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GoG launches an anti-DRM information website called FCKDRM
- Thread starter lashman
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They were always against DRM, this has nothing to do with any tweets. But keep on dogpiling.
This is very brave of them, there are many companies that publish many DRM-Free games on GOG while publishing the rest with DRM on other storefronts, EA for instance, and they are not gonna like this.
jesus, the amount of people offended by this, is kind of ridiculous. FUCK DRM. Pure and simple. ppl boycotting cdpr over this..my god.
However I think you, just like me, would prefer todays DRM instead of something worse. I'm more inclined to believe things will become worse the better in this respect. But maybe I'm just pessemistic lol.
I'm sure that GOG created and decided to launch an anti-DRM site just now to make people forget about that tweet. Surely, it couldn't bet that both things aren't related.
The most recent EA game I see on GoG is Dragon Age Origins, from 2010. It looks like they just put up a bunch of old games because they knew their own platform was shit.
EA has published a total of 54 games on GOG, most of them are old games, but they keep publishing them from time to time.
https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=electronic_arts&sort=date
I'm mean we're kind of getting that already thanks to so many games requiring a server connection. Plus wether it's always online or not doesn't matter once the server goes down like it did for MGR's MacOS port.
Actually itch.io is not eligible, as FCK DRM only lists 100% DRM-free services, while itch.io doesn't have any anti-DRM policy.
Quote from itch.io:
I'm not sure whether any developer used this, but still, the option is there, which makes itch.io not eligible.
I don't disagree with the message, but what is it with GOG trying to cater to the edgelord demo recently.
To be fair, GOG is not 100% DRM-free service either so they don't have a place in there by those rules. They have games with drm multiplayer (while it could be provided with user managed servers like in the past) and some feature locked behind account. And then there is Gwent. They had plenty of occasions for being pro consumer and they didn't them.
To me this is another clumsy pr stunt by GOG, appealing to a young audience, with no real effort put into it.
I will visit their gamescom party on Friday evening and ask them about the campaign.
I really hate DRM when it comes to E-Books, it's a total clusterfuck.
The music industry was also really terrible fifteen years ago, but now all music CDs and MP3s are DRM-free, so they learned their lessson.
I really hate DRM when it comes to E-Books, it's a total clusterfuck.
The music industry was also really terrible fifteen years ago, but now all music CDs and MP3s are DRM-free, so they learned their lessson.
Maybe harm was a strong word but it's hard to take this as a serious incentive with a url like that.
And I hate DRM and would like nothing more than for it to go away.
