GOG.com Backtracks on Devotion Release After Allegedly Receiving “Messages From Gamers”

[Sparky Lurker]

https://twinfinite.net/2020/12/gog-com-devotion-backtrack-release/

Earlier today, Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games announced that it would finally re-release its horror game Devotion on GOG.com.

Just a few hours later, CD Projekt’s digital distribution platform followed up announcing that after receiving “many messages from gamers” they’re not going to list the game in the store.

You can see both tweets below.

https://twitter.com/redcandlegames/status/1339148313032060929

(https://archive.is/yOsSk)

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/1339227388438306817

(https://archive.is/ysypD)

Last year, Devotion and Red Thread Games were hit by controversy after hidden artwork was discovered bringing back the old joke likening general secretary of the Chinese communist party Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh. Such a reference is most definitely unwelcome and ruthlessly censored in China.

This resulted in the game being review bombed on Steam and then removed by Valve, while Red Thread opted not to re-release it in the near term.

After a while, the controversy faded back under the radar, but apparently the developers had not given up on providing their popular games to gamers all over the world.

Many got excited about the game’s return today, while others apparently were “excited” for a different and perhaps less gaming-related reason.

 

[Cantercoin]

Yet another one cucks to the chink menace

 

[Ponchik]

lol fuck cd projekt then

 

[CrunkLord420]

I didn't know CCP bureaucrats counted as "gamers"

 

[Marissa Moira]

Saudi Arabia isn't even this asinine with images of Mohammad internationally.

 

[Lady Adjani]

Don't like it, don't buy it.

Butthurt fucking chinks spoiling the fun for everyone.

 

[Marissa Moira]

If glorious leader can't stand to have his image besmirched it's a clear sign he won't last long.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Just release it somewhere.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

The universal constant of Communists regardless of culture is whining.

 

[Turd Cow]

This resulted in the game being review bombed on Steam and then removed by Valve

Sounds like china recruited some new spys using the tiktok app

Edit: joking aside its literally a bunch of chinese players offended over a meme making fun of GREAT DEAR LEADER AND NOT A DICATOR XI JINGPING

 

[ZehnBoat]

guys, if we say gamers it'll be okay
we'll be the rebels because we were trolled by the evil GAMERS

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Null should open a game trading place to host games banned by other companies for bullshit political reasons.

I mean, in the end, it would only be like Hatred and Devotion, but still...

 

[JamusActimus]

cd ccp project

 

[byuu]

Why not just block it in China?
GOG already does this with other games and other countries.

 

[Friend computer]

So Xi is a gamer?

What's his gamer tag?

 

[Pizdec]

Does Tencent have a stake in CDPR?

 

[Marissa Moira]

The universal constant of Communists regardless of culture is whining.

The sound of helicopter blades tends to drown it out.

 

[Dysnomia]

guys, if we say gamers it'll be okay
we'll be the rebels because we were trolled by the evil GAMERS

How cowardly. Just say Chinese. What do they call the people that are paid to post pro-China stuff? Wumao?

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Who cares? It probably isn't even good.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Apparently they got threatened to have Cyberpunk get pulled from China if they didn't comply.