Willingly making a unpopular controversial release right before their big anniversary sale... yep... definitely sounds like a smart business decision...

I'll say that I appreciate a blue posting something, despite obviously continuing to be disgusted at this situation.

While I understand that you are a community manager and that there's not much one can do in your situation I'm sure people here would appreciate more openess between us and GOG and to keep us informed more often.

Keeping radio silence in a time like this will leave a bad taste in people's mouths as it gives the impression that GOG doesn't really care and they're just waiting for things to die down and for people to forget.

If CDP and GOG want to make things right the most basic thing they can do is being honest and not secretive.

Now that I think about it, there are offline installers for some of the cosmetic content in Dying Light, so it makes it even more grating. I agree in so far as that GOG could stand to clarify its terms to eliminate ambiguity and hopefully get such content from devs in true DRM-free form; unfortunately, due to GOG's "pragmatism" (particularly recently), it would seem GOG has even less leverage to even ask.
With all due respect, we can see nothing has changed...the online service game is still prominently featured on the store. I understand you may not be able to simply remove it but users have at least made suggestions about the note on the page being misleading. Could that be changed and clarified into something that is perhaps more accurate? And whose idea was it to accept this game in the first place?

Cheers

Thank you for that sobering history lesson. Yikes. Though given the current outrage, I would say it still makes sense they could communicate more with us all here.
Hey there Dude, I have to say I love your Lebowski inspired quotes near your avatar...what was the one the other day, it was during this Hitman controversy... something about feeling like GOG micturated on your rug. Cracked me up.

With all the communication blunders GOG have been making over several years now, you seriously believe them competent enough to plan and follow through on anything that sneaky?

Yeah, we've noticed. Could you please disclose why the game's store page wasn't change to accurately describe the state the game is in, that is all the features locked behind online DRM? I can understand working out something more about the game (removing the online requirements or pulling it from the store) may require time due to technical/legal reasons, but nothing justifies still having a misleading description of the product you are selling.

I concur, they can definitely be more specific without breaking NDAs. :)

I fail to see what's complicated about releasing two games, the reactions to which are obvious, a week apart from one another. It doesn't require any communication skills.

Honestly, thank you for your post. I hope you guys over there can resolve this the right way, and I hope I can buy here with confidence again.

Indeed. When better to willingly make an unpopular controversial release? One week of noise and things are back to normal.

It's too bad that no major studios were willing to take the chance, but you don't need major studios to have a good movie selection!

In fact, even in its renamed form "movies for gamers" that section could work just fine, if anyone cared to actively work for it. There are some very good indie movies about games, gaming culture, and history of video games, and none of them are on GOG. They are not from major studios, and I don't think there are any issues with worldwide rights either, at least not with most of them.

I think they could have made a much better attempt with the movie section, but they did practically speaking nothing with it. But if the goal was to have AAA Hollywood movies or nothing, that was doomed to fail and ended up being mostly nothing at all.

They made legacy graphics wrappers before, so maybe this time they will make legacy online servers wrappers too ;)
Imo they still can be heroes in gaming world and they still can make some unique big things, which nobody did before. I know that it may take some time of developing, law talks etc. So, I'm just trying to wait with as many peace and hope as I can :)

GoG, please tell me why I should keep using your store when you renege on your core principles of delivering DRM free products?

A game with always online DRM does not belong on a storefront that purports to sell only DRM free content.

On every game page it's written:

"Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play."

If this is no longer true, I don't see why I shouldn't just buy games from Steam instead, seeing how they too have DRM by developer/publisher discretion.