A thread ignored, like it was, changes nothing. If Gog simply pretended there was nothing to worry about then everything everyone typed here would amount to screaming into the void. Their community deserves better than that. Those low score reviews finally got Gog to acknowledge that there is something happening.

Then again calling it "review bombing" is misleading as all hell. It's saying that all those reviews don't have a fair technical reason to give a low score to a game that is defective by design.

I assume you've had a long week, so I'll let you off but what I said was

''If you don't listen/give users a place to have their say, then they will review the bomb as it is proven to get results. This isn't a new method and I'm stunned they would mention it as it confirms the practices as effective for future issues.''

This was talking about the topic of review bombs in general. If you still can't understand I will wish you a good weekend and hope your reading skill is restored as you unwind.

I've not bought the game PRECISELY because of this DRM fiasco, and haven't posted a review about it so I'm not affected, but I'd like to point that bad score because a game has DRM is still an issue related to the game, so they are not against any review guideline.

I'd also like to add I'm downright APPALED that the game could be released on GOG in this state. I could somewhat understand if a relatively unknown game having some hidden DRM for some parts could slip through the cracks. But Hitman is a VERY well known game, the always-online lock were pretty infamous and hotly debated at the time of its release already, so there is absolutely no way the people who greenlit a heavy-DRM game to be sold on GOG could have been blindsided.
It means there is now an official acceptance of DRM in GOG, and that's a pretty ghastly change.

Remember, GOG : the MAIN reason (often the ONLY one) people buy games from you, is because of your "no-DRM" stance. If you lose it, you lose your main draw and a massive part of your business. With DRM in games you sell, you're just Steam with less choices.
You're killing yourself here.

Meanwhile, you (GOG) tolerate games that are against your guidelines

GOG is a storefront for PC games. Technical aspects such as online requirements and DRM'd content certainly deserve to be discussed within reviews. Especially on a storefront that is claiming the game is 100% DRM-free. This is nonsense and a cop-out from GOG's staff.

Extremely disappointed to say the least.

That doesn't account for the online only server drm factor of a game on reviews you know? Thus it sounds like you are saying any mention of that in reviews is against guidelines thus it should be added to the in guidelines that is allowed to be mentioned aswell as if not by proxy G.O.G is admitting they will be purging almost all bad reviews at the moment

Well, but you certainly agree, that GOG had the option of simply ignoring/deleting the 1-star reviews, while still changing nothing? Nowhere is it stated that it was the review bombing that "changed" minds in GOG's HQ.
Ignored doesn't mean unread/unheard. As GOG employees have mentioned already at countless occations, here in the forum.

The same to you.

EDIT: you gotta love this "community":

Quote: "So, GOG has released a game with always online DRM. And now they've announced in the forums that they're going to censor and remove negative reviews warning their customers about that. That's fine. Making new accounts is easy, and I can keep this up as long as they can."

I appreciate that you finally reply but it sucks that it had to go this far before you even bothered acknowledging the problem.

On one hand, I hope that this "will be updating in the coming weeks" means something more than the similar statement you guys wrote one month ago about the Quake Enhanced version that never came to GoG.

On the other, honestly, and as someone who really really want Hitman to be really DRM-Free and just get the game and update his review, threatening the users to remove their reviews for "review bombing" on an issue that has produced 24 pages of bad reviews, a 40 pages thread on the issue, several related threds on what's going on, and the game's forum to talk only about this, is just digging your reputation deeper and deeper.

Also, is a shitty "DRM Bad" review going against the guidelines? People is reviewing the product, not the game, and having DRM in a product in GoG is probably the worst thing that can happen to a game for sale here, a shop that prides itself on being DRM-Free.

Yeah, I get it, review bombing sucks, but its the only real way users have to both protest against something they don't like on a game and to warn other users on what's going on.

I think the only fair exit here is first really fixing the issue, then removing the reviews and start anew.

Why is this getting downvoted?

I'm not sure if deleting reviews is the right choice. If you release a heavily DRMed game on a platform for DRM-free games, you basically just released a bad product. That's what the reviews are all about.

If you sell a shovel as a screwdriver, people have to review how well it works as a screwdriver.

At this point there is zero reason to be buying Hitman 2016 through GOG versus Steam and zero reason buying Hitman 2016 period as playing Legacy content through the Hitman 2/3 executables improves that content significantly.

You start eroding away at DRM-free game requirements on GOG and GOG simply becomes an inferior Steam. The refund policy is nice so props for that.

How are they supposed to know, if you use an alt. ;)
Come on...who are you really?

that doesn't matter! ;-)
i don't want to loose my library