EnforcerSunWoo: 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.
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.
StingingVelvet: If they were gonna throw their principles out the window for "big money" I don't think they'd pick a 5 year old game that was given away for free not long ago.
joppo: 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.
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.