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Posted May 28, 2016
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deleted_user:
Nothing about that statement is untrue, at all... you don't have to activate the game and your don't have to be online to play.
You are omitting half of the promise and what customers understand when they are reading the promise is that this applies to the whole game. I wonder what your definition of a lie is.
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deleted_user:
Online MP is simply that online...
I do not understand what you are trying to say.
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deleted_user:
so that statement would not cover online MP anyway regardless of Galaxy.

But this is GOG where a select few decry everything they dislike DRM regardless if it actually is...
First of all, I don't understand your reasoning.
Secondly, it is not only online MP but account-based online MP. So, it most likely actually is DRM.
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Pheace: I think the real question here is whether there is any actual technical limitation that required games that use Galaxy Multiplayer matchmaking to only work on accounts that have the game activated.

If there isn't, then the purpose is account based DRM. And whether that only applies to multiplayer and not single player really wouldn't take away from the fact that it's a form of DRM at that point.
Well, I don't completely agree that this is the only case in which having to log in would be DRM, but in the (possibly hypothetical) case that you are describing, it definitely is.
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Gersen: GoG mentioned multiple times in the pasts that their "DRM-free" promise only extended as far as the single player portion of the games and that the multiplayer parts was in the hand of the devs.
I am aware of that. Nevertheless, they are effectively lying to the new customers who take their word for it and don't browse the forum's fist to find one of those statements.
Post edited May 28, 2016 by 0Grapher
Posted May 28, 2016
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ZFR: Any idea (or a guess) why?
There is a theory on Relic's forum, that the LAN mode had to be disabled because it was based on Won's/Gamespy's netcode, which Gearbox didn't have the rights to use. As a result (and even though LAN mode is perfectly playable on the retail versions), they disabled it to avoid getting in legal trouble, rather than spend money/time to reenable a feature that they probably didn't think there was enough demand.
No idea whether this theory holds any water, though.
Post edited May 28, 2016 by Grargar
Posted May 28, 2016
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mechmouse: But I'm sure you're wrong.
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Grargar: I don't think so.
Just tested it. Seems your right, which I'm really pissed of with.
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