You're welcome. )
Just so you know - replacing someone's post with a "snip" is a manner to show that you disrespect what he is saying.

If this works like the Steam version and I remember things correctly, you can save offline, but online/offline saves aren't compatible (you can't use an offline save to continue a game online, or viceversa).

It's still in the highlights, I guess that top banner's standard lifespan just ended.
You need to refund it now, if you're dissatisfied, and want GOG to know how you feel. Because to get away with this garbage and sell DRMed game is current gamble of GOG store management.

Sadly it's GOG. See the note on the front page? Curated Store. It's GOG, who allowed to publish DRMed game version, that has zero difference with existing Steam version.

Well, this mod looks nice, GOG should try to pressure IO to do the same here.

This game has online only DRM and should not be sold on GoG.

Both sides were 100% aware of it. They're just playing idiots in attempt to win support of unaware and sympathetic people.
Which is even more insulting, meaning they are still trying to get along with this.

Which is really, really stupid. After this story gets into newspapers, there will be no way to play it back.

And community would only lit more fires. Work week is ending, we're approaching weekends! Where everyone is at home, shopping games, reading news.

Which French pr/salesman? Where can I read more about that? Thanks in advance.

Yongyea could perhaps read articles/social media posts on the matter.....that alone would bring more attention to the issue.

As for The Quartering: you mean because he dares have thoughts/opinions some dislike?
I don't give a toss about that, and i'd expect many other gamers don't either. The main thing that counts here is that he has a large audience which he could pass the information on to.

IOI 100% aware of that. I mean, they are selling a game with online DRM for 5 years. And you should live under the rock for more than a decade to not know that GOG is a DRM-Free store.

Wow, I admit I was happy about having this game here, and didn't even notice about the online-locked content and the controversy it has created...

But consider this: given the situation that a publisher agrees to sell a game on GOG but refuses to remove certain DRMed/locked features, what do you think GOG should do?

1) Keep most single-player content DRM-Free, but require Galaxy or online connection for certain features or multiplayer

2) Remove all the locked content and keep the game with just the DRM-free content

3) Refuse to sell the game here completely

#1 is the case here (although the amount of locked content seems to be outrageous). GOG sells the game. Players that don't care much about DRM or online verification can get the game and fully play it. A few others might have enough with the DRM-Free content (which is more than other platforms, where the game is totally DRMed and there are no offline installers available). People who care more about DRM-freedom can just blacklist the game and ignore it.

#2 is a very usual case here on GOG. It allow users that aren't interested in multiplayer, daily challenges or whatever extra features included the game enjoy them totally DRM-Free. But the result, in many cases, is that GOG users end up having inferior/cropped versions of games at the same price as other platforms. And incidentally, this kind of games are more usually outdated or abandoned by devs...

#3 That would be the most consequent choice for a store that claims to be DRM-Free, would reaffirm GOG policies and would please the most zealot users on GOG. But it would leave many players , more conformist or with a more flexible approach to DRM-Free, without the chance to get a game they might want to play. Besides, GOG is simply a business, not an activist organization, so if something means a chance to sell a product they aren't going to miss the chance.


I hope we don't continue to see this kind of products in the future, but I'm not telling anyone what they can buy/sell or not. As a consumer, everyone can make their own choice.

Because those reports are incorrect. You have all the stages (as in, at least in Hitman 1, none of the online content introduce any new location, it's just extra challenge to be done in the existing story levels) and, even thought you start with one costume and one weapon, you can obtain and uses all the weapons and costumes that are in the level itself similar to how older games were working. The un-lockable are just extra weapons or costumes you start with directly and don't have to find or obtain in the level.

As I said in my first post in this thread, while it is unacceptable the way this game was released on Gog, I find peoples are highly exaggerating the online content compared to the offline one. If you are a old-school Hitman player and you don't know about the unlockables and the challenges then the offline part looks like any other Hitman game.

Obviously, there is a fourth option: 4) IOI sells a 100% offline version with all the content of 5 years old game that had even given free of other store. Then, the only "plus" to buy here this game (many, many of us have this game on Steam o Epic store) is to get a 100% DRM free complete version of the game that it'll work when the IOI servers got down.

If nobody gives us this fourth option, GOG should take the thirth one to fulfill its philosophy (FCKDRM, DRM Free an so on). After that, if GOG want to become a "normal" store like Steam or Epic store selling all kind of products without worries about DRMs, it should make a formal declaration about this change... to all its users.

All I will say(on a "totally unrelated note"), is: those whom some would call n-p-c types will often just blindly believe/trust/like some and not believe/trust/like others in a similar manner, and will judge/sort them based more on their stances/leanings than the content of their actions/character.

Take TheQuartering, for example: he has done a good amount of charity work(for animal charities, a local game store that was trying to rebuild after being vandalized, etc).....even giving money from his own pocket on a number of occasions. He has also tried to help other YTers when they needed it. And yet, some would overlook all that just because he doesn't align with them on certain things.