BanditKeith2: But its still not truly drm-free .....
As amok says, it is very hard to understand your posts. Whether that be due to a lack of English skill or the way your mind works or maybe something like spell checker messing with your posts, done from a phone maybe, we don't know.
Anyway, that aside, if a game after downloading it plays without a client or a launcher that needs an internet connection, then to my mind it is essentially DRM-Free.
Aside from
DRM-Free Lite, there is also
DRM-Free Limited.
DRM-Free Limited would cover where the single player aspect is DRM-Free but the Multiplayer isn't.
You could also say it covers where the single player element is also not entirely DRM-Free ... requires online connection to get bonus stuff or gain access to something.
Of course
DRM-Free Limited can be provided in two ways. You can get the single player part, but the multiplayer part is either DRM or is missing altogether. Quite whether you call a game that is missing its Multiplayer as some kind of DRM, I've never been able to make up my mind, as the bit you bought is DRM-Free.
Buying or obtaining DRM-Free Lite games from stores such as Epic and Steam, is an option. Those stores are here to stay, been around a long while. The relatively few who buy at GOG are never going to change what happens at the other stores. In fact, GOG are always doing it tough, especially when it comes to getting game providers to provide their product to GOG, especially AAA game providers. That said, GOG do seem to turn many of the lesser providers away, or more likely just cannot settle on acceptable terms.
So the encouraging bad behavior as you say, is a non issue. You and I are not going to change whether those stores survive. If we get DRM-Free only games from them, then that might mean they provide more games DRM-Free. That is a positive thing, that might yield improvement, rather than the negative thing you are suggesting, that won't.
So many now seem to take DRM-Free for granted these days, when most of it could be lost in the blink of an eye. The way the world is going and has been going for a long time, is toward even more DRM. GOG is one of the few lights in that darkness, the biggest one, but it isn't a given they will continue to survive ... it's a continual battle for them all the way.
