I understand why. The stupidometer is all over the charts for some comments....
They propably wanna try and keep the review trolls away.

Yea lets CDPR work for free.....fkn kids these days

At least it also keeps the shills at bay

Meh. :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCiFO7qV54E

That is a universally known form of DRM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always-on_DRM

Why accuse people of making things up if you have no idea what you are talking about yourself?

The game IS and multiplayer online game, that is the core gameplay mode! As such it HAS to be online! The DRM definition does not aply here. It would be like calling an out an MMO for beaing always online to play.

Should I try Gwent?
I'm a bit afraid of microtransactions..
Also, this game requires Galaxy I imagine.
O_o'

Amazing how people "expand" the definition of drm or outright doesnt even knowwhat drm is but love to use it to justify their paranoia "GOG will start selling games with drm people!" haha!

I believe you just answered your own question. :)

Meh.

Not only galaxy, it also requires you to register a separate account at cdpr (or maybe you can login with your gog credentials there, don't remember the details). But at least you don't have to fear microtransactions. They are clearly labeled as such, the rest depends on your willpower. I had no trouble with resisting/avoiding them.

Only having online game modes is not DRM in itself. However it is the way the game handles accounts and save data that makes it DRM. All your progress is stored on a server, and can only be accessed by logging in through a specific account. Everything is locked to that account. This works as a type of copy-protection, you do not own your copy of the game in the same way as you do with any other game you find on GOG, which can be installed and played without any GOG-account. The GoG account is only needed to make the purchase.

With a truly DRM-free game, such as Witcher 3 for example, you can (if you want to) edit your save game to give yourself any weapon, item, ability or stat that you want. If you do something like this in Gwent, you will likely get banned.

This type of account-locked content and the game essentially being an SaaS is a very common practice in free-to-play games (and increasingly also in pay-to-play games) so I am not surprised to see that Gwent, being free-to-play and account locked purchases is how they generate income, uses this aswell (after all, they have to generate income somehow). But I am surprised to see the game on GOG, since GOG claims to be a fully DRM-free store. (I know GOG is owned by CD Project Red, the maker of Gwent, but that does not change the fact that Gwent is a DRM game on a store that claims to be DRM-free.)

TLDR: Gwent uses account-locked DRM, which is a type of always-online DRM, meaning the game is controlled by a server rather than the one playing it. It has no place on a DRM-free store like GOG.

We had an overpriced turd by the name of Hello Neighbor scheduled for today, but it has been pushed back to December. You can still pre-order it and get instant access to an out-of-date beta.

HOWEVER, there is a glimmer hope: In about 4 hours from now, a Korean horror sidescroller by the name of "The Coma" will be released.

^This. As for the actual release, i can understand that since it's a CDPR game it's only natural for these DLCs/cards/decks/whatever to be sold here and i don't have a problem with that (i'll just look away and nothing happened) but i'd really hate to have to "swim" through an ocean of F2P-microtransaction-filled games just to find the GOGs i like.

If I missed a reply above sorry, forum is broken. Another sad turn of events, but I am not surprised. The client was a bad turn, bringing in half finished shivelware in the form of indev and "indie" games which continue to plague the weekly releases, wine endless patching comes a need for a client. Oh look, we have a client what else can we do, I know route all multiplayer through that, make it easy and can link up with steam, if it doesn't work in a few years who cares. Now comes the second wave, we have this client which a large customer base uses/has no idea how to work without, captive market, lets monetise it. Micro transactions, endless dlc, mmo's, ccg's (which are the current in vogue money spinners) etc. And look at where we have got to folks, a pale imitation of steam, a client focused approach to gaming which incorporates all the shitty industry ideas of the gaming industry but without the vast catalog of the aforementioned other store. Joy to the world, all these improvements keep on coming, what next, absolved with always on connection, cyberpunk as streamed only pay per texture?