You know what...I will take your word for it that GOG is actually looking into it.
That it's all a big f up and nothing sinister is going on. (regarding DRM).

In the end, if GOG is stupid enough to actually plan on changing to pro DRM, you will be shooting your foot as you would take away the major reason we buy games here and not elsewhere. Surely you guys must know this.


I hope there are good news sooner than later. Take care.

Phrasing, please! After all, the Hitman GOTY release with all this online bull was the "Good News" lol.

Yep, it’s just a “mistake”. One in a long line of “mistakes” dating back to the release of galaxy and the company drastically changing direction.

I didn't want to insult you, and my words about "mob" were not about you. Just used your words as a begining or title for my question. Maybe i did it wrong, sorry. But i am really curious about results of DRM-free movement. DRM-free is (or maybe was) important for me too and i don't see anything strange in this. But it is interesting to look at situation from other's point of view. GOG, developers. This thread is about accusation of GOG. There are a lot of prosecutors and i decided to ... ask question. (maybe i am wrong but this is my second motive).

About "fear" and "mob". Of course it is not about my safety. But there are a lot of people here who atack GOG together. With agression, accusations, demands, proposing boycott but with minimum information from gog. I like DRM-free and there is real problem with the state of this game but it is not about life-death or good-evil and we dont know what they are planning to do. Also this mass-downvoting is strange. Maybe this is realy namecalling - ok, i stop talking about it.

My question was about results of DRM-free experiment. Statistic, possibility.

+1

I think it's worth keeping a lot of pressure on GOG to fix this, even lessening the amount one would normally spend here and just buying priority DRM-free releases, but not everyone has to do a full boycott.

If for some weird reason I meant "good news" I would have said "good news". Since I meant actual good news, I said good news. :)

for sure. i totally agree!

i mean, i still buy stuff here with my money and i like supporting drm-free games, but you know... i'm going to sound like a traitorous dog when i say this, but my wife recently got me $200 worth of steam gift cards for our anniversary (she honestly had no clue i swear!!) so instead of returning them i used them to buy the whole yakuza series, metal gear 5, ni no kuni games, the outer wilds, and a few more odds and ends. and i gotta say, i thought i would hate it, but really it's pretty sweet. the whole bit feels much 'tighter' than managing drm-free installers, knowing what has been updated & what's a year behind, etc.

i feel like i've had a taste of the dark side and it's causing schism in my head.

anyway, i digress...

If IOI intends to sort the game out then that's great, but it should be temporarily removed until it meets the standards of the store. If they don't intend to fix it then it should be permanently removed. By all means look into a solution, but the game shouldn't be on sale until that solution arrives.

Yes, please do update us, I would very much like to get back into Hitman.

It couldn't be more obvious that both this release, and Blood Omen, were deliberately timed.

The sheep all praising GOG and buying Blood Omen right now are really bringing me down. Completely oblivious or apathetic about the fact they're doing exactly what GOG wants and are helping them continue down the path to their own destruction.

This. It's f*cking depressing.

This mess would be over and done with very, very quickly if GOG were upfront about wanting to go in a different direction. Instead, it continues to be coy and sleaze it's way through by putting lipstick on the pig, in this case slapping "DRM-FREE" on Hitman GOTY. That's my main grope with CDP/GOG, and many other corporations. They have very little integrity, because their words are almost always in conflict with their actions.

None of us can say for sure what's happening behind the scenes, but if it wasn't profitable than GOG wouldn't exists. There are also other DRM free places such as dot emu and the humble store. There's also band camp for DRM free music. I think it's fair to say there is a market for this stuff. This is also what GOG is famous for. GOG isn't Steam and shouldn't try to be like them. They should try to be as different as possible.
They might be waiting on a resonance from IO. Also it's worth noting that they may have not been aware of the unshockables before uploading the game.

If they actually gave a shit and were not aware, the moment it was brought to their attention they should have pulled the game right then and there and posted a forum thread to explain why. I have zero doubt they were fully aware of what they were doing, or that they weren't expecting a backlash that they could just wait out. It's Devotion all over again... just ignore the issue til it goes away.

I will be utterly shocked if anything more is said about Hitman.

Why would they want to damage their own brand though. Again if you're going to use DRM might as well just use Steam.