@Th3solution you know what game I had my eye on that had gone completely dark? As a result I've forgotten the name, but you play a postal delivery worker in a small town. Quite cartoony graphics. No idea when it's coming out big it looked so peaceful and calming.
@TheIdleCritic I don’t recall that game specifically, but it looks like just what you need right now.
I cranked up a Telltale game the other day (the much forgotten and one of the final nails in the coffin, Guardians of the Galaxy) when I was burned out on ‘twitchy button mashing intense combat.’ I’ve always been a sucker for Telltale even though the games look like garbage and play like a high school kid’s computer science project. Give me a nice story, some easy dialogue choices, and a few QTE’s mixed in and I’m good for a while as my stamina recharges.
If things weren’t bad enough for CDPR, they’ve just kowtowed to the CCP and blocked Devotion from being listed on GOG. All because they snuck in jokes about Xi Jinping that were patched out last year and are a Taiwanese team. That in turn led the devs behind SkateBIRD to pull their game from GOG as well, citing solidarity with their fellow indie devs. Rather ironic given the subject matter of Cyberpunk.
@nessisonett Yeah I saw this and it's annoying as I quite fancy trying devotion. The thing is, even I knew about the controversy from China regarding it. Obviously they were going to draw the ire of China with it and get a lot of issues. Not saying they should not release the game but it can't have been a surprise. A real shame.
Now I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I am not sir, and that sir, is an idiot
I just wanted to say thank you for your help, support and advice in that other thread which I've now deleted. The citizens advice bureau didn't seem too helpful to use at first but the resources they provided me really helped me gain a reasonable perspective on the situation and formulate a constructive and measured approach to resolution.
Without being too specific, I managed to rally the troops and encourage them to voice their misgivings. I voiced my own issues too and offered constructive solutions. I ended up actually rewriting parts of the agreement so it benefits all parties and these changes have been accepted. Which sounds a bit insane really but I was happy to do it just so the matter could be resolved.
And now my week of stress and sleepless nights are now over! Thank you all
@ralphdibny You were able to rewrite it? Fantastic. I'm glad you were able to make things a but more palatable.
@nessisonett That's it! It looks really cool. A nice little jaunt. Says Q2021 at the moment. Hopefully sooner than later.
There's another game by some mates in Australia called Unpacking. The premise is, well, unpacking boxes. It's more fun than it sounds! Should be out soon.
@Th3solution Sometimes one needs that. I always go back to the Sims 2.
@ralphdibny That’s brilliant! I’m really glad things worked out. Much of the time employers write employment particulars and employee handbooks without the appropriate level of knowledge, which can lead to problems down the line. Often there isn’t a genuine desire to do wrong by their employees, so it’s great that they were receptive to your concerns. You should be really proud of yourself for improving things for you and your colleagues. 😀
@TheIdleCritic that's the craziest thing about it to be honest but I think that's why they were more receptive, because I'd already done the work for them. Pending approval and minor changes, it just became a copy and paste job for them.
@mookysam thank you! I hope my colleagues feel the same lol. I think the main problem that it was just boilerplate (I think that's the correct terminology) and not specific enough. So even if I haven't made stuff better, I am glad I've made it so it doesn't get any worse. They've left one bit in that's not allowed but it can be lawfully ignored according to official government guidance and I've made people aware of that so they can act accordingly.
@ralphdibny Awesome stuff. Sorry I there wasn't anything I could contribute to help but it looks like far more knowledgable people than me got you a pretty good outcome!
@Thrillho cheers, no problem, it's not an easy thing to give advice on anyway! I'm glad cooler heads prevailed though as most of my workplace disagreements involve a lot of effin and blindin!
@RogerRoger cheers! Yep had a good sleep this morning followed by a woodland walk with my partner where I talked like a pirate (which probably means I was in a good mood but a little bored lol)
Well, I just decided to see what's new by going to the PS Store on my computer. It's so bad. Trying to browse is impossible. There's no way to look at new games past a small time frame, no way to sort games, nothing. I'm amazed they've still got this store up honestly.
CD Projekt is run by cowards, apparently. Why even agree to a host a game like this, which was always going to be a controversial move for Chinese nationalists, if you're just going to buckle at the first threats of reprisal?
I regret giving GOG my money for as long as I have.
@Ralizah The absolute gall of GOG stuns me. This is after years of the site’s Twitter making ‘jokes’ about trans people, making MeToo ‘jokes’, their PR was even run by a guy with ties to GamerGate! They’ve spent a good long while espousing the whole ‘anti-PC gone mad’ attitude and yet they’re perfectly OK with pulling a game because the CCP told them to? They’ll defend Ion Fury amidst that game’s multiple controversies but not Devotion despite them both having patched out language that offended somebody? I wonder what the difference is between those two situations, one involving the use of the word ‘fagbag’ with the devs running an outright bigoted Discord and the other involving a Winnie The Pooh reference about a world leader? The real kick in the teeth is that the WHOLE SCHTICK of GOG is ‘we offer full DRM-free downloads to avoid delistings and the like’ and they’ve cancelled the game’s release before it came out! I hope more devs follow the SkateBIRD devs’ lead and pull their games. Good riddance.
@nessisonett I'm not even giving them the benefit of the doubt in that regard: it was probably bots and outrage on Weibo that scared them. This was just SUCH a dumb move. Literally two seconds of research into Devotion will tell you that any company who picks it up for distribution is going to be bullied by Chinese nationalists for it. Picking this game up would require both moral clarity and a stiff backbone, neither of which are possessed by the suits heading this company.
Did, like, one guy make this deal without consulting the rest of the company first?
Anyway, I do hope more developers pull their games as well. All that "pro-consumer" posturing and edgelord marketing for their games and they wet themselves at the merest whiff of controversy over a game totally undeserving of the poor treatment it has received.
@nessisonett Wow! Yeah, they're betting hard on that Chinese market. No wonder they capitulated so quickly. Although that still doesn't explain why the arrangement was ever made in the first place.
I'll admit I almost did a spit-take when I read: "CDPR has a good reputation in China as a competent developer that takes the time to create masterpiece titles." They might want to delay that launch as far into the future as possible.
As to posting tweets? Just click directly on the tweet you want to share and then paste the link, like so:
Wow the GOG-Devotion controversy has even spread here. Well I'll owe up to the fact that I bought 5 games on GOG yesterday because they were on sale there but weren't so on Steam, and since I'm a Chinese chick... OK I guess I'll say no more.
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