I am not attacking users criticizing this release. If there is meaningful single-player content restricted behind always-online requirement, then this game shouldn't be called DRM-free in the store.

I am attacking the idiots who huff and puff and are all talk. The drama queens.

So I ask you again: are you going to do as you suggested "people" should do? Or is it all talk? Why do you hang around in a store you don't like?

agreed too.

Wow, there's some galaxy-brained takes to be found in that thread... Peak leddit! xD

By the way, if ZP's selection doesn't please you, there are other options to buy from.

I haven't bought a single game on GOG since January (see boycott thread: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/boycotting_gog_2021/post2876).

For a few months I didn't buy anywhere, but then I learned that there are loads of DRM-free/client-free games on steam, and more importantly that you can download them without the steam client, and did my math (which might not be everyone's math):
- Both stores are not fully DRM-free
- Both stores have a sizeable catalogue of DRM-free games, but steam's is larger
- A fair number of GOG's games are outdated vis-a-vis steam (and also vis-a-vis galaxy, which I don't use)
- With bundles, the prices of games on GOG are 5+ times higher than they are on steam
- So I see no real reason to buy on GOG, with their exorbitant pricing and poor maintenance and service, except perhaps where they have a DRM-free up-to-date game that is not the same on steam (haven't really been looking for any such, as I have hundreds of games I want to play on steam first, but I assume they exist)

So, for now, I have effectively moved to steam (without installing their client) and have bought there about 50+ games so far, practically all DRM-free (the ones that weren't I either refunded or irreversibly deleted from my library).

I still use GOG's forum, though, as it is better than steam's.

P.S. As for your comment, I was never among those people who stated they would leave GOG if they introduced DRM-free games. On the contrary, I have no problem with them selling such games, as long as they clearly mark them, which they don't.

hey gog i got that title with drm for free on epic, why should one bother to get it here with all the drm and not for free??

seems like gog magagement is doing way to much cocaine lately!

PROTIP for anyone thinking about posting about this on their Discord: Bring up the Might & Magic X debacle. Hammer it into their heads that this is the fate that's in line for this game unless all the online requirement bullshit is removed. Remind them of this again and again and again.

I can also understand if someone wants to boycott a company or a store... but what I don't quite understand is hanging around in a company or store you boycott and don't like.

For instance, I don't really like Apple products much (the M1 laptops are mildly interesting though). Do I hang around in various Apple forums, telling there everyone I "boycott", ie. not-buy, Apple products, and I rather buy e.g. PCs and Android phones?

No, I don't see any reason why I should do that. It serves no purpose.

What's even the point of GOG anymore? For the longest time this store has been selling games that are inferior to what you'd get on Steam (missing features, updates, DLC, etc.) but the one reason to tolerate it was it was DRM-free. If GOG is more than happy to sell stuff knowing it has DRM now, why bother shopping here? There's no trust, there's no reason to believe that you'll actually get a DRM-free game from GOG if this is the standard that's being set. Anyone willing to tolerate DRM should just use Steam, and those who care about DRM-free stuff are better off just shopping at itch.io since from what I've seen they seem to be DRM-free (along with providing Steam keys sometimes) and a lot of games on there show when they were last updated so you don't need a community thread dedicated to tracking whether or not the devs are leaving you behind compared to Steam users.

I used to really love GOG but now this place is just one disappointment after another. It doesn't have to be like this, either, but with a release like this it's clear that nobody in charge actually cares anymore. If nobody cares, there's no hope.

Steam is drm, why would you complain about drm ;)

Yeah that could be one to keep eye on... but their selection of games seems rather restricted as well, at least I didn't see e.g. Tomb Raider GOTY, Sleeping Dogs, Fallout: New Vegas or Darksiders series there, the kind of games I love to buy DRM-free.

Also didn't they have some... unclear releases, ie. games they might not have permission to sell? E.g. Race Driver: GRID?

I'm not sad gog, just disappointed. You can't beat steam at their own game, don't try it.

We have a different definition of boycott.

For me, a boycott is an attempt to change the practices of a store or company I do want to buy from.
This is different from simply not buying somewhere.

I do not boycott McDonald's. I simply never buy there because they have nothing I want to buy. I also don't hang around McDonald's.

I would like to be able to buy on GOG, but their service has deteriorated so much, that I find it no longer appealing. I could give up on them, but instead by boycotting them, I have a tiny bit of hope that they will improve. This boycott obviously requires me to publicise the fact that I am boycotting in order to draw GOG's attention and have them think whether their future plans should be reconsidered (and perhaps also recruit more people to join the boycott, which this last move from GOG could help).

This is the reason for the existence of the boycott thread, where a group of sincere ex-GOG-clients are hanging while boycotting.

was looking forward to this release. will not buy with online requirements tho.