I don't know what the future will bring to GOG, Internet or Humanity in general.
But one thing is sure: DRM-Free games have future, as they are non-perishable. Try to play today some old game that was infected with Starforce DRM. Now, guess what will happen to Denuvo-infected games in a few years...

As long as you have somewhere to store them, you will be able to play your GOG games for many decades, be it in a fallout bunker, a spaceship or wherever. Provided you have a computer and some means to power it.

Future it has. Never lose your belief you must. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

They are a dedicated service to a niche market, so while they might experience a few bumps I don't think they will disappear anytime soon.

Heh, yesterday I happened to find my boxed copy of that game at the bottom of a drawer.

I don't think those 5¼" disks work anymore... :\

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
I think GOG still will have their place, though I do think they should move more aggressively towards actually supporting Linux without hassle.

There's a good chance that they'll work better than a GD-Rom.

You raise very valid points and surely the absence of all these things will present a serious drag for GOG's development. Still, GOG is still profitable as far as I know and you should not only blame the devs (they only go for the money, it's not a personal thing for them), but also GOG (who may not really offer the best service and infrastructure to the devs) and also most fellow players and paying customers who frankly don't give much about DRM and buy their games at Steam (even if the games were here in the same condition they may still buy at Steam with DRM).

In the end, there is nothing really we can do additionally, except praising the principal advantages of DRM freeness. The cause is right. We still may lose the battle. That's reality.

Oh yes, GOG has future and it's even unfolding.

On a more serious note, I think whether GOG has a lasting future depends on their decisions. They have made a lot of very bad calls in the past. So now the only thing left that sets them apart is DRM-free single player games. There will always be some players who prefer DRM-free games. So as long as GOG sticks to that last remaining principle, they will continue to exist. They will not grow beyond a certain point. They will never be as big as Steam. But they will have their niche. However, as soon as they drop DRM-free and start to sell DRM-ed games, there will be nothing left to set them apart from Steam&Co and they will cease to exist. Or turn into another Steam-key reseller.

No, future has only uncertainty.

I HAS GOG

I won't be able to find out until I stumble upon my old 5¼" drives at the bottom of some random box in the attic. :P

GOG can has future?

More and more games here are being released internet heavy. Whilst some will scream blue in the face that it's not drm, if gwent servers turn off right now that game is gone. So effectively the same thing.
Add to that there only seems to be drivel released here most of the time, and the few things worth buying are so much more expensive than elsewhere, I don't see how they can continue for much longer. They either continue with the "we want be steam" and accept either drm or always online which seems most likely with their whole galaxy thing. Or they drop that and go back to what they once were which is unlikely to happen.
So expect to see more and more cloud and galaxy reliance to the point where the vast majority don't even know how to run something without a client, and then they will switch off classic installers completely. Possibly coinciding with cyberpunk release.

It definitely has. GOG is the only way I'm ever going to buy digital only games. If GOG suddenly disappeared, it would be mostly retail and torrents for me (not afraid to admit it). I've never and never will buy a game directly through Steam or any other platform. GOG has allowed me to drop torrents almost completely with their fair practices, which I'm grateful for.

For me, the only problem with GOG are the very strict acceptance criteria, resulting in many key games missing for no apparent reason. And the lack of focus on their original goal - making old games available again. Then you have things missing like Heretic, Hexen, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and tons of others which really should be here.

So much THIS! I hope GOG has a bright future and keeps offering DRM-free games for many years to come, but if the store suddenly dissapeared, my offline installers aren't going anywhere.