Time4Tea: The locked cosmetics in Cyberpunk are new and represent a new low with CDPR's own games. They have said they are planning a MP version with microtransactions. The deal with Epic is new. The locked content in Non Man's Sky was relatively new, before the developer fixed it. They just recently took down FCKDRM.com. Obviously, the issue with Devotion is new.
So, I disagree with you. There is a clear pattern of continual erosion of GOG's core pricniples.
Lodium: What i dont get
is why gog is getting away with it in terms of legal sense
If a company have broadcasted they are drm free
and even does so today
but still implement drm or backpaddles on it
this is in essence false advertising
and its really suprising not a single court in Europe or anyone else have started a case on this issue
Courts don't start cases. You need someone to sue GOG for false advertising first. Someone with enough money to fight such a law-suit through multiple instances. GOG was careful enough not to promise 100% DRM-free anymore. They just say, that GOG is the home of curated DRM-free games. Promising "a selection of DRM-free games". ... Which they do. A selection of the games on GOG is still DRM-free.
Moreover they promise: "Here, you won't be locked out of titles you paid for, or constantly asked to prove you own them - this is DRM-free gaming." ... which seems to promise completely DRM-free gaming, right? No, it doesn't. It shows what their definition of 'DRM-free' is in legalese:
1. you won't be locked out of titles you paid for. - Which means DRM on Gwent is OK and also extra content (DLCs) and so on can be locked behind DRM. You still don't get locked out of the base game you paid for. So from a legalese standpoint GOG is in the clear.
2. you won't be constantly asked to prove you own the games - which leaves the door open for occasionally asking you to prove you own the game. As long as it isn't constantly. ... I.e. if you read this with a legal goggle, all this sentence does is promise not to use always-online DRM.
Nowhere does GOG promise nowadays not to use online-registration or to keep all parts of all games DRM-free. They have carefully reworded their 'about us' page towards becoming a DRM-agnostic platform. That makes suing them very difficult.
The only thing that might still be seen as false advertising is the promise, that Galaxy is optional. Which is still there on the 'about us' page. However, even there they removed the '100%'. They don't promise anymore that Galaxy will always be 100% optional. So it's a grey area. They still call it optional, but for many multiplayer-games and some single-player content it isn't. So if you have the funds and time to sue them over false advertising, this might be an angle. But expect a long fight.
There are some other things they promise that look like false promises, because they imply a quality of service that just isn't true. But if you look closely at the wording, everything is so vague that it won't be persecutable in front of a court.
They promise "Stellar support" ... implies good support. But actually means that it is written in the stars, when, how and whether your support tickets will be taken care of.
They state that their support staff is working round the clock. Good luck proving that they don't. Maybe their desks are placed around a clock? So that when they actually do something, they are working around a clock. ;-)
They promise direct contact with the GOG team and that they will get back to you if you contact them. But they don't say when. They don't even promise quick responses. Just that they'll get back to you eventually.
And so on. Their lawyers did a good job re-wording their promises in a way so that they don't actually mean anything.