Could you please link or tell me what new changes realted to this the game had? Because tomorrow I was going to buy the game, and from what I could tell, the only online only requirements would be quicksilver and the living ship questline, both of them should be doable through a fix a user shared here:

https://www.gog.com/forum/no_mans_sky/no_quicksilver_items_for_offline_players/page1

That is entirely beside the point. Either there is single player content gated behind DRM or there isn't. What that content may be is not the point. What is "required" to enjoy the game is subjective, and precedence of allowing that as an excuse, of allowing anything as an excuse really, for DRM on a store the sole point of which is DRM-free is no acceptable.

It is up to GOG to uphold their promise of DRM-free games and enforce their policy on devs and publishers they work with.

I agree, and I agree that this case seems clearly something GOG should fix.

There is another one that has been bothering me that is less clear: the Zachtronics games that show what other people came up with only if you are online. This makes it really annoying to optimize if you are offline since it can be quite hard to tell if a better solution is possible. Another game, polybridge (from Humble, not available here), has the same type of graphs after each level but provides them even offline. Obviously it won't be current if someone has figured out a better way since the last update, but it seems like something that could easily be added with updates or a separate download to get the current values.

Another less clear case is daily challenges. Technically, it should be easy to have a download option from outside the game to add the current daily challenge, but I haven't actually seen that. I'm less concerned about this one since they seem to usually be more gimmicky than interesting but sometimes variety is nice and possibly some game uses it to good effect. Ideally there would be a pack of up to date content for download and an ability to choose from past daily challenges.

IMO, offline play is the #1 practical advantage of DRM-free games so I encourage GOG to be strict about this stuff even in these less clear cases.

I don't have a link or anything like that. I did read somewhere that you need quicksilver for something else now since the update. And before the update it was simply to buy some cosmetics, which I didn't need.

But yeah, there's a fix for quicksilver and there's also a way to farm it somehow(check the youtube for that).

I'm gonna have to play it and see for myself, but I don't have the time atm, sadly.

As for the game, buy it. Don't listen to anyone. This game is absolutely amazing! Aside from quicksilver and everything about it, there's more to do in this game than in any game we have today for the price.

All the best!
I was talking about the in-game fix. It's not for GOG to fix, but the devs.

And yeah, I agree, it is up to GOG to uphold their promise of DRM-free games and enforce their policy on devs and publishers they work with.

Let's wait and see what GOG will do....

I'm buying it in fact, I'm just a bit pissed about this whole thing, I also fear that they could disable the possibility of enabling online features offline too through any update, should they be so adamant in not allowing us to do that. :/

I don't believe this devs have any kind of bad intentions. Sort of creating some kind of hidden online-DRM like so many tend to believe it to be so.

Besides, why would you need a DRM, 4 years after the game is released. Usually DRM is useful during the first year, not so much after.

Also, this devs could have released all those updates in form of DLC for 10$ each, like so many devs do today, but they didn't.

I've been playing this game since it was released, and with time, I got nothing but love for the game and the devs.

I've bought it, but rather than drm, we are talking about cutting content behind online functionality, which albeit it can be considered a form of drm, it's still a meh thing.

While I can understand barring MP content due to its nature online, there is absolutely no reason to negate SP content offline.

If we were talking about some daily rutines which added nothing new to the table aside from some currency you could get offline too, I wouldn't mind it.

But what we have here is:

- Complete living ship quest line being locked behind online;

- Quincy shop being again locked behind online (its inventory is limited when you interact with it offline);

- Quicksilver can be farmed only online (the offline number is very limited so let's take it out of the formula).

So yeah, while I agree that the game is great and all, I'd argue that the decision was a good one, especially considering GOG policy.

I'm not saying to remove the game, but at least to tell hello games that they should fix this asap.

Yeah, I also hope that they will fix it. We'll see I guess...