Exactly, that is the best, no more DRM, now we have to go for CDP and the exclusive content from Cyberpunk 2077!!!
Yeah, I always try to see the best on people, and personally I'm very happy with the treatment I recived through GOG Support, so we have to agree we disagree, the important is that everything is getting better and probably in the future many other games will remove they DRM measures :)

That's true. But, their involvement is clearer, since Hello Games is the developer - they have clearly done the work to remove the DRM and released a patch to fix it. What GOG Support told you about Wasteland 3 is probably more than they have said about No Man's Sky in the past 3 months. I agree that, regarding Wasteland it seems they did have a hand and I do give them credit for that.

But, given their lack of communication over the past 3 months, their involvement with No Man's Sky is much less clear. I know some GOG users have approached Hello Games independently, to ask for the DRM to be removed (there are comments about that on the wishlist request. So, it is possible that Hello Games may have acted based on user feedback, without GOG's involvement.

You seem to be willing to give GOG the benefit of the doubt. But, I am not, given their other recent actions related to Devotion, pre-order bonuses in Cyberpunk (and CDPR's general dishonesty) and their lack of willingness to address other games on the store that have DRM. As far as I'm concerned, if they want credit for this, they need to speak up and claim it (if they even care).

Yeah, the removal of this issue is a very good thing and all, but the fact no one from GOG even graced this thread with their presence to tell us of this development to score some good free good PR points with the community shows how little they care, and strongly suggests they had nothing to do with it, and possibly don't even know about it.

They don't seem to publicize their removals of (what I imo rightfully call) DRM, or if they do, they are very brief about it and move on. It's good that they are resolving Support tickets that people open about these matters but in cases like this and Wasteland 3 I don't know how the general users are supposed to know about the issue itself, let alone if it gets resolved. Sniper Ghost Warrior removing Easy AntiConsumer I don't think had a post from staff. I am not recalling if the Deus Ex Mankind Divided DRM removal had a comment from staff or not.

It is not a good look. GOG imo should be much more loud and in-your-face about removing DRM and keeping it off the store (hard to do when something like "My Rewards" in the flagship game is textbook DRM). I imagine they are not wanting to hurt relationships with developers and publishers but over the time I have been here, the lack of focus on DRM-free offline installers seems to have grown greater and the instances of DRM or otherwise anti-consumer content have grown in number. Change it up, GOG.

It took me a few days to start a new save and reach the anomaly( not much time to play these days sadly) but I'm happy to confirm that DRM has indeed been removed from the game ;) You have to start a new game to see the new items but everything is now available offline! Thanks Hello Games and GOG ;)

Are you sure about this?

Btw since an ew update dropped which features new kind of eggs for the companion, I would suggest doing some tests to see if this can be done offline as well, since we are talking about a new anomaly egg.

Let's hope to be full fleged offline compatible.

I'm 100% sure about it ;) The quicksilver items were never there before, but after starting a new game with 3.15 update, they are available. I only use offline installers and never installed Galaxy ,so totally offline.
As for the new content, I will keep you updated once they update the installers and I can find a little time to play ;)

Just to be sure, quicksilver were done through daily missions during offline play or by other means?
If ths is true then it's incredibly huge, never thought that Hello Games would do this fix anymore.
Also thanks for updating on the matter whenever you find time! :)

Quicksilver is mainly obtained through online daily missions ( there are offline procedural missions in the anomaly but they grant you other rewards). However, you can also obtain quicksilver offline in some story missions and random events. So you can somehow unlock QS items offline. It is just much slower than if you play online ;)

So if that is true, this is a fudge, and not a full 100% clean break DRM-removal...isn't it?

Because if those quoted statements are accurate, then that means the DRM-using players get to receive a premium experience of enjoying the game, whereas in contrast, non-DRM-using player get an inferior experience and are put at a disadvantage compared to their DRM-using counterparts.

If I'm understanding that correctly as per how I just paraphrased the issue, then this problem isn't over, and GOG customers need to keep complaining about it until the DRM-free experience of playing this game is patched to be on a 100% equal level playing field to the DRM'ed experience of playing this game.

This is a big step in the right direction I think ;) At least nothing seems to be locked for offline players now. I don't know if making some unlocks easier for rewarding online play can be considered DRM.
At least it shows that Hello games has listened to players feedback. Hopefully they will bring more way to earn QS offline in the future! But still, there's an insane amount of content in the game right now ( and more coming for free in the future) .

not very premium, you have to play with other people.... see it as compensation

"Oh, god... yes, I'm sorry, you have to play with that dickwad... here, have some more quicksilver"

Mmmh, I remember that quicksilver gain were a fixed, on time only reward, which only during some events decided by hello games, allowed you to gain for a limited period of time some quicksilver (there was one during october iirc, which allowed you to get quicksilver by scavenging shipwrecks), but after that period ends no more quicksilver.

I really wonder how much quicksilver can be gotten while offline, and if the living ship quesstline properly works (along the new eggs introduced by the companion update), since the costs to pay in quicksilver is a bit too much, and I realy can't put into the equation a limite time or unreliable solution, imho.

A step in the right solution indeed, but I still don't understand why not just enabling daily missions while offline, it's clear that they are bunbdled and rotate in the game, with online serving only as a useless check in.

On the bright side, the offline shop updated on par with the "online" version should make things simpler, hopefully.

I may be wrong, as I don't have the game, but from what I understand, you only have to play online, not with other people. You can ignore other people.

I always ignore other people....