I think one issue here is that what the management believes to be good for CDPR games (DRMed/online stuff to make more money) is at odds with the old "DRM free" philosophy of GOG. Or rephrasing: I dont think they are doing the "DRM creep" inside GOG because they believe it to be good for GOG but rather because they want to use GOG (esp Galaxy) to support their future online/DRM components of CDPR games.
With every step towards more obvious endorsement of DRM(*) they are testing the waters (for acceptance by customers) and eroding resistance (against acceptance by customers).

(*) see https://www.gog.com/forum/general/piggybacking_off_cyberpunk_2077 for the most recent big step

If you people are really serious about the future of CDPR and DRM-free games, then you should start buying their shares on the stockmarket. You can use the very same money you save from not buying their games right now.

Are you serious? And give money to, bail out, the current stockholders? The ones who enforced their bad decisions and made GOG look like a fool, before the eyes of those who were here and spent money on it, before the shareholders happened? Dear sir, are you a stockholder perchance? Or, do you know the current price; are they still on a drop, after the Cybertrash flop fiasco? You give money to somebody in order to gain something good, not toxic garbage, dead weight, to burn your money on. GOG isn't good old games even, anymore! What the hell would we be spending our money on, assuming we felt like entering the stockmarket? Making the leeches, the stockmarket vultures richer, or rather, become their damage control insurance, their 2nd hand resell? No thank you, we are not that dumb. Besides nobody guarantees us that we can have the majority (if holders hold on to some percentage), or even if we do end up having it, that the now enstrangered and insensitive employees who don't give a crop about old policies and original fanbase, will suddenly agree to our point of view, suggestions, pleas for rerolling back in time & reshifting priorities.

No, I'm not shareholder myself yet but I'm thinking about it. Besides CyberPunk 2077 wasnt a flop. It's doing quite well actually.

Bless you! Your humor is to my liking! It is a very long time since i last had some hearty laugh, inside here. I wonder how Fuk the Vaxxers or TinyE is doing. But in a serious side note, Steam doesn't resort to paying people, its employees even worse, to upload videos with hollow promises and lies that they will take back and go against them even, such as the good old policies and core values of old GOG. Respectable businesses avoid such... "Tactics".

I don't think GOG cares since they aren't selling the game.

https://shop.redcandlegames.com/games/devotion

I bought the entire package with soundtracks. They have some discount even, for any package (more than one game, or a set of game + soundtrack)! They are zip files, do not need installation and play as is. Beware though, Devotion needs windows 10! The Television has a known bug that it will never start playing or become interractable, after the birthday cake scene, in older systems than Windows 10. Detention runs normally and has 2 endings, even!

OR? Isn't Back-sack'n'crack AND Tiny-E the same person?

I'm bit confused about the Steam talk. Are you trying to say something like valve doesn't pay their employees or something?

https://media.tenor.com/images/78de19e3bf59f96527e7218f48997865/raw

According to https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announcements/current-report-no-36-2021/ : In addition to that only votes from present (or represented) free float are even considered. And the management/board/related holds about 33%. In practice this may make it approximately impossible for free float to effect changes in such a manner.
(I may be missing something else though which may give more power to shareholders.)

Not a bad idea actually.

Most of the shares are free float: https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/shareholders/

The overall amount seems kind of low, as far as shares for at least moderately successful companies go anyways (would not be surprising if it was just GOG, but they are also making AAA titles... I guess the margins for AAA games are not what I though it was).

that's why we have an entire new generation of gamers who see nothing wrong with f2p mechanics since they were raised on it with mobile phone games.

I really wonder if GOG made a smart business decision to focus on Chinese market. Pretty clear China doesn't want games to distracting their drone workers.

Online games will be limited to 3 hours per week (1 hour a day on Friday, 1 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday) for people under 18. No playing on other days at all. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58384457

Granted not all GOG games are online games, but pretty clear message from the Communist party.

Maybe they would want to limit offline games too, but much harder to limit those I suppose. But wouldn't surprise if they would force GOG Client and such to be mandatory and have same kind of limitations soon for all games.


Edit: And my boycott of GOG has gone well, no money spent on GOG and haven't even bothered visiting the store. I only visit the forums every now and then.

I guess making all those censored cards for Gwent specially for the Chinese market was a waste of time after all.

Hahaa, those are hilarious edits. Women given more clothes or taken out of picture entirely. Weapons crudely removed. Especially loved the Alan Rickman as Sheriff of Nottingham inspired picture of someone spooning someone to death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfuuKiTcYQ