mrkgnao: OK. Fair enough. Some people would rather see this store be entirely DRM-free.
But your approach is valid too, as is Orkhepaj's above.

M3troid: Sarcasm, bro.

I despise DRM, but at least (sigh) GWENT is not a false advertising.

GreasyDogMeat: Been 'boycotting' them for 4 years now... last purchase was December of 2016. They've been making bad decisions for years. Anyone remember GOGmixes?

mrkgnao: I don't understand what's so special about Gwent that you're ok with it, but would not want any other DRM-advertised game here.

M3troid: Special? Nothing. To me GWENT is so irrelevant that i don't even care. Another free cash grab game like many others.

The real problem here is selling a DRM Free game that is not really DRM Free.

mrkgnao: I don't understand what's so special about Gwent that you're ok with it, but would not want any other DRM-advertised game here.

XYCat: but regarding a particularity of ye olde most favourite videogame and the differences between Steam and GOG. GOG never really had Devotion in the catalogue, never sold the game, while Steam sold it for a bit and then pulled it from the store without anyone of you giving a fuck, loooong before GOG and long before you even knew the game existed. Some HIGHLY technical users would probably blame government of Switzerland being in control of Steam and GOG together or something lol :D (pls lol CH? seriously)

XYCat: I'm not creating a new thread about how I hate GOG and love artificial outrage as my hobby every day. So no, I'm not one of those smug bad haters.

SomeGuy8504: What I was trying to say is that the big ticket items on your list of reasons to boycott GOG seem like they fall under the "intellectual/ideological" category, meaning that the GOG service, while flawed, is actually still a service you personally would want to use. Your post even sounds as though you would love to use GOG if they at least compromised a little bit and just fixed one of your issues. To me, that sounds as though you have to FORCE yourself to boycott GOG even though you probably still want to use their service.

A NATURAL boycott would have been one where GOG got so awful service-wise that you just stopped using them naturally, not because you made the conscious decision to stop using them. You wouldn't even have gotten to the conclusion that GOG was bad, there would have been barely any thought and no effort involved. You'd just feel bad thinking about buying from GOG as opposed to another service, so you just naturally boycotted GOG without even thinking about it.

SomeGuy8504: That's actually a really good point. You are right, for many users GOG was already something they had to force themselves to use, so any problem at all is enough for them to relapse into their preferred service like Steam. In that case, a 'forced' boycott wouldn't take much force at all and in some ways even be a relief for those users.

wolfsite: Just a heads up to everyone to keep it civil and not to dive into political discussion as to not get the thread locked.

Timboli: I wonder how many of the boycotters will be boycotting all the other stores that don't sell Devotion?

This would be Steam especially, who would have the biggest impact on the developer.

GOG at least made some effort toward selling the game, but due to something unknown and only guessed about, changed their mind at the last minute. They would not have done that lightly I suspect, and not be ignorant of the flack they would cop, especially here in their forum. The fact they tolerate threads such as this one shows how considerate they are really ... try doing the same at Steam or most other places.

Timboli: I wonder how many of the boycotters will be boycotting all the other stores that don't sell Devotion?

This would be Steam especially, who would have the biggest impact on the developer.

Starmaker: It's CD Projekt's own game. If they're going to distribute it, they might as well use the infrastructure they already have instead of forking 30% over to Steam. Gwent is profitable, so them making it is good for everyone who wants to continue using GOG. And it couldn't have been made DRM-free so GOG/CDP didn't deprive principled consumers of content. (For principled consumers, they made Thronebreaker and it didn't sell worth a damn.)

The case of Gwent is different from games which can be DRM-free but are DRMed elsewhere. By pledging to sell DRM-free games, GOG force themselves to fight for no DRM if they want to make sales and put pressure on rightsholders.

The only argument against Gwent here is that it dilutes the strength of the pressure to sell DRM-free GOG can exert on rightsholders. I don't think it holds water.

mrkgnao: I don't think that an angel came down from heaven and forced CDP to produce a game with microtransactions, so using it as a justification for then selling it on GOG is cyclical logic.