If your game is legitimate why do worry about DRM? Are GoG's game illegimate?

That's probably for the best. It's never a good idea to give money to worries. They'll just blow it all on anti-depressants (and probably hookers -- because every joke's better with hookers!).

Nothing whatsoever to do with legitimacy. It's about user control. I am a control freak. I buy something, I want it, totally and fully under my control, no third party whatsoever. Therefore I support drm free, because drm itself is a method of co trolling your access to the product. Now this control is not just via programming or hardware methods, if something requires the internet for instance, you are then relying on a third party to provide the authentication, or multiplayer services. That is why I believe online only is far worse than drm, which effectively can be broken locally.
for years there has been this vicious cycle of because of piracy, drm, because of drm piracy. A good example is Gwent. Features primarily on a drm free store, yet you do not own a single byte of it, totally reliant on felt to give you access. This is control at a fundamental, non- readable level and that is exactly what I am against, call it drm or what ever. Skynet will not win!!!

some people don't have very good internet. I for one only get 15 Gb of bandwidth a month and when I do have it the connection is sketchy, going on and off, shutting down during storms. That makes some types of DRM a killer.

Firstly GoG's games are all 100% legal.

DRM does more than check legitimacy, it controls use, controls what and when and where you use your purchased software.

The reason I almost entirely use GoG, and will never use Steam is because of how DRM stops some legitimate uses.

I have a wife and 5 kids. Books, films, console games are often bought as a shared family resource. No-ones reading Harry Potter, then its free for anyone to pick up and read. Want to play Lego Star-wars, if the disc and 1 of the 3 xboxes are free then you can play it.

But with steam I have 100 games. Play 1 and the other 99 are locked from a legitimate use.

To be honest the legal guys only allowed you 15gb a month for a reason ;op

You're not wrong. :P

DRM does lots to help criminals not get a game, but they still end up with it. But the paying customer is still stick with it.

DRM can drop framerates but 25% or more (as it did with steam's copy of Witcher 2), keep you from playing the game because it malfunctions (alpha protocol did that) or keep you from playing a single player game at all because the online system is broken (Diablo 3). Or you can drop your connection and not play (lots of Ubi titles did that for a while).

Check out fckdrm.com and get educated. Don't pay to be screwed.

Why would you need to check out such an offensive site? Merely look at those companies who are doing open source, community driven projects, and those supporting proper drm free. Don't fall for gimmicky flash banners to sell products. Even a simple change from excel to csv can alter the progress of proprietary control.

Last time he ever asks that question in here. :P

Reminds me of the day I joined and asked why Diablo 2 wasn't sold here. XD

I know people mean well when the suggest offline installers, but they aren't always the best solution in every case. OP never indicated they wanted to have a backup of their game.

Simply playing offline is as simple as not using Galaxy, instead launching from the games exe file. Getting rid of Galaxy would simply be uninstalling it, your games would still work. And getting rid of cloud saves is simply going into Galaxy's options and turning it off.

So by suggesting offline installers you could be wasting somebodies time and bandwidth to get the same result they could get without offline installers without making that clear to them. If OP kept Galaxy installed then followed this to get offline installers, then installed them, the end result would be the same. Galaxy would detect the files, so it would not really help them at all.

You should change your point of view.
If you pay to play a game, it's most likely legitimate anywhere.

But the fact that some stores force restrictions on you is immoral worldwide, and even illegimate itself in some countries.

GOG was based on the principle of treating customers fairly and giving customers full and unrestricted access to the games they have paid for.

Worrying about DRM is a real concern - if Steam ever shuts down, you lose all access to your legal games.
If a DRM-free store closes (see DotEmu for instance), you will keep your games for as long as you have backups.

If you want to play offline but keep Galaxy installed, simply go to the games folder, find the EXE file and create a new shortcut. Place the shortcut on your desktop.

If you simply want to play without cloud saves, go to the GOG ICON in the top left of Galaxy, click settings -> features -> turn off cloud saves. But cloud saves only back up what is locally saved, saves are always stored locally too.

Start the game. ALT+TAB out of the game. Delete the saves in explorer. Exit game.

Any deleted files from the PC will also be deleted from your cloud saves.

That's a cool trick. +1