No drm is nice and all, but id rather play steam,battle.net and origin games with their platform drms than not play any at all. No offense but the gog library is lacking, no exclusives and even games that already has no drm is still lacking on this platform and can be found on for example drm steam.

Fireflower Games, absolutely.

itch.io, I don't think so. True, the vast majority of the games they offer are DRM-free, but they aren't really enforcing it.

the list of DRM free games neither. Fireflower games, for example.

edit.... so much ninjad...

I think they need to be 100% DRM-free in order to qualify.
Itch.io isn't. Not sure about the other one.

funny part is - according to the definition on that site, several games on Steam are DRM free -
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

Traveling; wanna play on steam? Oh, wait, steam needs to update on startup. On your 3G internet. That costs 0.3$/1MB.

Fallout 4 stopped working for me - it turned out the problem appears because you need to block Fallout4.exe in the firewall. Spend over half an hour looking for this solution. For the test, I've downloaded a cracked copy - what ya know, worked flawlessly! But hey, I could always send email to Bethesda support and wait few days for a response.

Games with internet connection required for singleplayer - oh, wait, servers don't work? Tough luck. Servers don't recognize your game license (happens shitton, not for me but look up Fifa problems on Origin)? Oh, well, reinstall the game. And do some other things. Your transfer? We don't care. Your time? We don't care.

People do know, they just don't care.

Those DRM forms should have been illegal, they are literally installing malware on your PC (and I mean literally, not figuratively). Then again, I could argue that Windows itself is malware.

I fcking love this.

Last Friday night we had our internet die, at the ISP end so nothing we could do, Steam had pending updates and wouldn't even load into offline mode, so thank fck for GOG.

Although it's less of a noticeable thing these days since the vast majority of my purchases are DRM free and we still very much stick to physical media for music and movies.

Good to see this getting pushed, haven't been this excited to see stuff happening in this space since The Gamers Bill Of Rights back in the day.

This would be great and all, but in my opinion, GOG really isn't there yet... constant annoyances you always hear on the forums:

* Games not getting updates and/or completely abandoned on GOG
* Backup installers not being up to date with the Galaxy version of the game
* Games on GOG generally feeling like an afterthought to Steam (still have Steam references in menus, etc.)

I'm all for GOG's success, I love Galaxy and love DRM-free, I buy a crap ton of games on here, but GOG has a long way to go to get rock solid developer support to the point where when you buy something here, you've got the confidence to know it's going to be a solid experience... in the end you have to ask yourself: what good is a DRM-free version of the game if it's not even up-to-date?

I don't know if it's just developers not caring about the DRM-free builds cause of piracy, or if it's a numbers game and Steam has the majority or a little bit of both

Heck, I even have some games here on GOG that are out of date and the DRM-free "bonus" build on the Humble Store is more up-to-date than what's here (Hyper Light Drifter comes to mind)... that's sad

don't like the name. didn't expect that from a proper store front. have some self respect.

While the games are DRM Free, if your run them through the default methods (such as the steam created desktop icon) they launch via Steam and will enact DRM functions.
It will note the Process ID and kill the game if another game from that account is launched
It will still activate the Library lock for Family sharing.

Steam, the client, is DRM.

There's a quote from Gabe bloody Newell!

Considering he's one of the key people in tricking people into not caring about DRM it's pretty funny.

Probably one of the most disturbing scandals is when Sony supplied audio CDs with DRM called XCP that literally installed a rootkit on any system that had such discs inserted. They literally got in serious trouble over that. It's bad enough DRM affected games and movies, but never expected audio CDs to also get caught.

Ha, the irony here must be messing up compasses for miles about. Not only do you not promote a sensible, professional from to anti drm, i.e. by using barely concealed swearwords, you have thaudacity to talk about drm free when things like Gwent, Absolver, goblins inc. etc. Are stretching the bounds of what can be called drm free. Go on, please do show us all how I can back up offline and play without internet, Gwent.

Stallman was right.