Mori_Yuki: Adding protected or DRM-contaminated games to this store by itself wouldn't be such a big deal, if it wouldn't lead to a fatal problem: Why have company x->sell(DRM) and y->remove(DRM)? Either it's all companies got to remove DRM-measures or everyone is allowed to add and keep however many layers of DRM- and protection measures in and sell their product as is.
Otherwise it is up to we their customers to decide, whether we wish to buy games like Hitman, knowing what we know about its DRM measures. No one is forced to buy such games. In case they don't sell, maybe GOG learns a lesson not trying to covertly add such games.
By now it has become crystal clear what happens when parts of games are locked online. The servers go down? Tough luck! You can no longer progress in your game. Looking at you, Ubisoft, M&M X Legacy, NFS and others. There is also danger with GOG's binding or allowing to bind games to Galaxy. Who is to say how things go? If, in the end, Galaxy ends up dead, what have we then? Lots of games where parts of them one isn't able to use, MP, connection to online single player content and items.
That's why each game not stripped of DRM- or protection measures will potentially lead to a Ubisoft situation. It will also lead to a Hitman situation where IOI decides to shut down, a rather expensive piece of software ends up as demo. This can't be the road GOG will want to take, hoping, that if it doesn't work out for them they will be able to recover. Too many things happened which should not have, in too short an amount of time, for this to be possible.
The only hope is that management will change their minds. In the short term they can do without customers to make their shareholders and investors thrive, but without customers this isn't going to take long for them to be down and out. GOG seems to keep working hard to get there sooner rather than later. In the end we would all lose, that's something management should think about, before making what amounts to bad decisions in the eyes of their customers, the most important people.
I think it would work as long as they didn't do what they just did with Hitman, as it clearly is not a "DRM-FREE" product. That GOG doesn't appreciate the significance of that is a pretty good indication that it's incapable of communicating in good faith.
