THQ Nordic could be taking a more hands-off approach to their studio aquisitions. It's been demonstrated in the past that companies that took a more heavy-handed approach often wrecked those studios (look at EA and their aquistions for example). So Deep Silver could be allowed to act mostly autonomously and will hopefully learn from the mistakes that put them in such a position in the first place. As much as I want to see Agents of Mayhem here - saying it was poorly received is an understatement.

That said, I don't think that DRM-free is something that would harm Deep Silver - and I see nothing wrong with suggesting that there are plenty of customers on GoG who will throw money at them if they release their stuff here. I don't even mind if they want to wait a couple months to do so in order to protect those initial sales (in their view). Better a couple months late than not at all - and after most of those initial bugs are fixed.