I've thought long and hard about it (does 1 second count?) and I've decided what my answer will have to be.

No.
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[Sorry lol, I couldn't help it. Sometimes threads like these just tickle my funny bone. No offense intended]
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Remember when games were educational? :P An elegant attitude, for a more civilized age.

Many thanks for your advice. The games I bought from GOG are the kind I might enjoy. I can relate to Star Wars, and have a fair idea of the genres I may like.

It's disappointing. It seems the site these days is populated by people who are happy to turn a blind eye and sweep GOG's misdeeds under the carpet, rather than try to hold them accountable.

Yes, it seems they have made a corporate calculation that they will make more money as a weak Steam clone than as a principled DRM-free store. I guess we'll see in time if their calculations are accurate ...

Why do you hate Gwent? It's a fun card game and generous too.

I am a bit confused when people think needing an internet collection is equals to having drm. I mean, if you don't have one, how did you get the games in the first place?

Well is there any other way to tell gog they are on a wrong path and should turn back?

Nopeity nope, with an extra helping of not a chance.

I downloaded them in the public library.

That isn't the fault of GOG, this has been discussed in other threads and the primary issue is that the Linux ports were done(outsourced to) by companies who prefer DRM (Feral with there Linux ports of Square/Enix games is an example)

I have debated with myself whether to do the same and your well-written post has helped me to make the move. Thank you.

I don't plan to buy games from GOG anymore until I feel they have --- as you've said --- changed trajectory. I don't really expect them to do so, though. I don't think it will be easy for me, but I do plan to give it my best. I may allow myself to buy DLCs for games I already own (because I have always maintained that DLCs are artificially-separated parts of the original game) and perhaps also to participate in giveaways.

As many already know, I have also taken MaGog down, to make it easier for myself not to buy games.

The last game I bought was on 31 December 2020.

To give some perspective, according to my records, I have spent more than $7,000 on GOG over the past 12 years, buying games for myself and gifts for others, during which time I have not bought a single video game, physical or digital, anywhere else.

Since at the moment I don't see any reasonable alternative to GOG, I don't plan to buy video games at all. My backlog is large enough to last me several lifetimes, not to mention replays.

I also don't plan to leave the GOG forum.

May I suggest that you add a list of "People who have joined me:" to your OP, and add me to the list.

mrkgnao will you buy games elsewhere now or just stop buying games for now ?
Ill just limit buy purchase down to cooperative/multiplayer games.

Since at the moment I don't see any reasonable alternative to GOG, I don't plan to buy video games at all. My backlog is large enough to last me several lifetimes, not to mention replays.

I believe the main reason that they act the way they do, is because they are essentially a near-monopoly in the pseudo-DRM-free market.

Honestly, I'm not at all hung up about games which have multiplayer components needed to activate some content for single player. While this wasn't a thing in the "good old" days, more and more developers have been doing this for the past 10 years as a yardstick for engagement statistics, and driving people into their ecosystem. Mass Effect 3, a few of the middle boat-sailing Assassin's Creeds, and many others, have all had single-player campaign content locked behind online access.

So, when a game comes to GOG, the team have three choices.
1) Disable that content altogether (actually, they likely often don't have a choice about that, the game simply won't come without it),
2) Negotiate/acquire offline access for that content (eg, as done with Deus Ex Mankind Divided bonus content),
3) Leave the content in, with the caveat that while the game is playable without it, that component necessarily requires online access.

Given the games are primarily DRM-free, and can still be played in their entirety in almost all instances, it's hard to find the latter overly objectionable. Absolver is an interesting case because the game is designed around continuing past a certain point requiring online play. In short; this is an online game and should cleared be advertised as such. Online multiplayer with any sort of security is always going to be a "drm in effect", whether we want it to be or not. It's generally accepted that on-line play in many cases necessitates access control, and this is going to be a form of DRM. Absolver needs to have a prominent disclaimer that gameplay past a certain point requires on-line PVP grind. Really, GOG should have thought harder about ever including this game in their catalog, but that alone is not boycott-worthy.

However, in all other cases, we're pretty much just talking inconsequential cosmetic bonus content. Games with online access for bonus content are only becoming more common, and if the choice for GOG is to either not have the games, or to keep the online requirement for the bonus content, I'd rather the latter. For example, I'd rather have Assassin's Creed Black Flag DRM-free and with the option to go online to use the "fleet" mechanic (which I'd never use), than to not have the game at all.

Unless a large swathe of game content requires online access (such as Absolver, not prominently positioned as an on-line game; they need to fix that or remove it) I'm not going to get too upset. The point where I'd get upset is if a single-player offline game ever needs online access or Galaxy to just play it.

They could do a fourth thing, which in my book would earn them quite a few brownie points, and that is clearly indicate which games are fully DRM-free (i.e. 100% content available without online access or galaxy) and which are not, just like they identify which games have Linux support or achievements or controller support or Hungarian audio or DLCs.