DarrkPhoenix: I guess I haven't felt the need to post anything yet since my opinion of GOG has already dropped a fair amount, at least to the point where this news to me was more along the lines of "Yet another fuckup from GOG." It's certainly unfortunate it's gotten to that point, but I can't bring myself to be all that disappointed since this honestly doesn't fall much below my current expectations of GOG.
SirPrimalform: While I must admit, my opinion of GOG has plummeted in the last year or so, I still expected better than this given that they threw away the flat pricing in order to place more focus on the DRM-free principle ("if we accept regional pricing then we can get bigger games DRM-free!"). Besides, the DRM in this game has been here the entire time this game was being sold. It just didn't become obvious that the developer held the power to deactivate your game until the developer deactivated everyone's game. It's been here for years... and while I appreciate that your expectations of GOG are very low, the more people lurk on this thread, the less GOG will feel like they need to deal with this. We've got to make some noise!
They already fixed the issue and are in communication with the dev to make sure it doesn't happen again. Plus, they're offering refunds. Screwups happen, and this is a pretty comprehensive fix for something that GOG didn't do. It doesn't really lower my opinion of GOG - a small business with overworked, mediocre devs is going to have problems like this, the important thing is fixing it asap and preventing the same mistake going forward. Looks like that happened, so I'm good.
mchack: Thanks for making me aware of this!!!
Just requested a refund! This is unacceptable. Hope the developer notices the refunds.
Dude. Did you not see that the problem is fixed? And that GOG is working with the dev to get a GOG-only build going forward?
There's no reason to request a refund at this point. Before it was fixed, sure. Now, not so much.