lostwolfe: if gog cannot be trusted to do the work of releasing drm free games anymore, then i think it becomes imperative that we, as users, look out for each other and actually vouch for the games.
Why can't GOG be trusted, though? Because they made a couple of big mistakes throughout their run as a company? I see your forum tag is "Sierra gamer", did you boycott Sierra when they had Daryl Gates working on their Police Quest/SWAT games? Sierra made A LOT of questionable decisions while they were pushing out games, but they're still viewed as a "good" company, overall. "Good old" Origin, who people blindly love, all the while accusing EA of being evil, wasn't all that good, but I guess people's memory is selective as hell. Origin basically sold voice packs and "expansions" that amounted to a level or two for the price of an entire game. But all these companies can make mistakes, they're given the benefit of the doubt -- as they should, mind you. GOG can't, because... "principles" apparently only apply to GOG, no one else.
GOG got greedy, I'll give you that, and I do think Hitman GOTY should be removed from the store ASAP (assuming GOG still has any leverage with IO, seeing they probably had to sign countless NDAs and contracts and all manner of legal BS), but game release threads of indie/smaller devs are not the place to "bother" GOG with that. You have the Hitman thread for that, or the countless fear mongering threads you overzealous slippery slope fallacy conspiratorial people have already created.
You're clearly not looking out for each other, you're just posing this same loaded question in every single thread, trying to twist it and claim you're just "fighting for your rights", all the while you already managed to scare at least one customer away from an awesome game just because they were not a native English speaker and got confused by your "crusade". We know what you're trying to do, so, please, at least be honest about it and stop trying to spin it around. You're mad at GOG because of one game, and that's fine, but stop flooding every single smaller dev thread just to ask these obvious begging the question fallacy questions. At least you're trying to be nice about it, unlike some other dudes in here that will outright start offending both devs and forumites, but what you're doing is still pretty crappy. You don't go around stabbing people and and apologizing afterwards thinking that makes it alright just because you feel you're "fighting for your rights". Most of these devs poured years and years of their lives into their projects, and you just crap all over that because of a mistake they didn't commit. Let them have their games on as many stores as they can, be happy that GOG is supporting indie and small developers, and lets them sell their games on their store, DRM-Free. And, yes, all of these games you've been shamelessly trolling (whether you feel like it's trolling or not, it's still what you end up doing) are DRM-Free on GOG, I hope this answers your "oh-so-legitimate" concerns.
Have a nice day, hopefully you find something better to do with your time then to try and sabotage indie dev games.
