Ancient-Red-Dragon: I think what might happen in this situation is that IOI and GOG may negotiate a fudge wherein they only
partially walk back this DRM infestation on the GOG release, in hopes it will appease most GOG fans to have
some of the DRM removed.
Seems IMO like IOI is reluctant to remove the DRM fully because they don't want the GOG storefront to have the best version of this game, which would probably be because they fear that doing that will tick off their customers on Steam and EGS.
It will be very interesting to see if GOG and IOI attempt to pull a fudge here, and if they do, whether GOG customers will accept it or not.
paladin181: That's the whole point of walking it back, so to speak. They never go all the way back, and get a little bit of what they want. 2 steps forward, one step back. But instead of referring to positive advancement with minor setbacks, it's imposing negative policies and then reverting them to slightly less negative policies.
For those who haven't been here in 2014, here is an example:
- On Friday, February 21, 2014, GOG announced that they will introduce regional pricing for
THREE (3) new games in their catalogue.
- The forum erupted. Over the next 3 days, more than
THREE THOUSAND (3,000) comments were posted to the thread (compare it to the measly 1K over three days in this thread).
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https://www.gog.com/forum/general/announcement_big_preorders_launch_day_releases_coming - On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, GOG published a
TWO THOUSAND (2,000) word letter, apologising, explaining, promising and most importantly reassuring everyone (compare it to chandra's post-it note above).
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing - The forum calmed down.
- A year or so later, practically every game on GOG, old or new, was regionally priced. Nobody cried out anymore (except Cavalary).
- Epilogue: On March 2019, the last vestige, the so-called "Fair Pricing Package", was also removed.