Dear cdpr

I don't know if I should say that. I think Gog should allow games with DRM on the shelf, which will attract more games to settle in, so Gog can have more games.

I suppose you’re entitled to your opinion and all. But if you are okay with drm just use steam. There’s not really any reason to buy games here other than the fact that they are drm free.

I can't explain it, but I have this strange feeling that community here will not like the idea :-P.

Not to be mean to you or anything, but: (Note to all: YT link with sound....relevant bit from start til around 6 seconds)
================================= You forgot the fixes(yeah many are from other parties, but still...) they add to make games run for many people out of the box, the support(as it is), etc.
================================ *Understatement of the year*

Yeah, you probably could've kept that one to yourself.

I even thought of some "fun" ways to rewrite it for varying industries:
(Some may be hit or miss, and/or need a bit of polishing up)

"Dear home building companies:

I don't know if I should say that. I think you should allow wood with mold and/or rot in your homes, which will allow more homes to be built, so you can sell more homes."

"Dear ship builders:

I don't know if I should say that. I think shipbuilders should make use of cheap steel, which will give more money to more steel companies, and allow you to build more ships"

"Dear hospitals:

I don't know if I should say that. I think you doctors should allow healthy people around sick people, which will cause more to get sick, so you can sell more medicine and medical services."

They’ve already been doing it for years, especially with DRM-gated multiplayer.
Now they even have games that require a permanent Internet access.

DRM-Free may discourage some devs from bringing their games here, but allowing DRM here and killing off GOG's Unique Selling Point (an immensely bad idea) still doesn't solve the other main issues of:-

1. Laziness, aka, "Sigh. Do I HAVE to support more than one store, rewrite all those Steam achievements for Galaxy, engage in two lots of support forums instead of one, push two lots of patches instead of one? Why can't people just buy my games on Steam?" attitude by developers / publishers. Many games on this list, eg, Heretic, Hexen, etc, aren't on GOG despite being able to be run without the Steam client (due to disabling Steam's DRM) and games on that list sold by Humble are missing the DRM-Free builds clearly for reasons other than lacking store-level DRM. And most of the +27,500 out of 30,000 games on Steam that have Steam's DRM aren't sold on other DRM'd stores (uPlay, Origin, etc), so lack of store-level DRM isn't even the main reason why many Steam games aren't on Origin, etc, either.

2. "Exclusive Fiefdoms". There's a reason why you can't buy Mass Effect 3 / Dragon Age Inquisition on Steam or Half Life 2 / Portal on Origin. When the largest game publishers start running their own stores, it just fuels "the exclusive problem" for self-made content. This is likely to get worse with the push for "Games As A Service" and / or wanting 100% of micro-transaction revenue vs only 70% (that for games like Fortnite, etc, is regularly more than what they'd get for selling it at $60 without MT's).

3. The "I want all my games in one place / No-Steam, No-Buy" crowd. GOG could offer the exact same catalogue that Steam does complete with the same level of DRM, but the Steam branding addiction / fanboyism will still run strong. The bottom line is - "The Steam Model" was designed from the start to create a "captive audience". See how angry some are at Epic because some publishers have chosen to not sell their games on "my store" like some co-dependent relationship.

There are probably other reasons too, but DRM isn't even the main reason why GOG / Epic / uPlay / Origin aren't Steam. It's simply Steam "got there first" and developed a Monopsony on the back of a "captive audience" by increasingly encouraging locking game features to one specific store by default that then increases future workload on game developers by forcing them to rewrite chunks of their game if they want to support other stores with same feature set, in a way that prior store-neutral physical retail discs (that were identical for everyone) never did. And a lot of people have basically become as addicted to that (and those "social features") as they have Facebook.

GOG is an alternative to Steam because it does things differently, if tomorrow they start selling games with DRM they will just become an inferior version of Valve's platform.

Besides retro gaming, DRM FREE is the main reason why people are using GOG, people who do not mind DRM shouldn't feel ashamed of using something else.

Everyone pretty much covered all the points, but I'll just add my 2 cents.

When you first login, the line I see on the front page "We are GOG.COM, the DRM-free home", well that's the whole reason for me being here.

If you add DRM games, doesn't it invalidate the whole point of GOG existing?

If you mean the game I think you mean, there is a button to play it without internet access.

All discussions of DRM and how bad it is aside, that would basically result in there being no difference between GOG and Steam, which wouldn't benefit GOG in any way really.

It might allow gabe to buy some more tubs of ice cream and chicken, or Tim Sweeney to buy some....um....social credit score points? ;)

Não! No! Nein!

If you mean the card game gwent, then yes, it does require an internet connection to play.
The "core principle" of never being locked away from your purchases, don't really apply here as the game itself is free.

But with the way they have been pushing the galaxy launcher makes me think it is only a matter of time before they go full speed ahead with the drm because "everyone else is doing it".