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felbane, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

This entire controversy is from 2020. Spoiler: GOG did not relist the game. Red Candle sold it on their own storefront, and both Steam and GOG retained a tally in the “bends over for CCP” column.

Ulrich,
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Steam didn’t take it down from Steam. The devs did.

Ephera, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

For me, it was Skyrim. It was one of the first games I bought with my own money and certainly the first where I followed the news before the release. I did not know that Todd Howard was a notorious liar and that ruined the game for me. Like, the game itself was probably fine. It was an upgrade in some ways and a downgrade in various other ways. But having been promised that it would be so much better than Oblivion and Morrowind, when it was simply not, that just robbed me of the fun I could have had with it.

PlaidBaron,
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Nothing beats Morrowind. I will die on this hill.

Zahille7, do games w Evo Las Vegas 2025 wrap-up

Anyone have any thoughts on the vendor/show floor? I didn’t go, but I know one company was supposed to have a big presence there this year - Pixel Empire

AstralPath, do games w Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?

I played in a Halo 2 tournament at my local theater when I was a kid. Got second place. Won a wristband 👍

JTskulk, do games w Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?

I played in a UT2004 tournament at SCALE or LinuxWorld back in the day. I got 2nd or third place and won a Sun backpack and some other swag. First place was a whole ass Sun computer. I played a few Starcraft 2 tournaments but I hate competing in it. It’s a lot of waiting, playing on far servers with worse ping, and playing against much better people a lot of the time.

EarlGrey, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Oblivion.

Daggerfall was awesome and Morrowind blew me away. Going into Oblivion I had the highest hopes. Bought the Collectors Edition, took the day off…and biggest disappointment from a game ever. Granted I like Skyrim. Not as much as Daggerfall or Morrowind, but far more than Oblivion. So I guess it didn’t kill the franchise for me.

Bonus popular game that actually killed the franchise for me: GTA4. I loved the Trilogy, but I could not stand IV. All the main characters annoyed the piss out of me, the driving and gun play weren’t nearly as fun…I tried to play it but got burned out around 1/3rd of the way in. Tried to play GTA5 a few years ago and I felt burned out after 40 minutes.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Man, GTA IV is my favorite, and GTA V is my least favorite, and largely for the same reason: the main characters.

In IV, I really liked Niko and wanted him to succeed. I really didn’t like Roman, but I could relate since everyone has that annoying cousin. I just really wanted Niko to succeed at having a second chance in LC.

In V, I hated Michael, Trevor felt shallow (more backstory could’ve helped), and Franklin was a disappointment (what happened to his dream of owning a business?). Maybe they’re fleshed out more in GTA Online, but I never played it. Honestly, I was fine with them all dying since they all seemed like a waste of space, yet I had to play as them. Franklin was the least disappointing, but I really wanted him to have some interesting side content instead of an attempt of a story w/ his friend that ultimately went nowhere.

GTA SA is mu favorite because CJ’s arc is just so good.

bitwolf, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

on Steam you can buy the soundtrack but not the game. The soundtrack is listed as a DLC for the base game. How fun

AceFuzzLord, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

I’ve played a bit of it ( haven’t finished ) and so far it’s pretty good. I totally wish I didn’t see a playthrough of their other game, Detention, around 2018, so I could go in for a completelt blind playthrough like I am for Devotion.

Soapbox, do games w Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?

Summer of 2005. Played one round of CS Source on stage at CPL. We lost.

v4ld1z, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Gonna be controversial but Monster Hunter World for me. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the game a lot at first and put 100+ hours into it. But it marked the departure from the silly, cozy, slightly under-the-radar franchise to something that’s just too big for my tastes. I feel like each entry is trying to top its predecessor in new mechanics, bigger maps and stuff and end up getting lost in the sauce.

I started playing on PSP with Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite and moved over to 3DS when the games came out for that. The games were never unpopular per se, especially in Japan where they’ve been a staple since the PSP days, but they always felt a little more niche and unknown. They felt more focused, more streamlined, tighter. All the new combat mechanics added in newer installments definitely help the fluidity of the gameplay and add a lot of fun and variety. But that’s it for new additions that I’d miss when going back to older titles. These huge open-world-esque maps just don’t cut it for me.

Rise would likely have been last MH that I could enjoy since it’s a good mix of classic MH with good QoL features added in to make the game more modern, but even that one didn’t quite catch my attention for too long.

I don’t know, I feel like Monster Hunter kinda lots its charme in chasing industry trends of open world games and more realistic graphics and physics in favour of character, silliness, and focus.

robocall, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history
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Gaymer

Soupbreaker,

I know someone with this vanity plate!

FuyuhikoDate, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

OK… I read nearly every comments and nothing Pointe out what it was about… Fine i gonna look it up, myself, like a 90s kid with a dial up modem… Thankd for nothing GOG!

samus12345,
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daggermoon, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

I bought the game a while back, would highly reccomend.

58008, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.
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I haven’t spent a dime on GOG since this happened. Fuck them. Not only is their professed anti-censorship stance fucking laughable in light of the Devotion débâcle, their game preservation efforts are even more laughable when they literally excluded a game from possible preservation because of a hoard of thin-skinned CCP hostages.

Even without that episode I would have stopped using GOG eventually, because they also went against their one selling point - no DRM - more than once. They sold Witcher 3 hard copies with online verification (you had to link it to your account with a serial number, you couldn’t just install it and play it from the disc offline). They included a little card in the box with an apology for this requirement, citing their need to protect their sales. Which is fair enough, but don’t pretend that this isn’t DRM. The fact that it was one of their own games shows how much hypocrisy they have when they complain about other developers doing the same thing. Being able to share the downloaded files freely makes me wonder why they bothered with any DRM, but bother they did.

Then they sold Hitman (2016) which has literally the most egregious and hateful DRM in the history of gaming. If you don’t submit to it, your game is essentially a very expensive demo. Most content and even basic game features like saving and progress tracking is disabled unless you’re connected to the DRM server. GOG users complained and the game was delisted, but the fact remains that they fucking tried. If GOG doesn’t even believe in being anti-DRM anymore, then I see no reason to use their [apparently] CCP-curated games library.

GOG may have started out as a plucky band of disruptors and idealists, but that dream died about 10 years ago. They’re EA cosplaying as Che Guevara. I wouldn’t even mind if they behaved like every other storefront, but it’s the pretence and the morality-washing that makes them especially despicable. I mean EA and Ubisoft aren’t feigning to be motivated by some grand political or societal good; they’re malignant capitalists who would sell their own children, and would tell you as much. GOG dons the robes of a grassroots pinko activist while dancing to the exact same corporate tune.

KiwiTB,

How is a disk copy of Witcher 3 a GOG problem? Also an always on save system sucks, it never made sense when Ubisoft tried it, still makes no sense now. But it’s not DRM, and had nothing to do with GOG.

g0nz0li0,
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GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. It is operated by GOG sp. z o.o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt

GOG/CD Projekt made Witcher 3.

WolfLink,

How is a disk copy of Witcher 3 a GOG problem?

The company that makes GoG makes Witcher 3.

KiwiTB,

Sure… But disks are not part of GOG and have nothing to do with it. It would be like complaining a corner store sold you can of coke for 10 bucks but the coke vending machine outside says $1.

vane, do gaming w A small moment in gaming history

This one’s funny.
gamesradar.com/microsoft-suspends-mans-account-be…

And yet MS doesn’t mind “The Ballad of Gay Tony” on the Xbox Live Marketplace… maybe it should ban Rockstar?

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