The community actually did a godly job of fixing what is fixable, no doubts there. But it is not at a point where GOG can confidently sell it and presume that it is going to work for most people. The fan patches are very dirty binary hacks, and that's the best you can hope for without source code. There is tons of issues yet to solve, including games not launching at all. Those that do work break every once in a while with new Windows updates... It's all a big hassle.

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Oh, I have a strong opinion about that...I'd say Command and Conquer 2: Tiberian sun. That was massively hyped back in 1999, and I, a gullible teenager, was so looking forward to it, waiting excitedly for the release. And then it was a total disappointment, mediocre, unbalanced gameplay and a lame story that didn't answer anything. That pretty much killed my interest in the C&C franchise so I can't tell you about later games.
Apart from that I only played the original C&C and Red alert, plus the expansions. They were fun back then (late 1990s), and the original C&C had genuinely great atmosphere (Kane wasn't as mad then as in C&C2, he was really interesting, charismatic and mysterious). But of course they're horribly dated by now.

I'd say RA3: Uprising.

I liked C&C3 and RA3 very much, as well as Kane's Wrath. Uprising, though, was shallow and disappointing... that was released March 2009, after Kane's Wrath. It was like a paid tutorial for a game that wasn't there.

For me, it started to go down after C&C 3.

Whenever they started giving units toggled abilities and upgrades. It all became too finicky after that...

I somewhat agree. It was Tiberian Sun development when EA kicked in. They made Westwood to wrap up the game, cut most of the promised features, mess with the story (it was not ready at the time) and of cause there was no time to polish the balance and the game itself.

Still TS wasn't a bad game, it had some cool moments (like ability to crush bridges with units on them), but it was not a great game like StarCraft either. And it definitely was not up to fans expectations.

2008 with C&C 3 expansion Kane's Wrath. After that it wen't totally downhill with Red Alert 3 in the same year and made a suicide with C&C 4.

So finish it with Kane's Wrath.

RA3 uprising, 2009. I like RA3 but couldn't get into C&C 4, which also killed the series.

That's just nostalgia talking!

Is there any way to legally get and play RA 3 DRM free now a days?

Purchase the license, but get the binaries... elsewhere.

If you mean the SecuROM DRM above and beyond Steam, they removed that in a patch a long time ago.

Hello Comrade,

He said "legally get and play".

Using cracks isn't legal as you are defeating the copy protection.

Red Alert 3 was ok it was not super great but it was not terrible, it was fun doing co-op missions but command & Conquer 3 was bad as well as 4 which was not really fun