For crying out loud. Look, I understand not tying yourselves down to DRM and I too miss the old days of just being able to load from a disc. BUT this is really immature... and that's coming from someone who likes immaturity. This is literally just a cheap marketing stunt. Get over yourselves.

I was surprised to see a quote from Gabe Newell on the https://fckdrm.com/ link.

I miss those old days. People were not annoying preach butt holes back then.

Because you need to distinguish between software and service

The software is DRM free, but to access the service you need to have an account.

I fully understand that ranked, match making service needs a secure and traceable system, and that requires account authentication.

I believe Gwent will be getting an offline mode at some later point.

For as long as games have been available to purchase digitally (and movies too) I've been fairly outspoken against them. Back when iTunes first popped up i questioned my friends why they would rather buy their music on a device that could lock them out of it if they did something like forget a password, or change the email associated with their account instead of just buying a CD and being able to rip it for the same music whenever they wanted.

Sadly, it's not really feasible to own everything as physical media these days. I will still only buy my movies on disc, same with my music, and MOST console games but unfortunately Steam holds most of my PC games though ive trended toward GoG when available. Ive never liked the fact that if i buy a game digitally i have no actual ownership of it, that i could lose it for any number of reasons.

I've had arguments with people that absolutely deny that Steam is a subscription service, there argument is "you don't pay a monthly fee" and when shown the SSA they say "it doesn't mean that".

Probably could've picked a better name.

Server based Multiplayer is a service

What good is DRM-free if the batting average for newer games getting consistent updates (and possibly abandoned) abysmal?

I'm not
What people say and what they do can often be entirely conflicting.

However when what you do and say conflict, don't be surprised when people use your words as ammunition against you.
Its a long term thing, need to get more players and pubs backing DRM so things like that stop happening.

Imo this is just a convenient distinction. Just like they are describing on that website, if you ask most people here what their issue with DRM is, it's a lack of control over what you purchased. It's the idea that some day some other than yourself is going to say "Nope! You're not playing today!" and you can't do anything about it.

That's what most people have issues with, and lately GOG is heading in that exact same direction. It's at best a convenient distinction to exclude multiplayer from that. Of course there are huge benefits to having multiplayer accounts linked to ownership so you can control the experience and keep it as good as possible. Of course there are huge benefits to managing the digital access rights to your multiplayer experience.

That doesn't change what it is. It's outside control over a portion of your game. And rather than GOG offering a unique matchmaking service that guarantees some form of multiplayer without third party control (direct connect, LAN) they've jumped in and are offering *and* promoting developers to use a matchmaking service which is exactly that, a third party control over your multiplayer. A service that one day is going to end and take that part of your game with it.

Yes, and this is what gaming has and continues to be headed towards, even here on GOG. I'm honestly getting the impression that DRM-Free is slowly becoming a less meaningful term as time goes on. In 10-20 years it may be largely irrelevant if the bulk of the industry moves towards gaming as a service.

To be fair they are the only online store where all games (excluding Gwent since that is an online multiplayer game) are exclusively DRM free. Other sites that offer DRM free also offer Steam Keys and have games that are only available with Steam DRM.

Other factor could just be that other store fronts have not contacted GOG to be asked to be put on the list.

Well that's not true. Folks who had to wait for the day one DVD patch for The Witcher 3 had to put up with some form of DRM. Not only did we have to wait for that patch, which if I remember right arrived corrupted. We had no choice but to install Galaxy on install. Oh yay, no DRM my ass.

Well that obviously stands for "Fully Control Kooky" DRM.

Great initiative educating people about DRM, Gog. Whenever I can, I always tell people about the benefits of DRM-Free gaming and buy my games from here rather than that other place. >_>

I don't hate steam from the bottom of my guts but man I was scared when I saw that I had "acquired" licenses. I want games, damn, my games. To own, you know?

Got me this ps4 game the other day (Assetto Corsa) phisically. Is that a... license? f**c no!
That's a game, period. I own it. As mr. F. Zappa once said, I quote: ""Communism (or steam licenses) doesn't work because people like to own stuff."