Neeranel: Back in my old days, multiplayer was just a matter of opening a server and connecting to an IP. Guess this requires a DRM now?
GoG could (should?) have a clear stance on that matter. People like me like (liked?) GoG for two reasons: because you own the games you buy, and because games were supposedly filtered to only keep Good games (which is subjective, yes, but can still represent a minimal quality requirement). Those were very similar and compatible with the Linux mentality, and I'm pretty sure GoG has a much bigger ratio of Linux users than other platforms.

However, what has it become now? GoG Galaxy 2.0 (also known as "the update nobody wanted") arrived, unfinished but yet mandatory, still incompatible with Linux, and allowing games to implement a DRM *inside* GoG. Two issues here, one obvious, and the other a bit less as it has been forgotten long ago, it seems:
- GoG is supposed to fight against DRM, not to implement them
- GoG is not supposed to accept games with DRM, and should a game be sold on GoG while still including DRMs (whether using Galaxy or not), it should be removed as quickly as possible from the store, allow anyone who bought it to be refunded, and never come back unless every kind of DRM has been removed. Yes, it is extreme, but it should *never* happen if the GoG team filtered the game properly in the first place.

Now why would it matter that much for GoG? Money is money, and if people who got lured into using GoG for DRM-free games forgot about it and keep buying without thinking, it's all good, no?
Well, let's put aside the moral aspects (since those seem to be long forgotten anyway). Out of all decent game shops, the only ones that still provide DRM-free games are GoG, and Itch.io. Out of those two, GoG is the only one that has the strength (let's not forget that CDPR made more money than, for example, Ubisoft: if they want to do something, they can) to attract big games and "force" them to provide fully DRM-free versions. Yes, it means losing money (or rather, losing profit, which is not the same), and making a lot of efforts, and showing a lot of honesty towards buyers. Yes, it is hard.
It is hard, but the main strength of GoG is the trust from people who buy there. As far as I know, most people who buy on GoG will try to mainly buy on GoG, even if prices are a bit lower on steam or whatever. That's because they trust and like this platform. However, all this relatively dishonest talk about DRMs while still implementing them is destroying this trust, and I'm not sure there is much left. People like me are getting really disappointed at GoG, and don't see it as "a good alternative" but a "less bad alternative". I am more and more frequently going on Itch to see if the games I want on GoG are there, and I'd rather buy on Itch than on GoG now. Even though they have a relatively crappy interface which makes everything more complicated.

Now I don't know who is at fault here. Marketing teams deciding that money is worth more than trust? CDPR for not putting enough budget in GoG? Community managers giving off a wrong idea of the current stance of GoG about DRMs (as this post may suggest)? I don't know, and to be honest it's not my job to find out. GoG made a single promise, that it keeps on breaking more and more. Buyers like me are trying to be patient with GoG, to give it a chance to stop doing all this nonsense, but we're getting close to the point of no-return. Trust isn't something you can get back, as a company, especially when you prove that no matter how central your promises are, you can still break them for something as trivial as money for a company as big as CDPR.

It would be time to go back to the core of what made GoG a serious platform: the idea that a game retailer could still have ethics and morals. Because it's your last opportunity to disappoint us, or not.

David9855: The main points are I'd like to see; the GOG down loader for offline installation come back so we can easily download games without Galaxy.

Gersen: And what it your solution, remove a 200+ hours games like X4 just because there is 4 ugly paint job, that you can get equivalent for free on Nexus mods, that requires you to connect online ?

Yeshu: You are doing some hard mental gymnastics here to make your point.

Yeshu: Why not go all in and claim players are not mandatory for a game to function?

randomuser.833: In my opinion the Devs do not need to supply their Changelogs. But if they don't manage to do so, they should Link an external source for update information.

Gersen: Remember that the US is not the full world, in a lot of countries, for example in Europe, Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk are both adult content, there is no difference in classification between them and Evenicle they are all PEGI-18.

TemniTulipan: But you can download games without GOG Galaxy. That is what I do... Just go to your Library -> Select the game you want download and choose the Download Offline Backup Game Installers and download the files there.

GOG.com: 2. Games you bought and downloaded can never be taken from you or altered against your will.

mqstout: Stop being daft and apologizing for bad company behavior. I like I said, there's NO WAY to draw the line in between anywhere but "all is fine to remove behind online gating" and "nothing is".

Viewing the ending is not mandatory. (see: stats that show just few people actually finish games)
Side quests are not mandatory. (see: Oblivion)
Voice overs are not mandatory. (see: how many people turn them off or set it to an unknown language)
Controller inputs are not mandatory. (see: all the games that don't have them)
Non-flat textures are not mandatory. (see: loads of flat-textured, low-poly games, such as Shores Unknown)
Music isn't mandatory. (see: many people turn it off anyway)
Optional party members aren't mandatory. (see: damned near any RPG)
Guns other than the starting weapon are not mandatory. (see: Hitman)
Classes are not mandatory (see: Grim Dawn, you can complete the game entirely without classes; or with only one of 2 allowed per character).
Leveling up isn't mandatory (see: Final Fantasy X's no sphere grid challenge).