How many games have you bought the last year?

Thanks, you're on the list!

Yep, as usual - ignore and hope it goes away.

You have no idea what anybody on 'the list' cares about. The people on the list have not requested to be removed and GOG have not addressed any of the listed issues. This thread and the boycott will stay alive until they do.

On GOG, none.

Since your question is general and not GOG-specific - it's possible that I bought McPixel on Humble less than a year ago (I'm not sure when that was).

Other than that, none.


Not that I have any reason to prove myself to you or anything, but since you asked, there it is.

Still on the list and still care about a few issues. Still haven't bought anything from GOG since December 2020.

I do however enjoy games and discussing games so I continue to post on the boards from time to time. I have plenty of things keeping me busy outside of games so it's a bit sporadic. I still play what I have when there's time and I still buy physical.

Just throwing my two cents in to say all of this stuff still matters to me even if I'm mostly silent. Discuss all you like about "if it matters" but it matters to me, so I'm good with just that.

Then you are in the wrong group as this group still buys games from GoG while claiming that they are "boycotting".

No I'm not. I fully agree with the issues stated by Time4Tea in the OP.

Well said. I share your sentiments. I too remain silent. And have not purchased a single game on GOG since Hitman.

@anyone: where are you primarily buying games currently (if you're even buying games)? Are you buying DRM-free games on Steam?

Why does it matter?

I am buying DRM-free/client-free games on steam (and steam key resellers). Bought more than 200 so far (in the last year or so, since I more or less left GOG) --- kept about 100 and gifted more than 100.

It's not easy to determine ahead of time whether a game is DRM-free/client-free on steam (out of the box or after simple non-game-specific file manipulations), so I do occasionally come across a few that aren't --- so far, there have three (3) non-DRM-free/client-free games (out of 96). I have simply chalked this down to experience and deleted the games from my library (trivial to do on steam).

I can easily live with the occasional game that I have to delete in this way, because steam games are immensely cheaper that GOG games (due to numerous key bundles). The 200+ games that I have bought cost me a total of $179 (by comparison, the average price of a game in my GOG library is somewhere between $4 and $5, i.e. about 5 times more expensive, not counting gifts I have given to others).

If you did, then you would still be buying games from GOG just like he stated he was. You see... you can't be claiming that you are boycotting something while you're still buying from that same store that you say you're boycotting. You state that you aren't buying games from GoG. Time4Tea states he is. Water and oil do not mix.
Ahh... so you endorse DRM then.

No, I do not. I am DRM-agnostic. I neither endorse nor oppose it.

I don't much care whether a game is DRM-free or not, as long as I can fully play it as often as I want without a client and without an internet connection. That is what I used to get on GOG. That is what I get now on steam. The fact that there are other games --- on both steam and GOG --- that I cannot fully play without a client and without an internet connection is neither here nor there for me.

The reasons for my buying games on GOG never had much to do with DRM-freedom.

Some are 0 games account, that only said something one time in this thread.
Some have been deleted or renamed.
Some havn't been on GoG for like years - and just logged in to get on the list.
Some have bought a good amount of games in the meantime.
Some of them are very well known trolls who try to use every opportunity to start a fire and who are very likely to use the nice downvote botting system to their own "fun" (or should I say - "nice people you got there").

None of those has posted here in months.
Doesn't look like they care.

I can count the number of posts between May 22 and June 4.
This thread is dead and only a few bump it every now and then.

And that the forum does not care about this thread - well, it is place one on the hot topic list and still ignored.

There is no DRM free on steam.
There is only client free - AFTER you downloaded AND installed the game with whatever client you use, that is using closed source Steam-Code and is supporting Steam DRM.

And with closing the last options to get the mods out of steamwork steam just got much more "sympathetic",right?

But nice to see, that boycotting GoG to get GoG becoming more DRM free leads to supporting the more or less founder DRM at another place.

My DRM boycott was always - I never had a steam account, or Triton, or Impulse, or Ubi whatever or Origin or Battlenet or how they are all (or have been) named.
I simply didn't bought at all.

So don't mind when I call whatever you want to sell me here pathetic.

You buy from Steam therefore you support DRM. It's really not that difficult.

Thanks for responding. I was kinda hoping others would respond too, because I actually remembered what you were doing based on previous responses.