At which point GOG should have flipped the bird right back at them, instead, they chose to sell it as-is. IOI might be a bunch of assholes, and they are, but the final decision to put the game on the store is still entirely down to GOG.

I haven't raised my voice here for ages but this makes me cry.
I'm asking myself if this is still GOG we all used to know.
The bitterness in my mouth cannot be expressed by any words.
Hope never dies though..

Agree, it drives me crazy when developers add online DRM to single player part of games.

Didn't you know? It's a "trans-game" (DRM to "DRM free")....they expect everyone to just acknowledge it as DRM free and buy it anyways.

We never asked for this.

FU GOG.

Your probably right.

GOG replied back to my ticket about Hitman DRM.

This is what they said to me.

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback.
I'll forward it to the proper team.
Have a nice day.

Regards

Alright GOG you have over 500 replies to this thread doing something.

GOG: What a shame
(Deus Ex reference)


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GOG: *crickets*
(technically, doing nothing is doing something)

Welcome to the club. https://www.gog.com/forum/general/boycotting_gog_2021/page1

It's a little more than a working day. Gog is never fast to answer, even when they do, but if you multiply the time by two it's not going to help ;)

It's nice to see that for once GOG got things ready in time, and they already have a DRM team in place.

I know. But at least I won't finance these politics. I've spent a lot of money here to support the DRM-free idea. Now, I don't have any reason anymore to spend money here.

IOI probably thought they could just pass this off under the rug and just take in pure profit without fixing the game for GOG and nobody would notice. If they truly wanted to make the game DRM free they should have hired a team of engineers to add the additional content in engine. This is corporate greed trough and trough. GOG on the other hand should have done their research and seen all those components that are missing from the game and are locked behind IOI's online DRM functions. Let's see if IOI will fix this or the GOG team will have to come with a solution on their end. This is one of the reasons why i hate DRM in the first place, the game literally loses functionality if you don't have a connection to the internet. My internet was down for two days till yesterday due to a storm. Thankfully all the games i've bought on GOG are DRM free. So i personally would wait until Hitman has full DRM free functions before spending money on it. The older Hitman games are FULLY DRM free so no rush to buy the new one.

This is why GOG needs DRM free competitor. The only store showing some promise is Zoom Platform, but who knows how they will turn out in the future.

The DRM team probably gets paid really well. haha

And yet the comment by the blue in this thread made it clear that GOG was already aware of the online requirements...