Bruh, the blues replying to this thread are forum staff......keeping tabs on the forums is literally one of their jobs.
(yeah, they have other jobs to do and each of them individually isn't at work 24/7, but one of them is here most times of the day)

Well said.
I have 5 times more games here than on Steam and I already had like 300 games on Steam when I opened my GOG account. DRM-Free brought me here, kept me here.
If they go with DRM, why the frak would I stay here? I will just buy games from Steam who at least don't change the core of what they are every couple of years. And for the most time they don't lie their asses off.

As this is going, I really actually trust Steam more.

Here ya go :)

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One of ours is "squeaky wheel gets the grease"
(nvm, Catte already beat me to it :))



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That's because many are either too content with their bread and circus, or too loyal to GOG/too apathetic to care.


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Agreed

Well that is interesting. This is truly a bizarre situation all-around. I mean, it's not like we're getting all of the new Hitman games dropping here at once, which would probably suffocate the complaints overtime, but because we're essentially buying DLC for the second Hitman game in IO's recent trilogy there's a justifiable hyper-focus on things.

Meanwhile back in the real world, observable reality is what it is:-

Most Helpful Review : "This game has online DRM. You can play though the game with the basic options, but many features, such as unlocking weapons, items, outfits, starting locations and more are locked behind an online requirement."

Feedback : 1202 of 1259 users found this helpful

Since when is 95% a "minority"? If the figures were flipped and only 57 out of 1259 people found reviews alerting them to DRM useful, then the same 5 or 6 trolls here who spend all day every day attacking other people for having valid complaints and still trying to shovel the same worn out debunked false narrative that "only like 20 GOG forum regulars care about DRM, no one else on the planet does", you might actually have a point. At this stage though, you guys have basically turned into trolls in extreme denial on the subject.

The one you mention is not wierd as it makes sense given when wheels was squeaky in the past grease was usually the fix from there would be a lack of grease in the part of the wheel that allowed it to move

I agree with all of your points here. DRM-free is GOG's chosen niche - that is what they have. It is all they are going to have. If they abandon that, they will have nothing. Zip. NADA. They will no longer have a reason to exist and I suspect their slope downwards towards the cliff edge will only steepen.

GOG's managers have been living in fantasy land for too long and they need a serious wake-up call.

German Gamestar article: https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/hitman-gog-massive-kritik-online-drm,3373768.html

Exactly why I choose to protest by buying on other storefronts. If GOG wants to sell DRM, I may as well buy my DRM on a superior store. The ONLY reason to shop in this inferior, buggy, out-of-date store is DRM free games.

Having looked at the Hitman GOTY trailer on the GOG YouTube Channel I can see that the comments section has been disabled, See here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-dF7gLwd4

Yet all other videos have there comments enabled which you can pick from here

https://www.youtube.com/c/gog/videos

This really doesn't put GOG in a better light!

The problem is that more and more AA or AAA solo players are using game service functions.

And publishers are notorious for not offering a corrective patch later to offer a full offline option. At best they maintain their servers or at worst they close everything and the game ends up with almost nothing.

And in the future I wouldn't be surprised if all AA and AAA games will have a game service system.

In the end, only the indies will remain gog. Apart from the peculiarity of gog in addition to games without drm it is proposed big games. Except if he only offers indies his certainly does not interest me with a lot of people because there are stores for his like itch. If I wanted indies I would go there.

I think this is going to have an effect on other games whose Gog pages have anything ambiguous on them. If I'm wondering about buying a game, but there's something unclear about it working offline, then my response now is going to be to see if it's already been asked in the forums, and if it hasn't to post a question myself. That's a major speed-bump in the purchasing process.

Take "Victor Vran", which is currently on sale at a price cheap enough for an impulse purchase. A bit of research suggests that everything does work offline, but by the time I felt happy with that I'd already noticed that it has some long-standing bugs, and also that all the screenshots show a lack of variety in enemies. The speed-bump lost them the sale, because after doing the research and checking out a Let's Play, I'm no longer interested in playing it myself.

I think this issue is causing the most ruckus out of anything I've seen since joining and being active.
GOG topics are usually low key on reddit, but the pcgaming sub has a couple of posts about Hitman with pretty large amounts of views/upvotes.

Certainly a really useless post, but it's kind of interesting.

I wonder........