DetouR6734: Honestly, i think something both sides should accept is if GOG accepted a policy of games with DRM, that become DRM-Free with an update after say 5 years.
Ancient-Red-Dragon: GOG is never in a stable enough financial position whereby it can guarantee that it will continue to exist 5 years into the future. On the contrary: it's always teetering right on the edge of bankruptcy.
And even if GOG were financially stable, then there is no guarantee that devs would hold up their end of the bargain 5 years after they had first started selling a game on GOG.
If it could get a bunch of recent titles on it would be. But if it was a contractual aggreement i don't see why they couldn't, but then i ain't up to snuff on all the legalities of it.
But to me it's better option than GOG just being dropped altogether.
DetouR6734: Honestly, i think something both sides should accept is if GOG accepted a policy of games with DRM, that become DRM-Free with an update after say 5 years.
tfishell: Sorry but that's a strong "no" from me. I'm more flexible than some people in that I'm not boycotting GOG over No Man's Sky or Absolver, but from what I read about Hitman GOTY, that crossed the line for me and what you're saying would also.
GOG should focus on two things imo: DRM-free single-player games and "old games on new machines" - those are (theoretically) their strengths in the PC games digital distribution market, what they're known for. I think GOG needs to accept that they won't be getting day-1 sales from "AAA" games but they can get the double dippers buying at deep discounts (
far from ideal but realistic I think).
Bring the games here DRM-free after 5 years or whenever. I know that probably means gutted features like multiplayer (which devs don't want to port after such a long time), but that doesn't bother me personally. (A problem
does seem to be GOG having trouble even getting older "AAA" games here, but imo it's unacceptable to have more Hitman GOTY - or worse - situations.)
Oooor ... GOG could ask the devs to port the multiplayer and Steam features to Galaxy when they're developing the game for Steam, years ahead of time, and (I know this is somewhat silly) GOG could do some sort of "Coming eventually" page for the game, and the game could come in 3-5 years with optional Galaxy features complete (unless the multiplayer servers have been taken down by then) but also DRM-free. Probably
highly unrealistic (I assume most "AAA" people don't want to bother with Galaxy porting and GOG in general just because of low sales figures) but a thing.
I ain't fussed for multiplayer half the time, the fact that the recent Tomb Raider didn't have it is a blessing.
Tokyo_Bunny_8990: According to the thread, yes it can be played without the launcher. The only issue is you may need to use a different .exe from the main one.
BanditKeith2: I have my doubts it truly is given how so many on GOG try to peddle ''work arounds'' as making a game truly drm free when the methods to do so is often hidden or require research to do.. Granted this is my jaded side talking as oddly alot of people believe ''Just lacking Denuvo or similar drm means truly drm free even when requiring a launcher or workaround'' Its a odd mindset to have in those cases in my view but its why I doubt any claims of games not being on a known drm-free storefront being truly drm free at this point.. Whatever the gase on the topic of this thread I would love Days Gone and God of war showing up
DetouR6734: Honestly, i think something both sides should accept is if GOG accepted a policy of games with DRM, that become DRM-Free with an update after say 5 years.
It would allow GOG to increase it's catalog without being restricted, and GOG'ers will eventually get what they want eitherway when the 5 years are up, the game gets a DRM-Free update... obviously the Devs/Publisher would have to agree to it, but it would make GOG more palletable.
Obviously this would have to be made quite clear before purchase.
BanditKeith2: This I could work with so long as offline installers get added at the time frame of that set up as while I would hate the drmed factor till then it'd be a great compromise as everyone would get what they'd want
Yeah i'm an advocate of DRM-Free gaming, thus why my library here is larger than that of Steam... but i'm also a realist, and i doubt GOG will be around for another 10 years if it remains a deadweight and with the way their curation is going..
The fact is not many dev/publisher is gonna place their brand spanking new AAA title here DRM-Free when you still get people thinking you can hand the games out like candy because they have some botched idea of what "DRM-free" is..