"DRM is only impacting the good-hearted passionate gamers out there," Guillaume Rambourg, vice president GOG North America, told Eurogamer Germany in an interview translated for me. "The very same gamers who are ready to spend $50 or more to own their favourite triple-A title and support our industry.

"Going through some cumbersome online activation procedure? Sometimes even having to connect to the Internet to activate the single-player mode of your favourite title? Or even worse, being obliged to remain online to play that single-player mode? That's not really the best way to reward those faithful gamers who just spent quite a chunk of their monthly income to buy your (expensive) game.

"Our industry should be cherishing and treating all gamers with respect, those people who pay our wages, servers, development projects and what not. Instead, we just make it frustrating for them to buy games. How schizophrenic is that?

"DRM is not protecting any product," he added. "It is harming your fans and your brands in the long run."

"If being a DRM-free platform was such a threat, then how come GOG.com welcomes 2 million gamers a month, distributes 755 games as of today, has been profitable from the day one; and is more 'alive and kicking' than ever, five-and-a-half years after we launched?"

"We totally believe that distributing games without DRM is a good thing for our industry," he said. "Let's make it easy and rewarding for gamers to buy games. They are not criminals and they do not need DRM."

Today GOG is the "number-one alternative to Steam", Rambourg boasted, with close to 200 publishers and developers on board. "I humbly believe we have gained a certain legitimacy and expertise, which we are always glad to share within the industry.

"We have never lost any partner who decided to give DRM-free digital distribution a try with us, which is something we are proud of. We want to make the world of gaming 100 per cent DRM-free, just like the music industry successfully did.

"It is just a matter of time until some remaining irrational fears vanish and we would be glad to speed up this process."

Full article http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-18-gamers-are-not-criminals-and-they-do-not-need-drm

I agree that we don't need super restrictive DRM especially the need to be on-line to be able to play, but I do think that the industry needs to protect itself such as banning those who hack their console to enable it to play pirated games. 

I might just have to give this GOG service a try.

They're good. When there was conterversy about the EA remake of dungeon keeper for mobile, they gave out the full original game for free

you know as the future comes, DRM is going to increase more and more.

What I find funny is the amount of people who believe its the $2000 PC owners who are pirating.

I always hear for example "Why make Watch Dogs look way better on PC if its just going to be pirated"

The people who's PC's are outputting visuals better than PS4/One are not the ones pirating.

Oh they can afford $2000 PC yet not afford a $50 or less game. Most gaming PC users buy their games for cheap like less than $30.

But Yea GOG rules. I use them whenever I can. Loved how they sold Witcher games without DRM, other services like Steam and what not included some DRM into the game. The game from those places had horrible tech issues and had to patch it to the non DRM version to play right.

And whoever pirates a non DRM game such as Witcher games deserves to be taken out back and rapped with a baseball bat with nails sticking out.

See, DRM is one of the main reasons why I don't buy Ubisoft and EA games anymore cause I really don't understand the logic... Like, if I buy a game, I should be able to play it without any issues but what does Uplay and Origin do? Nope, our servers are offline, you can't play shit, we know you paid $60 for it but please go fuck urself while we slowly get our servers back up 2-4 weeks later... Like Fuck those companies...

I mean, my issue isn't really the idea of DRM cause yes, IPs need to be protected against bad people but what I hate is when DRM gets in the way of the consumer and that really pisses me off! Steam does it right, its a DRM that works and when it doesn't, you can still play the games! I hate companies that do bad practices such as this and if I have to miss out on some of the games once a while, so be it... And tbh, I don't really care that much about Shitfield 4 or Crap_Dogs and etc...

Don't you miss the days when you could pop in a dvd/cartridge and just start playing.  No logging in, no updates, no patches, ect.

If your lucky you get to blow into the cartridge and system first.  I miss that.

But some games still let me just pop in and play, or double click icno and play.  Nothing is more infuriating than having to open up steam or origin or something to play a game I own.  

Yeaa! Sighh! I truely believe that DRM will continue to get worse from here until all we are left with is free-to-play games

Yeah, I do agree. The extra programs on top of the game. Not to mention games like GTA 4. Windows live, social club, and steam (seriously R* FU) piss me off to no end. I still call Origin and steam glorified NO-CD cracks. That's what they basically are. Ignoring the stores. At least steam gives u a offline mode that lasts 90 days without bothering you. Orgins offline mode is nothing.

These articles are BS.
They never talk about the fact that the industry benefits from economies of scale, which means they are able to afford DRM free games on PC because of the revenue generated by consoles.
If console revenue was to be cut overnight, selling games on PC alone without DRM would be suicidal because once they increase the prices (the alternative would be to drop budgets), more people are going to pirate the games.

And I know there are a handful of PC exclusives with massive budgets which are sustainable, but im talking about the whole industry in general, not the top 0.5%.