No, because at no point did I say that releasing DRMed content here is ever ok. In fact, I said the opposite numerous times.

I'm just saying that a refund of a game I bought and played to completion four years ago (and for most people it's more like seven) because of an update that was never part of the conversation at that time doesn't feel exactly fair either. I hate what CDPR is doing with these DRMed elements, but I don't think it entitles me to effectively have played the game for free.

Nevertheless, I stand by my request for a full refund.

The current version of the witcher3 contains DRM.

Gog continues to perpetuate a 100% DRM free approach.

Even if I do not get a refund, it is my full intention to demonstrate that gog simply is not 100% DRM free nor has been for some time.

No I would not because that would be just as unacceptable as this situation; there is no place for DRM on GOG. I never said it would be, but according to the logic you posted it would (specifically this: "...the product that you originally purchased is still as DRM free as it was originally...").

The point is, CDPR and GOG both explicitly promoted (and continue to promote) themselves as anti-DRM, labelling DRM-free as their #1 'core value' and selling point of their products/services and committing to stand against DRM on numerous occasions! And yet here they are now, not only allowing DRM, not only adding and promoting it in one of their own products, but going back to add it to one of their previous products that was originally sold without DRM under this premise, and to do so while still claiming to be 'DRM-free'.

My comment isn't about whether or not it justifies a refund (I also very much doubt that lazydog will have any success with his request); just that it is very disrespectful and unethical of GOG to do this.

I disagree that I'm not entitled to a refund. I didn't play the game, and probably never intended to. I used money instead to hold up The Witcher 3 as an example of a game done right, particularly a AAA game, being DRM-free, consumer friendly, and all that jazz. I paid CDPR for making the games marketplace a better place.

And now neither of those are true. CDPR is trying to make the games industry worse than ever, and The Witcher 3 is now an example of hubris overloaded and certainly not an example of how to do a game right.

What I paid for no longer exists in any form.
If you were to inspect the code for The Witcher 3, you would find DRM checks in it. Therefor, it is DRMed and not DRM-free. It doesn't matter that some parts of it are not.

Would I? If I installed v1.32 (the version I purchased) on an air-gapped PC, you're saying it wouldn't work because some of the content in v1.32 has DRM checks.

Anyway, I think what you have learnt here is that you shouldn't expect companies to uphold either your values or the values that they held five, ten or fifteen years ago. I suspect we're not going to agree on this, but your reasons for a purchase are irrelevant to whether you're entitled to a refund. I don't believe you are and (in the same way I'm not going to be able to persuade you that I'm right) you won't be able to persuade me that you are.

Or even what they're advertising today, in this case

gog are finished as a serious DRM free influence, that is no outside bet.
A refund request is not a bridge too far.

Unless of course you know of some other way of cancelling a licence agreement?

How? Because they released some free cosmetic DLC with drm? Last I checked GOG is still 99% DRM free. Guess all those DRM free games release this week mean nothing.

... in a store that built its reputation on and continues to promise DRM-free and purports to be actively fighting against DRM. "DRM-free" means there shouldn't be any DRM at all, not "only a little DRM"!

Look, if you're really feel entitled to effectively having played the game for free because of a different version of the game that has been released years later - power to you. I don't see that as fair, but I'm not the one you need to convince.

I've got some ice cream that's 99% dog-poo-free, want some? ;)

gog is not 99% drm free. It's way less than that, first I will not even mention gog supporting drm epic games on the galaxy store which is theirs. They have an online only game with gwent, several games that have online have drm requiring galaxy, several games with extra content have drm.

And the more people tolerate and make excuses for this, the worse it'll get.

I don't know, as I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. And regardless of what your goal is, I myself just don't feel entitled to such a refund, even if it's just means to another end. I don't feel that wanting to protest GOG action entitles me to getting money back in this case. I'm not trying to stop you, or talk you out of it. I just explained my own stance on the matter.