Hello,
before further reading (& thank you if you do so) i would like to tell you, that i am proceeding with this topic in Scythe subforums as i am not convinced that it belongs to this very thread. So i give you an summary below where i am standing with this right now and after this (last) entry of mine i will go ahead in scythe subforum.
Gog support answered very fast yesterday:
"for all gameplay and in-game related events, gog can only recommend you to reach the game's official support, since only they can approach such questions. You can reach them at:
https://asmodee.helpshift.com/a/scythe-digital-edition/?p=all"
As i am not pleased as a customer to do gogs job (& i kindly told them so) but being well aware, that this is common sense for goglodytes & i partially agree that they can not do much about it...i opened a ticket at asmodee today.
On steam community hub so far (not that surprising...) no answer - but i will trigger them 1-2 times by bumping that discussion. :-)
I played today a couple of hours offline & also online for determine which version might cause these blend-ins.
Each testing scenario i started a new game or restarted the whole game client, to assure that i have a fresh session.
v1.7.06 is defintely blend in these messages. I could not reproduce this while playing without galaxy and also being offline by de-activating my online connection. Once you are online these messages occure for sure. Not that much in quantity, but nonetheless on various stages of gameplay. So once you press the "x" button won´t make them disappear for good & forever...they still will appear.
v1.7.04 & v1.6.85: i was not able to reproduce this behaviour. Maybe this "feature" is not integrated or it may have not been occuring for my sessions.
As you do not know me as a person i will give you that much of an pov: normally i am calm & collected towards this "kind" of customer-hostile in-game advertising for data collecting etc.. I also understand that this account seems to be necessary to play online. But the implentation is just awful - this could have been done way better.
I sort of "accept" ads eq. in Deponia, cause they are "only" shown as small windows in the menu section of the game. BUT: i am a person, who doesn't compromise on the immersion of a game. & if during a game someone asks me - by blending in a fcking pop screen - to register (in an offline game!) i get mildly sour, because they partially ruin my gaming experience. That´s why i am raising my voice. If i want blend-ins during a game, i play on my tablet or phone some free app games. If i pay for an game that supports offline -> stay out of my screen!
Also i am not satisfied as a customer (i told Gog support this also kindly) that their quality management seemed not to have tested this version - if they had, they may recognized this and could have get in contact to asmodee; just because they may could anticipate that some customer is not too pleased with this. I don´t say this in any offense towards gog - it´s just my pov.
If someone is offended by my opinions or has other arguments on that, i´ll accept this kindly without any complains. I agree that people are different, therefore feel free to discuss/critizise this. No problem for me.
Nonetheless, i will stay to my opinions as given - & this is how i will proceed for talking to asmodee support - regardless of whether they ultimately remove this function or not (i doubt that they will).
So i stop this topic here for good (as i agree that this no drm). I will keep posting on Scythe subforum.
Thank you for your attention.