Lifthrasil: [Multiplayer]
A list of multiplayer games with DRM will get very, very long. After all GOG likes to pretend that DRM is 'necessary for multiplayer!'
Perhaps it would be easier to compile a list of Mutliplayergames without DRM? Let me know what you think. I can compile a list of the multiplayer DRM offenders here too. In any case, I'll start with the worst offender. For the rest, I'll require your input since I don't play multiplayer games myself.
Yeah, pure industry bs here.
I think there is less pushback about this for two reasons:
- Only a subset of the drm-free crowd cares about multiplayer
- Setting up a LAN game requires a little bit of networking knowledge (you need to figure out your IP and the IP of the other computer on the network) and setting up a network game over the internet with a self-hosted server (so far, I've only seen two games supporting that: Factorio and Terraria) even moreso.
I get that this is the trend that the industry is adopting, but I'm personally annoyed/worried about two things:
- That they will rip out pre-existing LAN support in older games, replace it with Galaxy and call that an improvement
- That when a game is listed as multiplayer/coop, they don't even bother clarifying what the offline support is
Lifthrasil: Worst offender:
GWENT - microtransactions are the sole reason for this game to exist. So of course it needs DRM, because otherwise the purchases couldn't be related to an account. A micro-transaction driven game on GOG was quite a shock at the time. By now almost everyone has gotten used to it and the game set a precedent.
You know, initially, I was of the opinion that this was not a biggy (because the game was free and all), but in retrospect, I think you might be right that distributing the game here contributed to the erosion of the dm-free culture that the site initially helped establish.