That is pretty awesome, actually. *Insert DiCaprio_raising_glass.gif here*

Making mistakes is human, admitting them takes courage.

I hope there's not too much legal trouble over it with the publisher.

And of course the game is again welcome here if the devs bother with removing the online restrictions. And if not - so be it.

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Kindly provide a quote of me saying that.

You were either unaware or ignored it, also you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

...yeah i think i'm done here.

Unfortunately they didnt say how much are old costs and how much are current ones. In order to properly interpret that statement we would need to know the depreciation schedule.
About the other CDPR products: Correct I think but see further down for estimate. About CP2077 preorders: I would expect them to only appear as 'sales' upon release but I dont know either.
My guess about the consolidation calculation is that GOG keeps 30% and thus 70% of CDPR games are part of CDPR sales and of GOG sales. Consequently the math here is: 100 600 / 0.7 = 143714. Putting this into relation of the 343748 GOG sales gets 41.8% of 2020 GOG sales is due to CDPR games. So if your 39% are correct ~3% of GOG 2020 sales were due to other CDPR games.

Source used: page 30 on https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2021/04/consolidated-financial-statement-of-the-cd-projekt-group-for-2020.pdf

I think it shows that the community is alive, cares and can mount some power. And that GOG brass maybe is waking up to that fact. Maybe I'm cheerfully naive but I think the GOG grunts are on our side anyway.

It's kinda frustrating to see how GOG fails time and again to be the best it could be. But this is a win which makes me slightly optimistic.

Now if they simply offered offline installers for the CP77 bonus content...

Great move GOG, assuming IO is refusing the remove their DRM, leaving it on your market place was destroying everything we love about you. Since you listed this game, I have not made a single purchase. Now that you have correctly reverse this decision, I will spend the same amount I would have spent on Hitman on other games that play by the rules.

IO, if you are reading this, take note of how many people _want_ to pay for your product. Your DRM is hurting you and your potential customers; having already encourage other people to seek alternative arrangements. If you do get your act together, I will be back to purchase it the day it is released DRM free.

Thank you GOG. Listening to your customers is one hell of a step in the right direction. Wish you all the best and power to keep making right decisions. The GOG community is right behind you with full support. I also want to raise a glass to this awesome community, mighty good job on your part too. Stay strong and keep enjoying them DRM-free goodies ;). Cheers

See, and that is exactly why I continue to support GOG through more than money, and continue to be able to give them the benefit of a doubt: In contrast to just about every other big store/publisher, they actually listen and do their best to improve/remedy a situation - it cannot have been easy or comfortable to tell IO that GOG will be removing a game as big as Hitman, nevermind the legalities of that, and that it may be only temporary.

So, even if I have not forgotten Devotion, this move does GOG and its principles credit, and I sincerely hope that this is a display of how the store will continue to operate: To earnestly review controversial decisions, and listen to the arguments of the community.

So, a heart-felt 'Thank You' to whoever is responsible for this move, for keeping an open ear even when the outrage makes genuine communication difficult.

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I did not.

I did neither, it's just not the fix you seem to think it is. If the unlockables are all just unlocked in one go then you're skipping the gameplay to get there. Imagine an RPG where you can't level up unless connected to the developers servers. Patching the game to give you max level is hardly an acceptable solution to that issue.

Great!

while in the end you did the right thing I still expect you to post some, as detailed as possible without revealing company secrets and numbers, explanation how that was even possible to happen

it's not just a slip up, someone must've decided that this will be fine

while I don't care about the clearly multiplayer parts of games or strictly multiplayer games that were built around the central server from the beginning I do care about cutting gameplay elements *possible to implement locally* from single player game and won't allow that, and as I explained before, hybrid gameplay is fine for me, example(of the hybrid gameplay alone, there is another kind of DRM applied here but that's out of scope for this discussion) being FH4 where you can interact with other players, but when your connection goes down simply multiplayer elements get disabled and that's all (in the perfect world you'd be able to run outdated version of the game and just not connect to the server, that's what I want to see for hybrid gameplay modes)

that being said I'll be observing the development around this issue as well as make decisions about issues with other games listed in this topic https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1

it seems that most if not all of them are not *intended* as DRM, just poorly designed, but result in issues that could be easily avoided and should be clearly stated in the game descriptions at the very least (if they are you can ignore this)


current state of my heart is: I'm concerned and while my wishlist contains over 100 positions I'm unlikely to purchase anything from it at this point since I still have too many questions

S̶o̶,̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶ ̶b̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶k̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶'̶n̶o̶ ̶q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶a̶s̶k̶e̶d̶'̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶i̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶?̶ ̶I̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶k̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶p̶o̶n̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶s̶e̶q̶u̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶m̶i̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶f̶a̶r̶.̶ ̶F̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶e̶v̶e̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶w̶e̶e̶k̶s̶ ̶(̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶i̶o̶d̶)̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶,̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶,̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶d̶.̶


Edit: <-- The fool working with outdated info.

Well we're still within 30 days of the release, so everyone who bought this is still eligible for a refund at this point.

True enough but from what I remember reading that usually required defining what the issues are, working with them to try and fix it and only then possibly getting a refund. From what i remember just asking for one and immediately getting it wasn't a common thing. Though that may have changed by now and I haven't really followed similar cases with a justified reason to ask for a refund.

GOG switched to a comprehensive 30-day, no-questions-asked refund policy quite a while back.

Not only that, but Chandra actively invited refunds in an earlier post so I'm fairly confident GOG will be blanket authorising them.
For those who want it, the way to express that want is by pressing the refund button. That was the case before the game was removed and is still the case now. Anyone who wanted a refund didn't need to wait for the game to be removed and I'm not sure why the removal would change anyone's mind.
I don't see how the removal has changed anything in that regard.