Through my eyes I see the people who keep praising GOG's bad decisions to ironically advocate its future demise. It's in GOG's benefit to get its rear kicked and get its stuff in gear to go back to normal.

If GOG ends up becoming yet another generic DRM store then what's the point? The entire point of GOG is being able to purchase games knowing full well that they're going to not have killswitches built-in.

Without that selling point there's no reason to keep using GOG and people will just begrudgingly go back to using Steam and other larger services and CD Projekt will lose revenue anyways.

In my case I buy games off GOG because I like to burn the offline installers to DVD-R/DL's as I like having physical versions that will work 100% of the time without mods or modified executables that remove the restrictions. Hell, I was considering purchasing a BluRay drive and a stack of discs to use with larger games because preserving what I bought is worth the investment.

I can't buy Hitman TM because IO's servers won't last forever. Eventually what I'll be left with is a glorified demo.

I can't speak for the guy you are asking, but I personally use web browser to buy games from Steam, and I have an older laptop that has Steam client installed on it.

My main computer can be used to buy games and play games without it ever having had the Steam client, or any other client including Galaxy, installed.
That also serves as a very pragmatic and foolproof test. When I transfer games from my older laptop to my main computer, if they start and if they run, they are guaranteed 100% DRM-free, because there are no Steam files on that computer.

I know this is probably a bit more tiresome method than some command lines, but it works for me.

Guys can we please keep this about Hitman. The conversation is starting to derail a bit. We want this addressed right?

I find it weird how people on facebook either don't care about the Hitman crisis, or are completely oblivious. Makes me nervous. Perhaps people against this crap are trully a vocal minority... This is greatly concerning.

What about the unshockables?

This is what I think most people are upset about. You want to be able to reaply mission with new starting points, weapons and disguises.

Glad i didnt get this i really hope you fix this. Your rep will take longer what were you thinking with this didn't someone at gog think is going to create a backlash.

its really not looking good for the company, first cyberpunk gets forced out the door knowing full well its not ready and trying to hide that fact as much as possible. then gog THE drm free store starts selling drm games. fuck i liked this company so much and they have just shat on their entire reputation.

I thought the same, I've never seen him behaving so terribly in all these years. O_o
And the suggestion about the shares is too silly for him..

200% agree I love this place the community here have helped to get so many games here drm free & i and others can't thank them enough.

Gog pulling a move like this i don't blame the community getting irate at them.

I share your same disappointment of the situation, but.. they're not recycling the message, it's simply pinned! XD
Anyway, knowing Gog's current speed, I already know it will take them a lot do.. something.

Angry Joe did pick it up in his news segment. They didn't get the story exactly right (about just how much content is lcoked behind online DRM, and how inacurate the description and disclaimer still are), but still they were mostly on our side in their coverage.

I think if this is how IOI intends to treat GOG folk, then it's better they go back to Valve's and Epic's Game Stores, right? They probably just slapped Valve to GOG hooks, allowed the game to launch without DRM, and called it a day. Admittedly it works for most games, but for Hitman...

(Or maybe they've been playing Memoryhole the Comment.)

I agree. That's exactly my problem with both steam and GOG. No easy way to identify DRM-free games.

The chances of hitting a DRM-free game on GOG is higher than steam, but so is the chance of hitting a more expensive or a more outdated or a more second-class game.