CGMagazine talks to the Managing Director of GOG, Urszula Jach-Jaki to dive into all things DRM and how GOG offers a much different experience.
What I want to say here is that a person who wants to pirate a game will find a way to do it, and most importantly, it is a person that most likely wouldn’t buy the game in the first place. This basically means that access to the game you paid for is conditional—you can only access it if you’re online, if the DRM still works as intended, if the online server is still operating, and so on. With more recent games now on the platform, the DRM-free approach works as a breath of fresh air, ensuring players can enjoy the experiences without struggling with the many ways companies bloat the games in an attempt to curtail piracy. Lastly, our GOG GALAXY client, an easy way to download and update games as well as play multiplayer modes, is, and will remain, optional for accessing single-player offline mode. We believe gamers have the right to decide how they use, enjoy, and keep the games they buy, hence our dedicated DRM-free approach, which is distinctive to GOG. GOG is a platform that bucks this trend, opting for a service that not only releases new games but also distributes a range of classic titles without DRM.