That is what I call a self made narrative. Like the DRM Free in Steam. Pure post-Truth.

A mix of denial and Stockholm Syndrome, if you ask me. Denial about gog being hell-bent to crash this plane with no survivors, Stockholm Syndrome because that would mean having flushed x amount of money down the toilet.

I buy the games from various stores (humble, fanatical, steam, indiegala, etc.) through their websites. I activate the keys on steam's website (via a web browser). You cannot buy games via SteamCMD, it's just a downloader.

Of course you need your credentials to download your games via SteamCMD. In the same way you need your credentials to download your games via the browser on GOG. But in both cases, once downloaded, the games I buy are DRM-free and can be played offline, without client, and moved from computer to computer.

I prefer to keep my steam and GOG identities separate.

Practically all of the games I have so far are games in some of the genres I like that are not available on GOG. Given that I have only bought from GOG from 2009 to 2020, and my GOG library is fairly large (1800+ items), I expect it's natural these would be the ones I'd be interested in. For now, I mostly buy on ultra-cheap bundles, so that definitely biases my collection.

Examples are tactical games (e.g. Valkyria Chronicles, Ironcast), hidden object games (e.g. Alice in Wonderland HO, Alice Behind the Mirror), and casual games (solitaire, match-3).

Your expectations are correct! GOG will wait for "steam" to blow over, silently change their review policy and EULA a bit and in a few months HITMAN 2 and HITMAN 3 are on GOG 100% DRMed!

Or else nothing, it wasnt a threat. It was a list of the two things they should do. Because the current situation is unsatisfactory.

We are half way through a second business day in Poland now, and there has still been no word. Its not entitled to think a company should attempt damage control over something like this.

GOG needs to apply the breaks or a firehose to the situation, if the game got on to the store because IOI lied to them, taking it off the store front cant possibly have gog be at fault for a contract break. As it stands now GoG lost a lot of trust with this move, more so then any other IMO (like I cant care about gwent, an online game, needed online stuff, and I cant care about innocent one off bugs that bug out cosmetic items). And I struggle to see how a possible contract break with IOI is worth more then the loss of trust in the user base.

While this is not strictly untrue it is so severely understated that's is a distortion of facts. On GOG the chance is well below 1%, I'd personally call it a round 0 for the claims they make and that we've reluctantly agreed to (ie. single-player content). On Steam it's much, much more, I'd say it's above two thirds and for the games I'd be interested in, including indies, close to all of them.

What you say is more or less true, but it ignores the other aspect of the equation. With bundles, I can buy 5 or more steam games for the price of 1 on-sale GOG game. Even if 3 of them end up DRM'd, I simply delete them and I have 2 DRM-free games, which is more than I would have on GOG, even if it were 100% DRM-free.

But that's theoretically. In practice, so far I bought about 50 games. Of these 4 were DRM'd (or at least required the client) --- one I refunded and three deleted. I definitely understand that for many people what they are interested in is DRM'd, but that's not my case for the most part. At least not so far.

I've checked the last four indie-ish games I've bought and installed from there (Shift Happens, Untitled Goose Game, Everything and Manifold Garden), and even out of those three didn't start without Steam.

Anyway to clarify, I don't want to question your personal reasons or decision to buy there, I just find the original phrasing misleading. It's probably best if we leave it at that. :)

People don't really want DRM imho... They 'accept' DRM the way it is in Steam and other store fronts because:

- They don't really understand the harm this market practice has done to Software preservation in general;
- They don't really understand what DRM is;
- They never really cared to search for 'worlds outside Steam|Epic|Origin|etc bubble';
- They do recognize everything about DRM but also understand that they can't do much or aren't really keen to do something themselves (With this mindset, which is comprehensible: "This is the only place I can buy most of the games I want to play, so I have to accept it the way it is.")
Also, this is sad. :(

I see GOG's communist friends were kind enough to organise training for the staff. Delete reviews! Ban users! That will solve all our problems. Fear will keep the local systems in line!

You would think a Polish company would know better... given history and all.

In case this helps anything, I contacted both GOG and IOI support regarding this last week and was informed today that
the "Product manager is talking with the Developers about the bonus content, elusive targets and save system".

More about it in my original post, which I always update once I get new info, did not want to spam this thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_edition_11093/post281

But yeah, an official stance on this via any means, website, Twitter, etc. would be appreciated as well.

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This is a shit show. The post about "we will look into it, don't bomb the reviews" is a mealy mouthed non-apology.

1. The game should be pulled immediately. It's obviously not DRM Free. It can be put back up when it's fixed.
2. Pointing out that a game breaks the terms of the website and is broken unless online is not review bombing. It's legitimate reviewing of the lack of functionality of the game.

Disappointment of The Year: GOG Edition