Hey, GoG! How about introducing a FCK DRM GoG seal for game developers to proudly show on their products? So many games these days come with hidden DRM rubbish of varying intensity and general unpleasantness. Why not turn the DRM-free focus of GoG to your advantage?

Work with willing game devs on "certification" of their games and when they pass, give them a seal to slap on their products. Something to be proud of - I'm sure many gamers would appreciate it too. You could go for the usual bronze (some DRM, such as online play) - silver (limited backup / copying of the game) - golden (truly DRM-free) GoG seal or something like that.

You know, turn it into something the devs will want to boast about - "look at my new game, GoG-certified, no hidden DRM BS!"

As a developer, i really wouldn't want a "FCK DRM" badge; it looks quite juvenile and unprofessional to me. I'd just use a plain "DRM-Free" icon and that's it. Humble Bundle handles it nicely, even though their DRM-Free games are few anyway.

This seal should be redundant on GOG, as GOG supposedly only sells DRM-free games anyway. So, any game on here should have already passed that test.

Not a very good idea. By default, every game that is being sold on GOG is certified by GOG as DRM-free, just by being available here. With some games there are some questions about possible DRM, with multiplayer or extra content, but overall, some certification wouldn't provide anything extra to anyone.

Also, I'm not sure there are too many developers who would be proud to carry such label, especially because GOG provides max 5-10% of all sales. Identifying themselves as GOG certified probably wouldn't boost their sales at all, but might cause them some problems with other stores.

There's also a very big risk that some developers would start making their own parody labels, "proudly rejected by GOG", as GOG has a history of rejecting a good number of indie games. That really wouldn't work as intended then.

Lastly, I'm not sure developers always have that much to say about game distribution, as that goes through publishers. With some self-publishing indies or big companies with in-house development that is more or less the same, but I don't think many developers are favouring DRM anyway, as they only work on the content, and the publisher makes financial decisions, which also includes possible use of DRM.

In light of all the recent stuff this is both hilarious and terribly sad.

I have no idea why anyone would want to FCKDRM. Seems like an invitation to welcome numerous viruses onto one's floppy disk or dongle. However, perhaps that is why GOG is acting so strange...

I am speaking from the heart here GOG, get some help before it is too late. One could blame it on your wild lifestyle, going all gung-ho without proper protection. There is no need for you to suffer because you went in unprotected. Make it known that indeed yes, GOG has a problem and that they are going to a professional. Before you know it the sun will shine again and the viruses will be gone, along with those pesky bugs crawling around your HDD.

Perhaps a lesson can be learned here, it is better to dodge, dismantle, or even destroy DRM, just don’t try to FCK it.

Right, so do you expect GOG to actually downgrade their 100% DRM-free marketing by labelling some games like 70% DRM-free?

That makes things only worse, business-wise.

It sounds like this would be a first step towards GOG making DRM-free simply one section of the store, as opposed to the whole store. Imo, that would be a serious backward step. Then those games need to be made to comply with GOG's policy, or they need to be removed. Simple as that.

Gog has DRM free by default, only thing I heard was a problem was no man's sky that needs to be fixed.

I think it's more straight-forward to simply say "Available DRM-free on GOG" -- which many games do.

Claiming that a game is "certified by GOG" implies that GOG is doing some additional validation beyond their own store-front, which I really don't think they have the time or resources to do at the moment.