I tried. Several times. Through several mods and through support. Even reducing the requests down to a very simple one: remove the DRM from the Cyberpunk rewards, for starters, to show that they mean to return to DRM-free. Some didn't reply at all. The others said "we can't do anything about this ourselves, but our superiors are aware of the situation."

And that's all. From time to time I politely ask whether there is any new development, but the (non-)reactions stay the same.

The thing is that for a boycott to be successful it needs two things :

1. A significant enough number of peoples following it (significant either in number or by noise)

and, probably the most important :

2. A clear goal.

And while we can argue on the former, this "boycott" definitely totally lack the later; look at this thread it ranges from selling Devotion to unfriend Tim Sweeney on facebook , this thread is not a boycott thread it's a venting thread where anybody having any sort of grief against Gog or CDPR comes to vent.

Even if Gog decided to "do something" they wouldn't have any clue where to start as they wouldn't know who boycott them for what reason and whenever or not what they would be doing would be enough or not. For this boycott to have any chance of ever being successful it should have concentrated on one, maximum two, similar goals, not on a whole shopping list of them.

Thant being said I honestly don't think that Gog issues have anything to do with this boycott, it's not the first time Gog has similar issue, in 2019 they already let go 10% of their employees. I think that if anything it's the continuation of EPIC screwing it up for everybody by forcing store to lower their margins.

GOG is by far the most consumer friendly digital distribution service out there, there is no reason why it should be 'losing' money. The only way it can, is if upper management is screwing up somehow. Just yesterday I made a vow to never purchase a game from Steam or the Epic Game Store again, due to the presence of DRM. I'm not as big a gamer as I used to be, so the current library will serve me well for a while, but the lack of Capcom and Square Enix releases is a bummer for me personally. I want to buy titles like Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, DRM-free on GOG, but for whatever reason these titles just aren't here.

I don't know if that can be chocked up to GOG management dropping the ball or what, but I definitely think more 'needs' to be done if GOG is to continue. Sure, it is the place for 'Good Old Games', but it can be so much more than that and it should be more than that. I want DRM-free gaming to 'stick', I don't want Steam and other draconian DRM measures to win the war, and thus saddle gamers with glorified rentals forever.

What GOG is doing is ludicrous, they should not be cutting back but doubling down. Polish GOG Galaxy, release a native Linux version, offer Proton, and court more Japanese developers to release their titles. Old, or new.

The boycott has not been successful because they are a marginal number of users who have participated in it.

They are the problematic users who should be banned as requested from social networks to gog.com

Hopefully these users went to steam because they want to make the only non-drm store disappear and impose their ideas on the majority of users.

I do not support a boycott personally, at least not a permanent one, but a message needs to be sent that GOG is doing things 'wrong'. They should not compromise the values they claim to support, or throw in the towel.

That is totally sad man. I am sorry that I cannot say anything else: I am speechless :(

Totally fair and key points, indeed

The boycott has not been successful because they are a marginal number of users who have participated in it.

They are the problematic users who should be banned as requested from social networks to gog.com

Hopefully these users went to steam because they want to make the only non-drm store disappear and impose their ideas on the majority of users.

A short term loss certainly. But potentially a long-term gain if it allows suppliers who haven't tried to water down their DRM-free commitment to expand.
Hmmm...maybe GOG just need to target their marketing more then.

That is the impression I got as well.

That's already two totally different goals, that have totally different reasons for happening.

And what about the Epic deal ? no more incentive for Galaxy users ? more resources for offline installers ? No to mention all the peoples joining and leaving the boycott based on their current grief of the day.

Boycotting Gog because you want Hitman removed that's a boycott with a clear goal. Boycotting Gog because you want them to sell a game, not sell another one, you don't like the front page banner, you want Marcin Iwinski to change his haircut, etc... etc... is not.

But would it stop the boycott ?

The whole point of a boycott is : "We don't like X therefore we boycott you until you fix X" and when the company fixes X then the boycott ends, simple.

But if it becomes "We don't like X,Y,Z, α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, etc... therefore we boycott until you fix all of them and even others we didn't mention" then even if the company makes the effort for fix X and Z it might not have any effect on the boycott so they are less likely to bother trying, especially not with 120 peoples following said boycott.

Devotion and DRM are obviously different issues but Epic, Galaxy, offline installers and Hitman are all tied in with DRM.

Devotion was more of an issue of preservation more than anything

This is very well said. As has been stated multiple times in this thread, the goal of the boycott has never been to cause GOG to fail. It is to send a clear message that they are going down the wrong path.

Why can't a boycott have multiple goals, if company X has made multiple decisions that are objectionable? I'd say the goals of the boycott are fairly clear in the first post. There is a clear lists of grievances that people want to see addressed, focusing around two key themes: censorship and DRM encroachment.

Part of the problem with having a 'single goal' is that those who are boycotting GOG are not a homogenous block - different people are boycotting for different reasons. Because ... surprise, surprise ... GOG have made multiple objectionable missteps over the past couple of years (which is on them) and different people prioritize different ones.

So, it is also not really possible for that same reason to say that: "if items 1, 3 and 5 are addressed, then everyone who is boycotting will come back". I think the best we can say is that people are boycotting for a range of reasons, which I have tried to summarize in the first post. If GOG addresses one of those issues, some people might start buying again who were prioritizing that particular issue. The more of those issues GOG addresses, the more people are likely to return.

Honestly, I think its probable the best we can do, given the diverse train wreck of issues GOG has created over the past several years. Hell, there are other issues some people seem to be leaving/boycotting over that aren't even mentioned on the list: e.g. poor customer support, badly designed forum with bots downvoting. GOG seems to have a big (and growing) list of issues that they really need to start addressing. The list in post 1 should be a good starting point.