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Rhonin the wizard said:

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Devotion returns almost two years after a China-centric controversy saw it removed from Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/devotion-returns-almost-two-years-after-a-china-centric-controversy-saw-it-removed-from-steam/
In early 2019 the indie horror game Devotion, which PCG thought was pretty great, was discovered to contain a reference to China's president, Xi Jinping. (...)
Once this was out in the open, things began to go badly wrong for Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games. Chinese players began to review-bomb the game en masse, undeterred by the removal of the offending material. Shortly afterwards the game was pulled from Steam by Red Candle itself.
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Today the developer announced it will be re-releasing Devotion via GOG on December 18.

Update: Earlier today, Red Candle Games announced that its horror game Devotion would be released on GOG. But now, according to a tweet from GOG itself, that is no longer the case.

Glass Bottom Games announced that their game, SkateBIRD, will no longer be released on GOG because of this decision.

That announcement looks more like them trying to get some spotlight for their game than anything else.

Even then, I agree that it's a dick move from CD Projekt and that while I understand that they've just launched Cyberpunk and want it to sell well averywhere (and China is a very big market), they should have thought about it before giving the green light to the game on their store.