Quoting: scainePlenty of DRM-free games on Steam [1 [External Link],2 [External Link]].

That if you don't consider requirement to use the client to legally install the game (any subsequent time). DRM-free means you can legally install it from your backup, no clients attached.

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Quoting: LeopardSo ignore this simple fact while you can , until the very end Shmerl. Being a Polish person is not automatically means being an advocate of GOG , CDPR. Drop it. Please.

I recommend you to avoid speculation about personal matters. Not only because I'm not Polish and what you said it simply wrong, but because it wastes everyone's time and easily falls into trolling category.

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Quoting: jensWhat I don't like is the constant Valve/Steam bashing from the GOG fraction that feels the need to highlight that DRM-free is the only allowed religion.

I personally don't consider DRM to be acceptable practice. That precludes any option of saying "that's OK to do".

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Quoting: jensPlease come down from your elitism.

Please come down from your comfortable position of using the incumbent, and don't think that if you are comfortable with the situation, everyone else should be. Apply the same logic to yourself as a Linux user, except from the indifferent Windows user's perspective. We hear this narrative all the time, so be considerate and don't use it.

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Quoting: LeopardTheir vision is same.

I don't really know what CDPR vision is, they are completely non talkative and never explain their reasoning (unlike GOG employees who gave AMAs and actually answer questions). Did you see any CDPR developers here? You can find GOG developers here on GamingOnLinux.

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Quoting: jensMy guess is that they deliberately decided that the very few Linux GOG only users are simply not worth the effort (which would be a professional business decision). Though just assuming here, thus these are my thoughts only.

Treating GOG Linux users as second class citizens isn't something I consider professional either, so your hypothetical scenario only highlights my point.

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Quoting: jensI can't image that you know what has been discussed between the engineers and publisher of this game, so I guess you are just assuming things.

There is no need to assume here. They explicitly said, lack of Galaxy needed for MP is release blocker here. If you want to blame it on the publisher - it doesn't make a difference to the end user. The result is still messed up. And yes, I consider such result unprofessional.

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Quoting: KimyrielleBeth & Co. are openly hostile towards Linux. GOG is just "not friendly". Not the same thing. And sorry, but I don't consider a company that doesn't even port its own games to Linux "Linux friendly".

GOG isn't run by CDPR, they are related, but not the same people are making decisions for each. So while CDPR can now be considered not Linux friendly because they totally borked The Witcher 3 Linux release, GOG is Linux friendly, because they support Linux games. However, I'd say they are not doing enough to avoid problems such as these, i.e. lack of Galaxy preventing Linux releases.

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Quoting: jensI think it's quite unprofessional to call an engineer unprofessional without ever having spoken to him/her
or without ever having seen a bit of code.

Unfortunately not making multiplayer optional as a release blocker is so rampant, that it is unprofessional, because developers didn't do due research on this topic.

GOG are very explicit, that Galaxy is indeed not a requirement. But it's developers' responsibility to make sure they don't code it in as mandatory. GOG aren't forcing anyone to do it. And multiple developers managed to make Linux releases without Galaxy just fine, even though they are using Galaxy in their Windows versions.

Sure, GOG can be blamed for not releasing Galaxy, and in result causing this mess. But developers can be blamed all the same for not releasing without it. According to GOG Linux support, they offer all resources and help to explain to developers how to handle that. It's up to them whether to actually do it.

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Quoting: NarvarthThese people just forget that DRM-free games on GOG are also DRM-free on Steam...

Nope. You forget that nothing is DRM-free on Steam.

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