GOG guide is tormented by shame for deploying the Taiwanese horror Devotion many years ago
The GOG digital PC game store has admitted, more than five years later, that its decision to suddenly withdraw the horror game Devotion from sale seriously undermined user confidence.
Devotion is a Taiwanese psychological horror game set in the 1980s. The game received high marks from critics, but was removed from Steam after a scandal involving offensive references to PRC Chairman Xi Jinping. The developers from Red Candle Games insisted that the problematic element was a temporary placeholder, apologized and removed it. After that, GOG announced its intention to release the game, but on the same day abandoned the decision, citing "comments from players."
According to the managing director of the site, Maciej Golembiewski, the choice was then dictated by real business constraints, a lack of understanding of complex geopolitical factors, and the absence of "good options."
Looking back, we recognize: this decision and the way we communicated it quite legitimately undermined confidence in us.
Mr. Golembiewski recalled the case with Devotion against the background of the hype around the provocative horror Horses.
