My assumption would be that it was a reference to the 17th century Swedish Empire, which IIRC was on both sides of the slave cage as their fortunes changed. Yes that's right class, not all that long ago the Scandinavians were actually pretty hardcore. Then their main dude got boom headshotted during a battle and it all went to pot. At least he died doing what he loved.

More of a what then a who. Translated into English from Mandarin chinese it's "50 cent army." For those who don't know, the Communist regime occupying the chinese mainland literally employs a literal army of trolls that are paid roughly about 50 cents a day, and send thousand of spam, and attack posts onto various web communities a day and are given assignments to harass people and businesses online for, well basically any thing that the communist regime deems worthy harassing people over, ranging from critizing the communist regime to sometimes reasons it's just plain unclear what motivation if any there can be. These are usually western institutions such as universities, news sites, social networking sites, and increasingly commercial businesses existing both on and offline that have employees that criticize the communist regime's human rights record, engage in business with Taiwanese registered corporations, or decry communist censorship, or refuse to enter into blatantly unfair contractsd with communist state run corporations already stealing their intellectual property.

They are some of the only people in the country who have access to marginally unrestricted internet, and specifically for purposes of this harassment, too.

Devotion's removal from various game selling sites is a clear objective of the Womoa, as it meets many of tthe criterria that have previously seen this literal army of paid trrolls'd deployment: it's made by a Taiwanese corrporation, it contains content seemingly critical of the communist regime, and just as importantly, it's been targeted several times in the past by the wamao.

Now the reason why a lot of people, myself included are upset is simply put, every time someone adheres to demands made by the wamao, this invites further harassment. The Wamao's pay masters in the PDRC's ministry of defense are least somewhat grounded in reality: An institution that refuses to give in to demands will eventually after a time maybe experience an at worst token halfhearted attempted denial of serrvice attack then ultimately be left alone.

One that gives in will inevitably see further, and more and more and outrageous demands made, usually starting with removal of other content, usually until the institution undergoes such dire financial strraits that a communist state run corporation can buy out a controlling interest.

Essentially the whole purpose is to enable economic warfare against the west by subverting, and gutting it's financial and cultural insttitutions.

Simply put, if we give up on getting Devotion relisted, it's only going to be a matter of time before more games get removed, possibly for no other reason then to convince the wamao who've previously successfully extorted them once that they're now compliant and gog.com as well as it's parent company CD Projekt end up nothing more then tools to fund this further incursion.

This is *WHY* we need to put pressure on to get Devotion back. We aren't just talking about a single indie developer here. We're talking pretty much everything on the platform being at risk.

The line must be drawn here.

Indeed. Some of us Germans insist on being on the wrong side of history no matter what. It's always the same.

I get what you're referring to. That came to my mind also, but it's still nonsensical. It's like saying: 'Well, that's rich coming from someone from the Czech Republic' or I don't know... Finland, when refering to totalitarian regimes and concentration camps. Man needs to get hold of his agencies, and make a more coherent point.

Aww... No TROLLS see I was right!

Their parent company is.

How else would we have all the old "EA is going to make a hostile takeover over CDPR and GOG!" rumors?