Yup, that is exactly what GOG should do. And yes, it is that simple.

People can decide for themselves what games they do or don't want to buy. They don't need GOG curators taking that decision-making power away from them.

Uh huh. lol

They could win both by adding Wizardry. Diablo fans aren't ran off because a Wizardry game got added. Take that concept and apply it to every game that's been denied and it becomes a larger problem that drives potential customers away.

You'd be better off with steam alone because Epic can't be trusted with them being owned partially by the Chinese government.

Also, your notion of them gaining a lot of Blizzard fans is bullshit when you take into account that Steam still has the more massive userbase and with most hardcore fans going for the online aspect of those games you'd go with the one with most players online. GOG is more for titles you play offline hence why DRM free matters most to GOG users.

And that is what matters in the end for me. DRM Free.

The day Steam sells games DRM Free AND without the need of a client is the day GOG dies.

YOu taking the notion of Free by DRM free but there is also a freedom of choice on what you wanna play and Steam does allow more games on their platform and has a bigger choice than GOG so it's not like GOG has an upper hand by denying games from their storefront. I want DRM free mostly for my older games and those with the single player only and those with multiplayer are better played on different stores. Some Steam games don't have DRM in them so you could be picky and go for those games on Steam. In the end, it depends on the studio to do DRM free not GOG.

Some steam games are DRM free but not all, they leave it to the Devs. If it were up to steam they'd all just be DRM free.
If steam decided to release them with installer GOG be history by now so all they can go on is the good grace of its fanbase which it seems to care little about.

Actually, the first post in this topic *was* low rated at one point; I uprated ththe post as soon as I saw that.

So you'd be OK with this releasing here without achievements or multiplayer functionality?

"Free choice" doesn't exist. Not here. Not anywhere.

Not saying it couldn't, but at present, it does not.

You can see that the community here is very divided.

Its a like a Forum Civil War.

achievements in general mean nothing and were never included in the old days even if this version has it would nothing more than an online showboating grind fest, Multiplayer is only useful if it is future proof made. For instance, if you can host it yourself instead of relying on an intermediator as most Paradox games do

A lot of peeps don't see it that way, tho.

Where do you get that "a lot of devs" from? A lot don't mind and many don't even know what DRM is.

GOG can't really stop curating and open the floodgates because they have to package each game manually after checking it which takes man-hours. That is repeated when patches are released. Of course, they could get rid of that if they said bye-bye to the offline installers and the DRM-free experience but most people here certainly don't want that, right? Nevertheless, their curation is garbage and they accept a lot of bad stuff while selling broken and/or not updated games (even directly as the publisher) while denying obviously good games. So of course they will piss people off (me included). Add that to all the other gripes I have with this website/store and I'm almost done with it.