the best official way to contact gog would be through an official support ticket.

Congrats to all the rjbuffchix, Byte2Bits, mqstout and a few more regular naysayers for burying your, sometimes, valid points in your constant complaining, negativity and aggressiveness... You made me open a thread on the GOG forum for the last time (therefore no need to reply).

Thanks to all the others who engaged in interesting exchanges and tried (and still do) to make joining the forum a positive experience.

Lol. Yeah, because your post is not negative or aggressive at all. And full to the brim with great conversation, arguments and interesting discussion of the topic you are posting in.

“Here is my contribution to the discussion where I just name people I don’t like. Don’t bother responding.”

Thank you! I will submit a support ticket.

There is not half as much constant complaining, negativity and aggressiveness towards DRM on this forum, as there is towards people who complain about DRM :D

Made a post on Reddit. It went about as expected.
send an email to support(at)gog(dot)com

Sure, but the website could do the same thing and have you download installers that need activation. I use Galaxy as a much better downloader and much better collection organizer than the website, and it's just frustrating when people act like that's a bad thing.

Galaxy's fine if it's just an easier installer and library manager. I use Galaxy myself for that (auto-updates are nice!). I wish that's all it were. That it even CAN be used as DRM [let alone that it actually is, such as now in The Witcher 3] is a giant problem. That we constantly get games released with bugs because they were coded Galaxy-first, with the proper standalone version as an afterthought (such as the current giveaway, King of Seas as just one example) is a giant problem.

Galaxy is fine.
Galaxy being pushed is not.
Galaxy being required is thoroughly bad.

As for people who people not using Galaxy? There are plenty of reasons for that, including not giving numbers to the install base that make GOG and developers hellbent on misuse of it beyond just being a games manager. Galaxy was predicted as and is indeed a harbinger of bad things.

I wish that weren't true. But the whole system, API, etc, was built with DRM in mind. It has ownership checks in there! It's not just an installer, updater, and collection manager. It would be so much better if it were.

Every title should have complete functionality without Galaxy. GOG should test every title in a computing environment that doesn't even have Galaxy (or even any network connection) before accepting and releasing it. That should be the standard, with Galaxy available to you to make your life in the present better.

Your frustration is valid, but misplaced. Most people aren't wanting to take your Galaxy away from you. We just want Galaxy to be positioned and used the way it should be*. Instead, many people, who are head-over-heals-in-love-with-Galaxy (somehow) absolutely DO want to take things away from DRM-free gamers.

*And also not suck. Galaxy 1 is leaps and bounds better than Galaxy 2.

EDIT: I also regularly disagree with/argue with a common poster on these forums who champions for achievements. While I do indeed personally dislike achievements, I'm OK with them existing in games. I am very much against championing of Galaxy-client-based achievements because of the way they are implemented. If GOG had properly done their API and spec, so it could be a cross-platform achievement system without ownership checks and the like (more as mentioned above), it'd not only be better -- because then people could share their achievements across accounts within a family, or across stores with one product (as two examples e.g.)... but also that developers would probably be more likely to implement it because they wouldn't need to "turn it off" for Steam distributions and do multiple compiles and whatnot more; because it'd be an open service. Much like the GOG-based cross-platform multiplayer that Stardew Valley uses (which also properly has LAN/direct IP fallback, which the Galaxy multiplayer API should have had baked in from the get go at the API level, instead of ownership checks and DRMlikes)

I rarely check this forum as to be honest I’m always disappointed by what stupid action GOG/CD Projekt take and this is no different. As a thank you present to your community you decided to retroactively add DRM to Witcher 3, you know the big issue that a lot of the community have a problem with, your continued DRM creep but forget that merry Christmas from GOG/CD Projekt.

This push towards DRM is the reason I have not bought a game since 29/11/2020 and will continue not to while you push this new wishy-washy version of DRM. We don’t think it’s DRM man, so it’s not man…

Also from reading in this thread I see that the “Boycotting DRM and Game Censorship on GOG, 2021-2022” thread from Time4Tea has been locked which I was sad to see as the mod from that post says “be it constructive criticism or any suggestions you may have - is and always will be welcome here” and then in the same post says any similar threads is not allowed. So, the biggest issues in the community are not allowed to be spoken about anymore, great going GOG/CD Projekt, really makes me want to be a customer here.

No, it's bad because it requires activation, and requires further re-authorization to use again. If they're using the website to require authentication every time you want to use items in a new game, then it's no better than any other DRM scheme.

Yesterday, I got info, that my ticket "is currently being processed".

Just because you did lots for GOG games doesn't mean you have some unbiased opinion about everything GOG. I was saying you seem to have blind hate by your humble bundle comparison. Maybe blind hate was the wrong word.

You have the luxury of taking a part-time job and still surviving financially? Nice!
How so? Because I have my opinion and disagree with people? Did I call people name's or talk down to them about the issues?

I thought you know my stance? Saying everything was bad wording. Late night typing man. Haha
Both statements can be true.
Why not actually reply to me? Instead, you add nothing valuable to this thread. Then try mocking me.

Cosmetics is fine but nothing else? (I've not had too much sleep recently either!)

I said if it's free Cosmetics DLC, that's fine. But I'm out once it starts becoming content like story missions or trying to make us pay for the DLC.

What keeping you up? I guess us GOG users sleep badly. lol