Oh, they have a history about deleting uncomfortable stuff, like those videos from their early days where they made fun of regional pricing and other industry shenanigans.
Once they had an endless lists of principles with corollaries, today you can maybe find some relics of that time hidden somewhere, registered by chance in something else.

That's what bother me the most about GOG, they're never straight forward and they swipe the dust under the rug. They think we are all idiots uncapable to recall things we read yesterday.
See, just the fact you said "the vast majority" and not "the entirety" is troubling by itself, isn't it?
Every disease starts with a single patient 0.

Let me rephrase that then perhaps 10 out of I think 5000 games in the GOG library has some GOG Galaxy connection requirement.

If any vegan restaurant would ever be presenting you a 2000-3000 items long menu, you could bet your ass that there would be more than a few cases where someone in the supply chain has not followed the requirements fully even though what is or is not vegan should probably be far easier thing to define than where is the line between honest design decisions and malicious attempts to spoil multiplayer support with DRM...

If I were a vegan, I would expect that restaurant (advertising itself as vegan), having been notified that a small number of items contain animal products, to do something about it, rather than bury their heads or shrug their shoulders and say "oh well!". In that situation, imo it would be perfectly reasonable for a committed vegan to complain and perhaps stop patronizing said restaurant.

In other words, the issue with GOG is not just that there are a handful of games on their store that have DRM - it is their attitude regarding it. The total apathy in relation to the issue that I find disappointing. It's clear they just don't give a shit.

But GOG is not abandoning the DRM Free principle. And I am not going to explain step by step the details about it because that is the reason I am so angry about those liars, trolls and disinformants

It doesn't really matter, even a single one would be too much for a store that proclaims itself the last bastion of ethics and built its fame on the fight against DRM.

Yes, it is. They either have a principle or they don't. If they were against DRM out of principle (and not as a marketing gimmick) they would deny all DRM-ed games. And when something slips through by accident, they would do their best to fix it or remove the offending game from the store. As was done in the past.

What they have done instead is publish a game with a DRM-ed DLC themselves. That is a very clear signal that they are not against DRM anymore. It's no accident, it's no oversight. It's something that there parent company has decided and has decided not to remove in spite of customer protest.

I think, you don't understand what a principle is. There is a big difference between being against something as a matter of principle and saying "well, in principle we're against it, but we make exceptions".

What you have here is just personal childish and emotional hate about a DRM Free store. Just because some details did not fill your subjective expectations in 2021.
You consider that a DRM full store is more ethical (for agnostic or for not informative) than GOG because the sin of GOG was trying to be big and DRMfree and proud of it the better they can in this digital gaming world.

Ok, it is legit, get on and look for something better.

To me all of that is overreaction and absurd.

I can tell you a lot of pre 2000 games where the multiplayer is unavailable but nobody consider it it DRM or incomplete.

Buy it could be present in any of your demential topics about DRM. Why not? Some technical details need to be discused?

All of this is really disgusting and insulting. YEARS with the same topic.

Your premise there comes preloaded with the assumption that GOG cares about their original type of customers for whom that sort of thing is important.

Yet, all indications are, actually they don't. Rather, they appear to be taking a new attitude, and trying to transition to an entirely new type of customer base, one who GOG hopes will shop here because:

1. They care about GOG's slogan of "a curated selection of games" (which GOG pushes equally as hard as their "DRM-free" slogan) and

2. They care about Galaxy 2.0's feature to put all of your DRM-infested games in one place.

3. They care about Galaxy's 2.0 feature to buy all of your DRM-infested games in one place...which isn't fully possible now at the current moment...but possibly will be so in the coming months & years, once GOG signs deals with the other huge publishers in addition to their current EGS deal... like Bethesda, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, EA, etc., that allows them to sell their DRM-infested games on GOG via Galaxy 2.0.

Granted, that third point may end up being wishful thinking on GOG's part and it may not happen because maybe the other companies won't want to sign deals with GOG.

And most likely, their entire plan to transition to a new type of customer base is doomed to failure. By outlining it above, I'm not endorsing it or saying it's a good idea that will cause GOG to be a huge success. Rather, I'm simply trying to describe what their agenda seems to be, no matter how wrong-headed it is.

As for the news that the FCKDRM "campaign has ended"...that statement is almost as bad as the "many messages from gamers" lie back in December.

I thought FCKDRM was supposed to be deeply-held & permanent value of GOG, and not a temporary "campaign."

But I guess the revelation that it was merely the latter is just further corroboration of the diabolical new direction that GOG is going in. Note: when I say "new," I mean relatively new, as in it started within the past few years.

So long as you're OK with missing content. A lot of recent releases have some if its content hidden behind DRM schemes, like Stronghold Warlords registration requirement to get all skin unlocks.

well, that was very naive of you...

Given the direction GOG are going I think they have stopped that "campaign" to start a new one LVDRM.

To some of us that's little to get overly upset about...now if it's more "serious" SP content(which a few games here do seem to hide behind such schemes, and which I hope the makers/gog address), then I can see being more upset in such cases.

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To me this is somewhat "fine"(tolerable) as long as such games are labelled properly so I know beforehand.
(of course I am more okay with it, in part, because I often buy said games cheap/used and then [totally do not] remove such things from games after ;))
(I also see DRM as a whole as not going away....short of a miracle....so I just deal with it as need be)

That is entirely your call and a valid point of view. I think GOG openly transiting to a DRM-agnostic store with clear lables on the game pages which kinds of DRM the game has would be a better way for GOG than pretending to be DRM-free, lying and letting the users figure out which games are DRM-ed and which are safe. Such an open transition would still be a breach of the old promise, but at least it wouldn't be a continued lie. One of the reasons why I don't shop here anymore is, that I can't trust GOG. You never know what parts of the game will be DRM-ed when buying it and you don't know whether they'll add more DRM later. So, while my boycott is partially a matter of priciple, it is also partially a matter of trust - and GOG has proven repeatedly that they like lying to their customers.


As for the 'DRM-free' label (not directed at you GR), it's funny how some people are unable to grasp a binary distinction. Either a store is free of DRM or it isn't. Just like in food 'free of additives' should not mean 'we put a bit less additives in than others'.

Or imagine a doctor telling you: "Congratulations! You are officially cancer-free! ... Well, you do have six malignant tumors. But they are small and it's only skin-cancer. So it's not as if anything important is affected. No reason to treat them now! Come back, when some internal organs are affected so much that they are failing." ...
That's about the mindset of the people claiming 'it's not many games/not an important part of those games, so it's not DRM'