Psyringe: I'm not sure if I understood correctly, but this sounds like you're claiming that Gamersgate persuaded a developer to use SecuRom DRM. If so, then I'd be very surprised - I've never heard of GamersGate encouraging DRM, and it's somewhat contrary to statements I heard from GG members. Could you elaborate?
Leroux: I don't know any details and I'm not quite sure what to think of it myself, but from the part of the developers it sounded not necessarily as if Gamersgate was persuading them, more like they didn't have any clue at all and that SecuRom was the default option, and they didn't know they could opt out of it. Or maybe they chose to this option themselves without knowing there were alternatives. In any case they didn't put the DRM in the game, Gamersgate did that for them.
EDIT: Here's the original quote from reply I got by e-mail:
Hmm yeah you're right about GamersGate, seems they have both DRM and DRM-free games. I guess we've just gone by default there. Perhaps we'll remove the DRM if we deliver an updated or patched version later on. Sorry for the late reply. I asked GamersGate about this incident, and about their general stance towards DRM, and got a reply mere hours later. Unfortunately my keyboard broke and I didn't relay the info to here, which I'm doing now.
Generally, according to said GamersGate official, the process is like this:
1. GamersGate tries to encourage publishers to release games DRM free.
2. However, many publishers insist on using DRM, and ultimately it's always the publisher who's calling the shots, not GamersGate.
3. If a publisher wants a game to have DRM, but didn't add that DRM to the game by themselves so far (for whatever reason), then GamersGate is able to do that. It's not something that GamersGate encourages publishers to do, but rather a service that's there for those publishers who request it.
I didn't talk to the person who talked with the devs of the game you mentioned, but I think the info above is clear enough to conclude that there apparently had been a misunderstanding between these devs and GamersGate, as we already suspected.
