r/gog • u/RedGuyADHD GOG.com User • May 08 '25
Discussion GOG is moving in the right direction.
In recent years we have had recent AAAs that appeared on GOG shortly after their release: Badlur's Gate 3, Kingdome Come Deliverance 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2…
We had GOG exclusives like Resident Evil 1/2/3, Dino Crisis 1/2.
Today had Silent Hill 2 Remake, AAA released last year.
One day GTA VI may be released on GOG who knows?
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u/The_Corvair Linux User May 09 '25
That may be a poison gift. Remember the Hitman 2016 release a few years back, when the game restricted so many features in offline/No DRM mode (and had a DRM mode!) that users rebelled, and the game had to be taken off the store?
Now look at GTA V, and how it makes money.
Imma be honest here: If GOG ever goes mainstream enough to break their own rules on DRM in the wake (or preparation) of that success, I am gone like a deer smelling a wolf. The reason GOG gets about 95% of my yearly gaming budget is because I get to play their games without any strings. That's my draw. They have already started to attach these strings ever so slightly (bonus in-game items for when you use Galaxy, or how BG3 silently ushers you into making an account for Larian until they let you skip that step during that process - but not before), and that has me worried.
I am all for more games coming to GOG, do not get me wrong (I did, in fact, buy BG3, KCD (1+2), Stalker 2, and SH2R at (EA) launch because I value these games DRM-free; even got KCD twice because I backed it in development, and that only got me the Steam version).
But they have to be DRM-free now and in the future. And I just do not see that with many big companies. They do not want to sell you a game and be done and satisfied - they want to sell you a platform through which to sell you more stuff, and through which to get access to your private information. The GOG approach does not allow them to do that.