No one stops Feral from publicly saying they are not pro DRM. But they don't. They are scared to make a stand, because they are dealing with many DRM inclined publishers. That alone makes them pro-DRM already.

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I'm not the only one. I like to bug DRM proponents to release DRM-free, so you'll see me mentioning it again. Don't think Feral will get of the hook on this.

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They are pro-DRM, it was mentioned by many people already. Just because they aren't pro crazy DRM, doesn't mean they are not pro DRM in general.

Once I'll see their games in DRM-free stores, I'll agree they aren't pro DRM.

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Yes, it's likely a combination of those reasons. Feral being pro-DRM and not willing to handle their own site sales, GOG not willing to help such publishers get their cut and etc.

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Quoting: wvstolzingWhat exactly is there inside the 'goodie packs', esp. that of TW3? Anything interesting beyond (presumably) the soundtrack? TW2's 'extras' pack on GOG had the absolutely face-palm-tastic 'goodie' that was the topless playboy photoshoot of Triss; so I'm approaching it from a cringed angle already.

I didn't notice anything new (besides Thronebreaker stuff, since I never bought that game). There is the Witcher concert there, which you could be missing, but they already had giveaways for it.

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Quoting: EhvisAs long as GOG are worse they have little to worry about.

They worry too much about their DRM, so GOG users don't need to worry about them. Once they get over it, then we'll see. They can start with offering DRM-free games like XCOM and XCOM 2 from their site. So far I didn't buy a single Feral game.

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As usual, Feral give GOG users the short end of the stick. And they refuse to explain the reason. I'd say they are not the heroes of Linux gaming like some portray them to be.

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That's why I said that it's most of the time. There are opposite cases (when libraries break ABI). But in my experience, they are more rare. Both can happen.

And then there is the topic of forward compatibility of libstdc++.

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In terms of actual problems faced. At least in my experience. More often than not, games that ship outdated libs and crash are fixed by removing those outdated libs.

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Quoting: DesumMy problem with buying games on GOG is having to mess with dependencies before I get to play the game. It's a major pain in the ass that makes me more forgiving of the ancient mess of old Ubuntu 12.04 libs that is the Steam Runtime.

Dealing with dependencies for GOG games is much less of an issue than using ancient runtime from Ubuntu 12.04.

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