@Leroux: See first part of my answer.
MarkoH01: 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 can understand your stance on that, but let me ask you this.
Do you know the companies called Laserparadise and Astro? They sold (maybe still do, I don't know) DVDs of "bad/$131" movies (the ones that got censored and VERBOTEN ;) for being to violent), but none of those people got to jail for that. And both persons responsible for those are known german residents.
So I highly doubt anything will ever happen to GOG. Still my question is unanswered why Amazon can do such things.
MarkoH01: 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.
As said before, I don't think that is a way to do a discussion. We had to do what we did, because otherwise we were no more. This way I could argue DRM-free and optional Galaxy software away. We had to do it.
Not convincing to me.
MarkoH01: 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?
Best solution (though this will never happen) is a multplayer part where everyone can be/install the dedicated server.
An other solution, hopefully more viable, would be to add the needed multiplayer parts directly into the game.
And an other thing are games, I think I read Absolver in this or another thread, where you the singleplayer campain more or less needs online connection, to get the complete content. These should never be release here.
MarkoH01: "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.
As I said, it is NOT your job to tell me/ the customers what GOG is doing, so I will not make you responible.
GOG should come forward and make a bi-monthly news/video what are they working on. This will cost a view minutes (for a news post), but we see that a) they are working on this and that and b) they still give a fuck besides just making a quick buck.
I sitll don't understand why GOG can't come forward and they "we plan to change forum in the next 3 months" or something like that. And if something blocks this, why not say "we encountered this and that" (and name these things, not just some mystical indications.
And regarding your question "why invite us". My simple answer would be "public relations". You got told what GOG wanted you to hear and you can come hear and create a positive "vibe", but as 1-2 others said before, I'm not buying that. There is a saying ... "Seeing is believing".
One last thing: I don't see myself as someone who would ever get invited, but if, I would have never signed a NDA, because either they want an open discussion or not. This all adds up to the image of GOG I have grown accustomed to.
EDIT: One thing I forgot. You got told that there will be an option to make the "classic installiers" the default option. Funny thing is that I got an answer from german support "the other day" that no such thing is planned.
