What units are these in?

All numbers I extracted are in 'thousand PLN' ~= 260 USD.

Thanks for posting this update!

Based on this, GOG might want to reevaluate their apparent stance that the 10% or so of hard-core DRM supporters they keep pissing off by allowing DRM to creep onto their store don't really matter.

You are a great statesman, indeed, or a great opportuinist. So wrong vision of things is just two options. Mental damage or external interests. and it is valid for the former post.

What a sad thread - one I hoped I'd never ever read, that no-one would ever EVER have the opportunity to write.

Supporting anti-DRM has been the main reason for my purchases over the years. It's the reason I have held out on buying Quake from here because although it's more expensive than on Steam I'd prefer DRM-Free (and my original CD copy of Quake doesn't get me the enhanced version that Steam would get me or that GOG have promised to supply - one day).

Sad. Just sad. I've gone from "I can trust GOG to supply DRM-free" to "I have to pay attention to all the EULA bs and whatnot on a game-for-game basis just like elsewhere, to search out the possibility of bs DRM before (instead of) purchasing the game".

I'm not boycotting. Not yet. But boy, does this issue have me Steamed!

As for offering freebies only to Galaxy users - WTF? Is my money not as good just because I prefer offline installers? Fnark!

It's my birthday in a few hours. I've been mulling over buying "Human Resource Machine" and "7 Billion Humans", as a fan of World of Goo and (to a lesser extent) whatever the "Little Inferno" game was. Twice the price here as they are on steam, I've been debating whether paying twice the price to support a DRM-Only store is worth it. I'm not sure, but it's not worth it for a "DRM-Only-unless-it-suits-us-otherwise" store. I feel Valve's wallet looking forward to getting infinitesimally fatter.

Interesting, thanks for the info.

I thought I'd keep a record of GOG games I would definitely have bought, were it not for my boycott.

GAMES NOT BOUGHT ON GOG IN 2021
(1) 18/1/21: Dread Nautical - $10
(2) 18/1/21: Operencia: The Stolen Sun - $15
(3) 29/1/21: Way of the Samurai 3 Deluxe - $2.5
(4) 29/1/21: Way of the Samurai 4 + DLC - $3.5
(5) 10/2/21: Drakensang - $3
(6) 10/2/21: Commander Keen Complete Pack - $1.5
(7) 10/2/21: XCOM 2 - $4.5
(8) 26/2/21: Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four - $9
(9) 22/3/21: Raji: An Ancient Epic - $12.5
(10) 30/3/21: Worms World Party Remastered - $2
(11) 2/4/21: Steel Rats Original Soundtrack - $1
(12) 29/4/21: Hob - $4
(13) 30/4/21: The 7th Circle - Endless Nightmare - $5
(14) 3/6/21: Warhammer Quest Deluxe - $4.5
(15) 3/6/21: Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times - $10
(16) 9/6/21: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition - $3
(17) 9/6/21: THIEF: Definitive Edition - $6
(18) 9/6/21: Fae Tactics - $12
(19) 9/6/21: Loop Hero - $10
(20) 9/6/21: Styx: Master of Shadows - $2
(21) 14/6/21: Hellpoint Supporter Pack - $4
(22) 18/6/21: Samorost 2 - $1.5
(23) 2/7/21: Revelation - $4.5
(24) 2/7/21: Zyconix - $4.5
(25) 21/7/21: Ticket to Earth - $5
(26) 19/8/21: Tomb Raider: Legend - $1
(27) 19/8/21: Tomb Raider: Anniversary - $1
(28) 19/8/21: Tomb Raider: Underworld - $1
(29) 19/8/21: Tomb Raider GOTY - $4
(30) 19/8/21: Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Imperial Edition Bundle - $13.5
(31) 19/8/21: ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) - $1.5
(32) 6/9/21: Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth + DLC - $3.5

Total not spent on GOG so far: $166

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Additionally, after 11 years of buying nothing but GOG, I have finally decided (in May) to begin buying video games elsewhere --- on Humble Store, Indiegala, Steam, Fanatical, Green Man Gaming, etc. --- as long as they're DRM-free and, more importantly, client-free.

Total spent elsewhere in 2021 so far: $80 (61 games)

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My reasons for boycotting:
(1) GOG does not indicate which games contain single-player elements that require galaxy or an online presence (e.g. Absolver, CP2077), making it impossible to buy client-free games with confidence (I don't care whether or not they sell such games, I just want to know which, so I can avoid them) --- Status: Still waiting for GOG to add some indication of this, e.g. via a search filter or game page field.
(2) A significant number of offline installers are outdated vis-a-vis the galaxy installers, sometimes for months and years --- Status: Since the boycott began this has improved significantly, which seems to indicate that GOG has made an honest attempt to resolve this to some degree, so from my POV, I consider this, for now, to be resolved, assuming it does not deteriorate again.

Maybe another "DRM creep" symptom: In the newest (H1 2021(*)) CDP management report there is a change to the DRM free "core principles" of GOG:
H1 2021(*): 2020 ones (**): So they now restrict their DRM-free to single-player games.
And instead of 'ensure' its now enough to 'strive to ensure'.
(It also says 'gamers' instead of 'games'.)

Note that this is meant for investors and not customers. So unlike random advertisements (or "blue" statements?) on GOG here its subject to financial regulation of at least Poland and USA.

Sources:
(*) page 29 https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2021/09/management-board-report-on-cd-projekt-group-activities-in-h1-2021.pdf
(**) page 69 on https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2021/04/management-board-report-on-the-activities-of-the-cd-projekt-group-and-cdc-projekt-sa-in-2020.pdf
page 29 https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/09/management-board-report-on-cd-projekt-group-activities-in-h1-2020.pdf

Amusing mis-spelling of gamers/games. This is actually a very serious change, though. That is a messages that goes out, loud and clear, to investors and other developers (especially the big bad boys), and the message is that we're not so serious about this DRM-Free malarky any more. Although only a few words are changed, this is a very big change of principle.

I hope more people are taking backup of your games/installers, because they may not remain DRM Free.

Good advice, but be aware that new installers might break for some games/users, or lack content. And now all of them have been “galaxified”. With no way to get old versions, or even check updates, if you have an old installer, probably worth keeping that!

Thanks for posting this. It's definitely concerning and it seems like further confirmation of what we have all known for some time.

Can you and/or someone else please translate all those numbers into USD?

And are you saying that GOG took a financial loss in Q2 2021?

And what does "sales" mean? Is that the total number of all games that were sold on GOG?

Or is that the sum of the financial dollar amount of what the total number of games were sold for?

Or is it something else?

These kinds of things require much better & much more clearly-explained explanations than have been provided in this thread so far.

As already explained by Zrevnur above: "All numbers I extracted are in 'thousand PLN' ~= 260 USD.".

So multiply each number by 260 to get USD amount.

Yes. Also in Q1 2021.

No, it's amount of money in KPLN.

No, it's amount of money in KPLN. Multiply each number by 260 to get USD amount.

Yes.

Hope this helped.

So are you saying that GOG lost $669,760 USD in Q2 2021?