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GOG has not been in a good place in the past year. There was the Devotion debacle, Cyberpunk 2077, what a disappointment that was. Then there was the attempted HITMAN release, the fact that the DRM-free game store still sells games with DRM, the fact that Linux users still don't have an official client, this entire spreadsheet, etc... GOG has been stumbling a lot.
DRM-free stores do have a place and a purpose, but the way GOG has been going about doing things... it's not great. I do wish they did better. I LIKE the idea of a store that only sells DRM-free games, but the way GOG operates is just half-assed. Here's hoping 2022 is the year GOG turns things around.
I use GOG for years. I believe that when they began to implement their own launcher it was a misstep. I know someone else on their forums pointed it out better than I could but had they stayed DRM FREE without launchers they could have avoided a lot of cost with having to 1) Keep up with the launcher battle 2) Deal with DRM creep coming into their releases 3) Have a unique identity in the game digital distribution world.
The amount of research I have to do before I pull the trigger to buy one of their games made me back up my titles and close my account.
Well put. And I hate it how much I empathize with this sentiment. Every time I want to buy something on GOG I have to make sure it's not a lesser version of a game available elsewhere. It's annoying to say the least.