Who were the other 2?

How much looking into does it take for GOG to admit that Hitman isn't DRM-Free?

I can see how it would take some time to sort out how to deal with this mess, but the fact that you refuse to acknowledge it's a mess makes you look more like a key reseller than a reputable game store.

Yeah, nothing changed. Aside from people not willing to support this company that decided to throw away everything that it was based on.

If they "totally didn't care anymore" about DRM then they'd be selling a lot more profitable stuff here than they currently are. It would be crazy for them to toss out the thing that makes them unique, but even crazier to do it and then not even take advantage of the positives that would offer (i.e. larger library).

The actual issue here... NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOUR OR I MAY DISAGREE... is the thought process that Hitman is DRM free because you can play through all the missions offline without activation. GOG are not saying "yes this has DRM, we don't care anymore." They are saying by their calculus the game does not have DRM.

you cant do much without the progression, demos dont count as full games.

I understand that, but they are either wrong, and the game as advertised is non-functional, or they are willingly comitting false advertising. Because what's promised in the store is not what is available without the offline lockout. I think it's the former and they're just idiots being used by IO, that if they arent capable of seeing this they should just close that loophole. But, let's not pretend GoG is in any way free of fault here. Free of malice sure, the conspiracy theories are quite strong right now, but free of harm? No. I'll not ramble on any event, but my point stands
Did Gog ever say their standard was no online functionality or limits of any kind, at all? Because the worst you can say is this has been an ignorance based misinterpretation of what is or is not DRM (since the game as advertised is non-functional without the online login). But has GoG ever said "we will not allow any online subscription or lockout to any part of the game no matter the context" at any time? Because I'd love to ask the GoG from the past how Spore comes into that.

Oh I am not at all saying GOG did nothing wrong. I made it clear from the early pages of this thread that this game does NOT belong here. I'm just trying to play down the reaction of "well I guess GOG doesn't care about DRM free anymore!" I think if that were the case this would have happened a LOT differently. The actual problem is GOG think this game IS actually DRM free.

The question at the end of the day is when they are saying that, are they?
1) Correct --- I think only a small group of people believes that.
2) Obliviously Mistaken --- many believe that about the time just before the release Hitman, but GOG has had more than a week to educate itself, so are they still oblivious?
3) Knowingly Mistaken, better known as Lying --- many others believe that.

As for "selling a lot more profitable stuff", you were there when GOG began selling newer games alongside old ones. When they did, they initially added one here, one there. They didn't release hundreds of new games in one week, although there were hundreds of games they could have. It takes time to arrange a GOG release. We're just, I believe, near the beginning. For one reason or another, Hitman was a low-hanging fruit.

I don't think any of us knows the future and we are all powered by our prejudices. We shall have to wait and see.

We did, I think, learn one thing already. GOG reacts a lot faster to "many messages" than to "review bombing".

Aye, aye, Capt'n Obvious!
Do you mean that you want to stare it out? Like a cat? That's a cunning plan.
Just remember this: if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you. You might not like what you could find there.

Steam and Epic. It was basically the introduction, like where do you buy games, the obvious choices are..

But Epic isn't close either. If we're talking in terms of launchers I haven't heard of anything besides the two but steam blows them both out of the water, stupid as it is.

If Epic is "second to steam regardless if steam is still far ahead" then GOG can be third regardless of how "niche compared to both" it is.

GOG is pretty far behind everyone in everything but DRM-Free installers.

Removal wishlist entry: consider taking a second to vote here, despite the likelihood it won't make a difference, like Devotion's hugely-voted wishlist entry :p (but at least Red Candle has their own DRM-free versions on their own store now)

I saw some replies under the "I actually forgot CD Projekt is the one that made GOG lmao" noting they pirate GOG games. :p