Not sure if this is the case but please don't forget that GOG also has legal contracts with all of their publishers and it might be that they want GOG to play it safe so they won't get in any trouble. Of course that is just an assumption. I will see if I can find out anything more about the issue that I can tell you. Like said before I can just reassure you that they are actively trying to make the situation better and I was told a few details about the "how" I unfortunately are not allowed to disclose. This is not over for me as well since I hate censorship with a pasion.

I am here with you as well regarding the "principles" part. How can I believe somebody who is dropping one principle after another? However there are (like usually) two sides of the medal. If you stick to all of your principles but in the end are losing what was the base of those principles (meaning the busness itself) what use are these principles then? GOG never wanted to drop any of those principles and they assured us several times that DRM-free will never fall. If you think a bit about it a bit more the second principle "no regional pricing" is also still kind of intact since at least they are offering store credit for the difference (which is much more Steam ever did). I still don't like it but it seems as if there's no real way around it when it comes to newer games if you take into consideration that every publisher could go Steam only instead to have regional prices assured. According to GOG most classic games still don't have regional prices. The last principle according to the front page is "Money back guarantee" and I never had any difficulties with that.

This imo depends on the definition of DRM (and this was discussed as well when we were there) which seems to be a bit different for everyone. In case you are saying that DRM-free is meaning not to be online at all real MP is out of the question. As long as the game however has a working SP mode it still can be played offline therefore I would consider it still DRM-free (It's still the same game there are just a few features that requires me to be online but I don't have to use them to enjoy the game the same). Is it possible for you to give me DRM-free MP examples? What do you consider being "DRM-free" exactly?

I have no counter argument for this at this moment.

"We" also cannot tell anybody what actualy WILL happen we can only tell what they told us (or at least part of this) and hopefully we can do a bit more than simply saying "we cannot tell you anything but we are aware" which often is GOGs reply. If however GOG would WANT to leave the customers in the dark there would not be a reason for this whole Q&A at all. If they only had wanted our input we could have skipped to the point where they were asking US questions and they also could simply have sent us an e-mail or sth. Hovewer before it came to that point it was the other way around and we were asking them (with discussions of course). Of course you just cannot be sure about any of this before they finally changed the things. When they have done the things they told us when we have gone from talking to doing ... before that nothing is a guarantee. I completely understand that what we are doing here is nothing more than trying to shed a bit more light on the whole situation.