It could be ones that haven't been released to manufacturing yet, or ones that may be known about in some circles but not publicized, or ones where a release date has never been officially announced.

Just a thought. If no one here can come up with a few strong candidates after doing a little research, then what does that mean? GOG members are poor researchers? I haven't researched it, but I can't think of anything.

It actually reminds me of this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ODMDtG6-I

You shouldn't be sad about that. Not imo anyway, but apparently I'm in the minority around her judging by the frequency I see comments referring to this, though.

I for one couldn't care less what my rep# is or the rep# of anyone else in this forum. I'll be my own judge of one's posts and what I consider to be one's character.

The thing is, they migth include regional restriction
and since regional restriction is some kind of DRM then the road isnt long to regional lockout
and since they have both those why not just include a online client that checks if you have bougth it in the correct region
and suddenly the circle is complete and we migth as well abolish no-drm

Slippery slope fallacy.

Thank you GOG.com for your honesty and candor on this topic, I hope you are similarly direct and open in the future when you betray your other core principles.

p.s. in the age of digital distribution, regional pricing is one of the few solid enticements/justifications for piracy.

Seems like tha to me too. "It won't change anything here for me, so go ahead".

Regional pricing is pretty bad for us in the UK, and we don't even get the worst of it, that goes to the EU and Aus (you would know eh?).

Just take a look at the most recent games released on Steam right now: http://www.steamprices.com/uk/new

EVERY game on that front page is at LEAST 10% cheaper in the US than the UK, and in a lot of cases it's even more in the EU. Now you might look at that front page and think they are mostly all relitivley cheap to begin with (which is true enough) but the trend continues, page after page after page.

One of the absolute pushing factors for me to use GoG in the past (when possible) WAS that I would be getting a fair deal, always paying the same as eveyone else. The DRM free thing is also a big factor, no doubt, but if new "big" games were, say, £5-£10 cheaper to buy WITH the DRM I might have been swayed.

I'm just so dissapointed.

The slippery slope argument is not necessarily a fallacy.

I do agree that GOG abandoning DRM-Free would be incredibly stupid however.

Yes. "I don't like the price, so it's okay to steal it."

That works well.



Not necessarily, of course. In this case, it crosses the line.

I stand with you. If I have to choose between filling in some key in order to use the game I downloaded, I'd be totally fine with it actually. I cared way more about flat pricing.

Maybe
But since it have happened on other online stores
except the client i woudnt be suprised if it had happened here too.
Il be suprised if it doesnt happen in fact.

lol

I knew that you wasn't sincere when I first read "thank you" at the start of your sentence. I guess it's because it's so predictable right now given the current environment. :D

I've already said a little here but I wanted to write a little more from the heart.

I was initially drawn to GOG by their commitment to re-releasing games forgotten by time, the "underdog" titles, and adding extra value by making sure these games ran on new machines.

I was taken quite aback initially when GOG abandoned "Good Old Games", and I still don't really care about new games very much (unless they're high up on the wishlist, like STALKER), but I still found reasons to support GOG.

I don't even mean actually buying games because, to be honest, I only have about ~30 GOG games, and a good chunk were freebies. I haven't sat down and played any sort of serious game (maybe a Flash game or two) in a month+. I haven't touched Dungeon Keeper, Fallout Tactics, Heretic Kingdoms, System Shock 2, Realms of Arkania, Empire Earth, Broken Sword, and naturally some of the general freebies. I'm certainly grateful for GOG giving away these games, but I just haven't been interested enough to actually play them.

Nevertheless, I still found reasons to support GOG. I don't mean to be a braggart, but for the past few months I've posted to r/games any new "old" games or meaningful games that were released on GOG, and I'm sure doing so brought in a few extra sales. I took the opportunity to mention GOG on Reddit whenever possible, and when relevant on Facebook. For a few months, when I had free time, I even helped "organize" people to assist in trying to find old game rights, I and several others like SCPM, IAmSinister, etc. essentially doing GOG's work w/o pay.

Why? Because I was passionate about what GOG stood for, and I viewed GOG as an "underdog" who deserved attention when they were helping other "underdogs" (mostly old unknown games, but you can add good new indie games in there too somewhat).

Now...

I'm not sure entirely sure what to think, plainly. I don't think I can keep trusting, mentioning. and defending GOG. Perhaps, in the end ("wait and see") it really won't end up being a big deal, but I'm not going to "mindlessly" defend GOG especially when so many others have extremely serious concerns.

This may seem nuts to some people that don't care about this, but perhaps the best thing GOG could do now is say, "Well, we're under contractual obligation with these three titles, but you guys showed us we f**ked up really badly. We won't do this again for any other titles, and we're putting 'one world pricing' back in. We will work to regain your trust and your business."

I think it would be if this were late 2011 and people expressing concerns about "Good Old Games" just becoming GOG, but I think the slippery slope kind of fits here given what we've seen over the past 2-ish years. Thing is, when GOG started introducing new games, concerns like these were brought up quite a bit; people were afraid losing the "Good Old Games" "principle" (it wasn't actually ever a GOG principle, though, I don't think) could lead to other principles being dropped, and ... that seems to have actually happened now.

While I'm sure GOG won't be introducing DRM anytime soon - that would be utter business suicide since they've been completely rebranding themselves around this - it's worrying that they would just drop a principle and try to hide it in an announcement like this.

Slippery slope is actually a full fledged logical argument, you're absolutely right. But the way people keep using it here is, in fact, its fallacious form.

Two examples for you to peruse at your leisure:

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/slippery-slope/

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope