trynoval: Don't fall for self-insignificance syndrome. ;)
Lots of devs do care about selling their game on GOG. Devs usually know that DRM is stupid. It's publishers being negative about DRM-Free, because they often have bad knowledge of real world, living in ivory towers, and they like oppression.

GOG sell a lot of game copies, and it's an effective mechanism of motivation to remove DRM from games. You can look how Sony cared enough to publish Horizon Zero Dawn on GOG on launch. It's not a shabby thing to happen. And in case with Denuvo removal. Many games that gets Denuvo removal being published on GOG first, with Denuvo being removed from Steam version happens later. It's a hard evidence of industry's recognition of GOG.

GamezRanker: As I said a few times in various threads: GOG doesn't have much control over the store pages....each IP holder does.
(they told me as much when I informed them of things that should be changed on a few store pages long ago, and they said their hands were tied)

Gersen: Personally I would say it's subjective. It's like asking how much of a game still exists without achievements, for me who don't care about achievements I would answer 100% but for somebody else who cares about 100% completing everything then lacking achievement might remove a good part of his/her enjoyment of the game.

Personally when I played Hitman 1 I didn't really cared about the Escalation mission, but that's because I usually don't like all this "meta" thingy. I prefer to play game story and side quest and for me the Escalation felt more like some randomly generated extra content added on top of the real game. The main interest of the game is to try to kill the main targets using creative methods and often with self imposed challenges (e.g. kill and leave the scene without being detected at all) so killing some random NPC X times in a row to get a higher score didn't really interested me, I only did it because it was a way to unlock stuff.

Sr. Chalice: There are ZERO differences between steam & GoG.

Linko64: ''Does Zoom talk about DRM-Free store'' It's in all the comms and centre in the website :P I can't say too much with the MODS coming for a wee tap so feel free to PM

MarkoH01: I guess one difference still is that you can LAUNCH the game without a client which afaik is not possible with the Steam version. Maybe this will be the future definition of DRM-free and posted on the game pages instead:

"DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to launch. "

MarkoH01: I guess one difference still is that you can LAUNCH the game without a client which afaik is not possible with the Steam version. Maybe this will be the future definition of DRM-free and posted on the game pages instead:

"DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to launch. "
MarkoH01: Could it be against the community guidelines to advertize other stores?

Alexim: But are these "Elusive Targets" really available on GOG, at least for those online? Because I knew they were time-limited events, and I think even on Steam they're no longer playable. One of IOI's many absurd decisions.

trynoval: Don't fall for self-insignificance syndrome. ;)
Lots of devs do care about selling their game on GOG. Devs usually know that DRM is stupid. It's publishers being negative about DRM-Free, because they often have bad knowledge of real world, living in ivory towers, and they like oppression.

GOG sell a lot of game copies, and it's an effective mechanism of motivation to remove DRM from games. You can look how Sony cared enough to publish Horizon Zero Dawn on GOG on launch. It's not a shabby thing to happen. And in case with Denuvo removal. Many games that gets Denuvo removal being published on GOG first, with Denuvo being removed from Steam version happens later. It's a hard evidence of industry's recognition of GOG.

trynoval: But they can be made playable in DRM-Free fully offline version! Just make a built-in daily event system. :D