https://www.zoom-platform.com/#store is also DRM-free.

This guy's just here to be the hater, really. I've met him on a few different posts already just slandering the FOSS community as a whole, apparently because someone, at some point, slighted him by not doing what he wanted, and he couldn't make his own spin, so he went off the deepend.
How did i not see that until now?

Irrelevant. We'd have a whole lot more if they wouldn't stick with no DRM as well. As far as I'm concerned, games with regions paying more than base price or regional blocks aren't here, definitely nothing I'd ever consider buying. That whole package, striving to change the industry in order to do away with both DRM and practices that treat buyers of digital copies of products differently depending on their location, was why I came here and got off the "high seas", not one part of it over another, and therefore stopped considering GOG as worth supporting when they gave up on those principles.
And otherwise that list john_hatcher posted is indeed a good one of what GOG should be doing. May well be in addition to something like this though, not instead.

That said, it's still nice to see them try to pull off another initiative on this sole remaining value they (claim to) have, though admittedly when I saw the announcement, as a few others pointed out already, I was afraid of another "good news" moment.
And no, not bothered by the language in the least. Wouldn't be anyway, but those who support DRM don't deserve more consideration, and it does make for more of an impact and possibly potential to become viral.
They do need to add more sources of DRM free content there, and it would indeed be a test for them to see more digital games stores added right away. At least Fireflower should clearly be there. Think Zoom too, based on what I saw here, but otherwise only know that it exists so can't personally vouch for anything.

Wondering what will come of this initiative though. Remember a post on their... Tumblr was it? Asking users for help to further the DRM free revolution (remember that logo?). Didn't seem like much actually happened then. Not in the good sense at least.

Many thanks GOG for taking a stand against these corrupted companies that are under the guise of helping the consumer. These companies have gone too far and they are getting greedier each year.

I hate DRM. It's like shopping for something and what I get in return is my product bundled with handcuffs and headaches.

"What do you mean I can only play my music on my designated mp3 player!? I've got a boombox next to my toilet that's just itching to blast some tunes."

"In order to proceed with the installation of my newly-purchased game, I must agree to having my computer injected with a sophisticated super-gonorrhea malware in the event that I may not be a loyal customer!? WTF!"

DRM. I avoid it like the plague. Spending my hard-earned cash on restrictions is never a good bargain.

PS: Contacted Fireflower and Zoom to ask if they'd be interested to get listed. Would also be a test for GOG, to see whether they would list them if so.

Well Piss off and go back to shteam then, Toodles don't let the fly screen door hit you on the backside on the way out *-Thwack-*

FWIW GOG do give out free games where they could have charged money for it

Thank you, GOG.

I remember well when StarForce DRM destroyed my WinXP machine. My mistake was installing a retail box copy of Still Life that I bought from a local software store. Upon contacting them, StarForce blamed me and said that their DRM was "100% safe" and could not cause physical damage to a computer.

Fortunately, GOG came along a few years later and I was able to play Still Life without fear of losing an expensive piece of equipment to the evil that is DRM.

I want to personally BEAT THE SH!T out of the person who made gamefly and starforce DRM, The same Morons who worked at gamefly and practically locked me out of my Full copy of Oblivion and when I got it back they screwed up the DLC I had it was swapped over to Borderlands DLC somehow so here I am with Oblivion and F***ING borderlands DLC for it yay stupid F***s.

GOG - Is an awesome and friendly service with great value, If you think GOG don't care about customers then your the fool, Buy a game and get games worth up to 30 quid free etc and you think they want to sucker people ? How and their games are DRM free too.

Yeah well I’ve used it and .deb files from an older version of Debain-based OS such as Ubuntu or Mint can not be installed without breaking packages. As for what Linus said I don’t really follow him but it wouldn't be the first time a Linux fanboy has lied about something. But if anyone has doubts by all means I encourage people to try Linux for themselves.


Not true, I myself have two computers running Windows and thus far have no accounts with Microsoft. The second computer is air-gaped meaning it’s not connected to the internet at all. Meanwhile without internet neither the package-manager or the index will be able to download the correct dependencies needed to get programs to work. There is no offline method to do this either.
Most games on GOG run through Windows nativity with only pre-98 stuff using emulators. Some other stuff uses wrappers and this was all before Direct X came into the fold which is understandable. Wine is not an emulator because emulators don’t traditionally use dll from the system they’re trying to ape. Wine is the worst thing I’ve ever had to deal with. It’s like someone was trying to make an emulator and then gave up half way. I still can’t get Fear, a game from 2007 to work property in it and as I mentioned before when using Wine you’re using guanine Windows DLL files. I though the whole point of Linux was to get away from Windows.

This comment was a response to the fact that FCK-DRM has affiliate links to GNU/Linux. I bet you’ve never heard of, or used these distributions. https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

If I fck drm, the kids will be darma. And that's just not an initiative I can get behind.

Quite a name....

It's not slander if it's true and Linux suffers from deprecation. Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away. Linux is the future.
Thanks for sharing. I thought GOG was the only one.

Your issue is deprecation? If so, the real solution to that can only be in the FOSS community, just as freedom can only be solved by DRM-free, because with DRM (and closed source), deprecated things can be forced away, instead of just called deprecated. I had a few windows programs that i wrote that that happened to. Now, if you really want to solve the deprecation issue, I have some ideas i'm willing to discuss, but GOG is not likely to be a place where we can solve them, because i've tried making posts about it before, here. Everything suffers from deprecation, even Java (by which is where Java's biggest weakness comes from).
Please, for the love of all that's holy, clarify what you mean here, because it sounds really bad.