devotion fiasco, where they have proven the exact opposite. I don't even know what to say any more, this is like a parody

Perception and reality it seems rarely are the same anymore. And that's too bad. Most companies want to be perceived as good when in reality they aren't, but if virtue signaling and lying will get them short term profits they may very well do it, along with releasing incomplete products and patching it later so the last quarter gets a boost for the investors, customers be damned.