You might want to inform yourself a bit better before passing off as an ignorant clown.

Hint : there are MUCH MORE than that blocked by the always-online DRM of the game.

While, not wrong to point the finger to Feral, don't forget:

Feral is just a contract worker!

therefore - sorry, to tussle your frills .. not -:

GOG not pushing and the creators not demanding is worth a finger pointing as well.

Just make it clear, what I'm taking about and why:
Creators and/or publishers go to them (Feral and the like) and give them direct access to developers, code and assets of the game in question and *contract* them to to create a *port*, i.e. (more technically correct) an API/ABI conversion. They do *not* do the *development* of the game. If anything they are comparable to a outside - 3rd party - artist like Mick Gordon or some GFX designer or a media designer making your catalog working with sources, assets and
ideas provided to them by the 1st party, they are the proverbial: "A gun for hire."

So creators and/or publishers deciding to go to GOG and provide their product there are not only in *their right*,
but also have an *obligation* to tell them to jump, and their - Feral's - only valid reply is to ask how high.

Want to argue against the "obligation" part? Learn the difference between *consumer* and *customer*. I'm a customer of GOG because of reasons, one of them is they (should) care about me, wishes and my satisfaction.
Consumerism is the basis of the throwaway society.

So Feral want money for that porting? To remove some DRM? To remove some compile time dependencies?
How much would that be?

1st:
They do get a some sales shares - pretty sure they get them for their steam versions.

2nd:
What kind of magic did Feral use to integrate those Steam API - which is the same everywhere - in such a fashion
that it would be *at best* double the costs of getting it from Steam to GOG anyhow?
And that's even *IF* they even were the ones who did the work which they aren't as it is 1st party creator's
job to create that. I'll grant them touch-up here and there a patch, because I hope they better use a SCM/VCS like
git in conjunction with their client to push back any changes an patching they did on the general code base!
Otherwise welcome in patch hell, because they did a shite job, get rid of them *now*.

So it still stands:

No Tux - No Bucks!

P.S.: If pushing and demanding doesn't work: How about be so f'ing open and tell us, your customers?! Otherwise I will ride you to hell and back as well.

Edit: PG17 -> PG15

The case that GOG censors and pulls off games for political reasons (i.g. for making fun of China and every country in Countryball Heroes) or removed Devotion (because of "many players were upset") while allowing DRMful Hitman GOTY, who really upsets the community, is dispicable. GOG acted swiftly to censor the 2 games, but slow to solve an actual issue on the store who was positioning itself as DRM Free. No vegan restaurant is vegan if it sells animal meat, no DRM Free store is free if it has DRM, that's all.

Why is it not transparent on what exactly it's trying to do to fix it and how it's going? I am worry if it just want to outwait it and do nothing.

Infidel! How dare you speak ill of our savior Jack Keane!!
No, seriously, he did save us back then. There we all were, at very late hours of night, desperately needing sleep yet glued to our screens anyway, when suddenly Jack Keane comes in and holds the queue. At the glacial speed it got to selling he gave me the confidence to go to bed and sleep soundingly, knowing I wouldn't lose any offers.
I woke up fresh and renovated and just waited one more hour until that last copy was snatched by you. A lot of people in that Insomnia thread said they weren't fired for sleeping on the job thanks to Jack Keane.

I LOL'd. +1

The Keaning was happening. Remember those times fondly. A very quircky and fun time for GOG( Good old Games back in those days), except for that progress bar on the Jack Keane 2 copies :D. Cheers

Somewhere at an office, in the galaxy far away:

Our Galaxy must be in your head
Why don't you want it, our bread?
Goodbye offline, hi always online
Path of DRM, of conquer & divide

Voices of others will not be heard
Who cares? Another game aboard
Let's settle a little distraction
Forget this miscalculation

A discount is our action
Galaxy for satisfaction

I didn't even like the insomnia sales, and I still look back on them fondly now - like you said, GOG was just a much nicer, more fun and lighthearted place. More friendly, a bit more zany, not nearly so corporate and soulles.

So starting somewhere slightly different with Clown outfits, Baseball Bats and Golden Guns? In a single player offline experience most of that is rubbish that isn't going to impact playing through the games story. Most of it is immersion breaking fluff. Sounds like people doing their best to make a big deal out of nothing. The USER CREATED content and LEADERBOARDS this Hitman game touts would REQUIRE going to a server to download it. What's the solution there GOG boycotters? There is none and you happily skip over that part of the argument. There's no way around it and I see no one suggesting anything beyond boycotting GoG and removing the Game. The most suggested course of action is remove the game. This coming from majority of people happily buying DRM infested games on steam and elsewhere.

Looking at this thread it clearly shows people don't want a remedy for this situation they just want to see the world burn like all them twitter mobs. If I could see reasoned balanced arguments in this thread without people being burning at the stake for giving a reasoned argument while downvoting them into the ground maybe I'd be more sympathetic. Anyone on the middle ground on this issue gets downvoted so its pointless debating it in any reasonable fashion. It's a lose lose situation where some people are just jumping on here to spouting how they already stopped buying games on gog and demonising them while filling their boots with steam games. That's the internet for you. They don't understand the concept of irony and being a hypocrite.

We have plenty of Boycotters outing themselves as people who buy games on steam and other platforms which are infested in DRM with lame excuses such as "their DRM is helpful DRM" LOL. Steam has literally hundreds of games on there with extremely intrusive DRM such as DENUVO. You want to experience truly awful DRM that can damage your hard drive, cause performance issues and prevents offline play with activation limits than carry on Supporting Steam and them other platforms with all the DRM they allow on their released games.

The same boycotters here will happily spend money on Steam and other DRM infested platforms while kicking off here as if they are doing us all a favour. Steam that platform where unless you made sure your in offline mode before disconnecting from the internet none of your games will work and even than only SOME will work .People here have already exposed their rampant hypocrisy freely telling us they buy games from Steam, Origin, Uplay, Microsoft and other platforms with intrusive DRM. Their EXCUSE is "well their DRM is nice helpful DRM" NO don't pretend your pro consumer and a Paladin of all things good here if you buy games on them other platforms. Intrusive DRM wouldn't exist if most PC gamers only bought games on GOG.

MOST people who knew about GOG bought games on other DRM infested platforms. GOG was purely useful to them people for the re-releases of Old Games that would NEVER EVERRRRR have been re-released without CD-REDS time, hard work and dedication. No Bladerunner, Silent Hill 4 or Blood Omen without GOG to name just a few off the top of my head. Plenty of games would be lost to time without GOG.

I am honestly surprised it took GOG so long to cave into allowing any games with any type of DRM on their site given that it must have cost them hundreds of thousands over the years by dis-allowing all games with any DRM. Their selling point as a DRM free site has had virtually no impact on Steam and other DRM sites. People still happily bought from both. If we as consumers are not taking a stand on DRM why should anyone else? especially when it costs them money? GOG was the only real DRM free alternative for PC gaming and people didn't flock here in their millions to support them for it. Instead More DRM infested platforms got released and millions of people supported them new platforms like Steam Origin, uplay among others.

Stark raving mad trolls are boring, and when lying so openly as you're doing they are extremely obvious.

0/10 much like the same score I'd give this DRM'd version of Hitman if I could review it with zero stars.

I've seen many posts about other stores and "DRM free" games available there, but they're missing the point IMO

there are no DRM free games on Steam, Epic and so on, you may be able to very easily bypass the DRM and the DRM may be only applied to the installation process (just like CD-KEYs used to), but it is still there and you still have to take additional actions to get rid of it

the binaries supplied by game creator may be DRM free, but the final release is not, which is quite funny seeing how Valve was all like "of course we agree DRM is bad" not so long ago

Thank you for proving my point. It's a out of 5 Star system.

If you've not been here for a while, then maybe your time would be better served researching the current state of affairs first?

DRM on GOG: list of single-player games with DRM

I have never had a Steam account and never intend to. Yes, that means I never have (and will likely never be able to) play Half Life 2. But it also means I don't have any paid-for content tied up a company that holds both game players and game developers in contempt.
Well, I'm one of the boycotters and I've never purchased anything from the stores you list. I haven't (and don't intend to) buy anything using Denuvo and have gone further in boycotting any Sony hardware and software (this in response to the 2006 Sony Rootkit Scandal - I'm not in the market for a Playstation but would have otherwise bought Sony A/V equipment). The very few boycotters who have mentioned Steam explicitly state they would buy DRM-free titles there only.
Yes, GOG deserve praise for bringing back old games (and plenty of us have collections in the hundreds). But the GOG of today is different and has given multiple signs of heading towards the dark side, such as:
* relentless promotion of Galaxy, including exclusive content;
* selling DRMed games through Galaxy courtesy of Epic;
* modification of company mission statement, removing or downplaying DRM-free commitment;
* refusal to remove or fix other single-player games containing DRM (e.g. Absolver).

I would urge you to take the time to review matters, not least since your own future choice in DRM-free gaming could be adversely affected by GOG's new policies.
Having taken the time to review those threads (was it really 7 years ago?) and in particular, TeT's and Judas' replies, and considering what has happened since, I'd now consider their actions to be justified - prioritising DRM-free over "One World" pricing. Since then, we've seen several "second-tier" publishers - THQ (2015), Stardock (2015) and Paradox (2015) join GOG. Even EA has made titles available (Dragon Age Origins, Spore, Dead Space) and it seems pretty unlikely they would have done so without regional pricing.

Also, it does seem just possible that this whole Hitman debacle is a mistake on both GOG and IOI's part (say if GOG failed to review Hitman fully before accepting it, and IOI's business team were not fully aware of Hitman's offline restrictions). In such a case, the fine details of GOG's contract with IOI will come under intense scrutiny and this may be the reason why neither side have been prepared to disclose details publicly - a full blown dispute could take months to resolve and could impose significant legal costs on an already loss-making GOG.

The above is offered as a possible explanation, not justification, for the events we are seeing - and GOG's other actions do tend to swing things away from cockup towards conspiracy. But, like with the end of the "One World" pledge, it could take a couple of years to fully assess the effects.

Can't tell if trolling or stupid.

As someone that bought and left a positive review i'm going to have to disagree with you there, mission loadouts were a staple of the series and should not have been locked behind online drm, furthermore starting locations and outfits greatly increase the replayability of each map by giving you alternative ways to insert agent 47. (the clown outfit was a reference to "a new life" if i remember correctly)

Now on that we agree on, leaving gog for steam because of drm is like trying to escape the rise of authoritarianism in the west by moving to China.

Lastly i'd like to add that it would be great if gog can figure something out so that we can keep this game on here as it is one of the best games in the franchise and deserves a drm free release.

I agree with you in so far as that supporting rental services like Scheme, EA O-rent-gin, U-Rent, MicrosoftDRM store, etc is not helping and I would even opine that it is actively harmful to DRM-free gaming when people support these places. So I myself don't support them and if you have seen my posts I am often trying to steer people away from them! However, keep in mind that "the boycotters" are not a hive mind. I don't know if anyone fits this description exactly but as a hypothetical example consider that someone may be boycotting over Devotion being rejected from sale and not really care about DRM-free cause at all.

Separate from that though, I am weary of the rationale you allude to at the beginning of what I quoted here. This is GOG's store. It's not like IOI hacked in to secretly sell the game against GOG's will. GOG shouldn't have needed to investigate anything. The game simply shouldn't have been brought here with ANYTHING restricted behind online connection. This is another hypocrisy you will often see where people get up in arms about singleplayer DRM but merrily accept multiplayer DRM. A DRM-free store in my opinion shouldn't make any compromises. Games with DRM, which to me very obviously includes online-gated content, should be fixed or removed from sale.