It matters only to one person: me.

Who cares about the Steam EULA (which is not even legal in several countries) at all? ;)

Thank you. I'm still new to steam and learning the ropes.

I found only one game in my steam library (Valkyria Chronicles) with a registry entry mentioned in the vdf file, but that entry does not exit in my registry, despite my having installed and played the game on this computer. Not sure what it means.

this isn't about the game itself as I'm not interested in in in the slightest, but if the game doesn't get either fixed or removed you won't see any more money from me
and you know what? this way you're hurting game makers too, people who won't be able to sell games anymore, I hope they hear about it too and show their disapproval as your bad decisions directly affect their income

You might want to get yourself listed here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/boycotting_gog_2021/post1

This is a myth, steam has no right to intercede on the purchases between you and a product holder, nor does it require you to sign any form of lease. The subscriber agreement cannot apply to every single game you buy, they dont have the jurisdiction to do that, it's now their games. It's why steam can't remove things from your library after a game becomes illegal to sell. You own it, steam can do nothing to prevent it from operating. A license is involved, but a license is an explicit admission of ownership. If you have a license you own the game and are owed all rights of ownership. And yes I know a lot of licenses claim you own own anything and cant modify or copy. That is unenforcable. Or have you not backed up your system recently? Because that counts as a copy.

Sorry for picking on you for this but it needs to be corrected.

The issue isn't a contract, it's steams policy. They make the games attach to steamworks and even encourage it, GoG does not, and I am waiting for GoG to make a formal response to this. not the review shit, but on the admission of DRM. Will they say this isn't DRM since the game runs(allbeit at limited capacity) so they dont have to moderator every game that has online only components? Will they demand every aspect of a game have some form of offline ability for ever function? Will they double down and demand it's a publisher decision and GoG only promises to not be DRM themselveS? We'll see.

I think it is painfully obvious that the money GOG brings in from Hitman is far more important to them than doing what is right and removing the blatant false advertising. Or even removing the game until it is fixed and fully drm-free. Shutting down comments/ratings on the youtube trailer only compounds the issue and sends a very bad message. A message that sales of the game are far more important than protecting GOG's image or listening to it's customer base. They would rather cowardly hide what they are doing behind prepared statements that admit no guilt on their part. Continuing to pull the wool over the eyes of customers to continue to sell a game that is not as advertised.

I don't think they plan that far ahead. It's more likely that the product team just had this next in the release pipeline, totally not caring anymore if a game has DRM and whether that would be even slightly controversial.

Some people have said that we "DRM-purists" see everything as black and white and that it is a problem. I disagree. Rather, the problem is that the people at Gog have lost color perception and they just see ONE shade of grey (everything is the same) and thus are incapable of even noticing that a game with DRM fits as well here as a porcupine in a box of bath sponges.

I'm too lazy to break out the paint.net to make it, but imagine this sleeping squidward meme:

"Answering my support ticket asking for details on who asked for Devotion to be delisted & asking if further 'messages from gamers' will get content delisted" => **Squidward with his eyes closed**

"Some guys review bombing a game" => **Squidward with his bloodshot eyes, bolted open**

It's not that they're taking their time, it just happens that they performed their Special move (the Ostrich maneuver) and have their heads buried so deep in the sand that they passed out from asphyxia.

To be fair, they might not even know, and might be concerned about the state of games with actual online properties. I do know games which have a bunch of social options which connect online, that are wholely divorce from the game itself. These by definition cannot be offline, but the game remains DRM free. There is a potential stopgap here. GoG has also been known to personally negotiate, which they might be doing with IO. I'm holding my breath before I start spouting abandon.
Indeed. The issue here is not "There is DRM reeee" if it were that I just wouldn't buy it, like I do with steam. The bigger issue is my ability to trust GoG's store implicitly. If it were just the later, I wouldn't be posting right now. This isn't about Hitman specificly, this is about my ability to put full faith in the store.

Despite the ruckus, I still plan on buying games from GOG in the future. They're still the best legit source of DRM-free games. Just have to be careful & make sure any game I want to purchase really is DRM-free.

Let's vote to get this game removed from Gog's catalog or Gog should add a true DRM-free version of it.
At the moment much of the functionality is locked behind DRM.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/remove_hitman_game_of_the_year_edition_from_catalog

OMG.... FINALLY!!! Someone that isn't engaging in mass hysteria and fear mongering! Upvote!