That's exactly my point. Nobody would notice your vampirism - that's what the masquerade is for!

Including the dark embrace. Of course :P. Forgive me, brother, I did not notice you were a Ventrue.

See, this thread right here is why game developers don't want to release their games DRM-free.

GOG has abolished all of their core policies of old, one by one, all by themselves. They partnered with Epic, they allow developers to sneak DRM even, according to roundabout statement of blues. GOG is no longer what it used to be, even offline installers has Galaxy parts and masked telemetry. GOG isn't good old games either, anymore. It is a Steam-wannabe and much inferior, in each and every aspect. Whatever set it apart is undone. You are a new user and arrived in 2020, so you cannot possible know what GOG had been and what sorry excuse of a storefront or service, is today.

Developers don't want to do that, anyway. Old gog was serious and its fanbase dedicated. They grew big on mutual trust and consumer-friendly vision. Today, it's fiasco after fiasco, bad decision after bad decision and enraged crowds of previous die-hard supporters. Developers can release to serious storefronts and services, we will buy their games there. Gog can eat niche, many gamers and aydollars.

Ah yes, the good old "if not for X, then Y would happen" and "because of X, Y happens" form excuses.

If you really believe that game devs/pubs would (all or in large part) drop DRM if "sailing the seas" disappeared tomorrow, then I have this here bridge to sell ya.

Simply put, many major game companies like control. DRM gives them that control....thus they will likely never fully give it up.

My dude, I was with GOG back when they were still called Good Old Games. I lost access to my old account, including the email tied to it, and wasn't able to recover it. I was here about half a decade before the account you are posting from was created, I have a pretty good idea what GOG was and is, thanks.

You don't say! So, even their support, their very last remaining redeeming quality, is now also gone... Allowing an entire account to be lost, without helping you retrieve it. So, people reporting that they are now getting automated responses, a part of "solutions" proposed from the service is "Use Galaxy" and them being unable to ultimately solve their issues, must be true.

See? You are mistaken. Because your only hope to retrieve your account under this scope, is for a friend of yours to share his library with you. Do you see what you did there?!? -_-

GOG is way better than Direct2Drive and Gamersgate whos DRM free copies still need to be activated through their sites to work.
STEAM can't even compete discount wise with the likes of Fanatical or Green Man Gaming either.

STEAM is rubbish these days, basically a place to store icons of games you bought that are not DRM free.

Then imagine how rubbish a Steam wannabe must be. Plus, DRM free has already been mythbusted (refer to the dedicated thread: DRM on GOG etc from Lifthrasil).

But(with GG, at least) once such games are DLed they are DRM free.

Also you forgot Zoom-platform: doesn't have as many games as GOG or a forum, but the game installers are DRM free and work like GOG ones.

This thread is nothing really, just people airing their views etc.

Many who are GOG customers used to get games from pirate sources or at the very least from abandonware sites, they now for the most part don't do that and just buy games at GOG instead.

So in my book that means a win for the gaming industry.

And when you add to that, with many of us also re-buying games we have on disc and or at Steam etc, then the gaming industry should be laughing really .... profit profit profit.

"No"

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212184489-Can-I-share-games-with-others-?product=gog

Abusing the DRM free nature of GOG just gives publishers more excuses to use DRM. Please don't be that person, tell your friends to buy their own games. Official statement from GOG is linked above.

Here's the way I look at it:

It's your stuff, do with it as you want. However, every purchase not only boosts the health of GOG, it adds an industry-wide vote for companies to utilize them despite their DRM-Free employment. And just like in politics, every vote counts.

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The sad truth is that a lot of people don't care about achieving a balance (customers or distributors).

This requires distributors to distribute games in a consummer-friendly format where the buyers get genuine value for their money while still paying for their games and supporting the developers.

However, some people, do care and I'm glad we still have places to buy games where this delicate balance is respected, for the most part.

I don't know why people are so quick to politicize the place they purchase their games at.

To me, it was never about the store. It has always been mostly about getting games in a format that is agreeable to me and supporting the developers who make them.

I think its good that the store takes a cut as they have operating costs, but ultimately, its a means to an end.

The game development studios are not some unseen slaves working for GOG, Steam or whichever sales you point buy your games at. When you buy a game, its mostly them you are supporting (the development studio that is).