You can always play older games instead. What's the point of new games when they are just rehashing old formulas over and over and over again?

I don't mean to insult you personally but what you said was completely nonsensical and false and I called you out on it. You said that you can't have Win10 offline for an extended period of time. You can and it will continue to work as another forum member has also stated.

With Windows 7 soon to be EoL your choosing to stay on an OS that will no longer receive updates of any kind which is your choice but a pretty daft one if your intentiion is to continue to use an internet connection and security is a concern of yours.

Well,if it's true then it's ''one sided'' and that ain't no partnership.

Unfortunately I will no longer be able to play PC games because they will not be compatible with my pc.
Most likely consoles. I don't care if I go online with them as long as its not mandatory online.
PC is a different situation because I build it I spend a lot of my time and money on it and having Microsoft messing with my baby is a Big no no.

If microsoft bought me a gaming computer then of course they are welcome to do with their pc what they want: datamine, change the settings, spy, apply updates, reboot computer, break their computer(their money), keylogg what I type so on and so on.

it may be both good and bad.

Im interested in this partnership since it may bring old microsoft-published titles on gog (age of empires franchise and rise of nations, in particular). But Im afraid since linux support there is already kinda... mediocre, to say the least (lot of titles miss ports, available on steam. And even galaxy itself wasnt ported there officially) - and such close relationships may hurt it even more.

Will see, overall. As for now - its a bit early to predict results

Cool!

(I hope we don't get any MS games here though so we can extra-self-pitify)

I gave you a reply already. I'm sorry you didn't understand.

These games won't be "on" GOG, not in the normal sense. So no these games probably won't get a "normal " release here, maybe down the road... but likley not on release.

All Galaxy 2.0 will do is display the game, let you (possibly) download / play it from Galaxy, and other info about them (like time played, achievements, etc.) if you link your MS account. These games won't be official GOG games, and everything will still be pretty much handled via Microsoft's end. You won't see MS games like Forza or Halo on GOG.com, so no it's won't be a "massive departure" from GOG's principles on DRM. The only way that will happen is if MS releases those games on GOG as DRM Free games.

Galaxy will serve as a front end for all clients and all games, but the store (ie GOG.com) itself is still seperate and still only for DRM Free GOG games.

There are some very good titles on GOG published my Microsoft studios. Let´s hope it will bring more of them.

On other side of the coin, one of my favorite games Ori and the blind forest, published by M$ studios, only works with XBOX controllers, God know why....

Thanks for the answers.

Unfortunately, it looks like we'll be waiting for quite some time for Microsoft to actually release anything here:
"You mentioned wanting to get your games onto as many platforms as possible. Does that include the Epic Games Store and GOG?"
"GOG has some specific rules that they set, as does Epic right now, about what games we can put [on them], what other stores they can be available in. We're still in the situation of what I said in the blog post of, we recognise that there are other stores out there. We want to be supportive of the other stores that are at scale—because I can also spend a lot of time porting to a ton of different stores and not actually make progress with the games, which I think is the most important part. Focused on Steam because it's the biggest and they were very supportive of the work we wanted in order to make sure our ecosystem stayed connected. So always looking at the future, there's nothing against GOG or EGS that says we wouldn't be able to support those, but right now we're focusing on the two stores that we've announced."
https://www.pcgamer.com/xboxs-phil-spencer-on-game-pass-steam-and-the-epic-games-store/

SCPM found MicroSoft's name in gog.com API as one of the video game companies back in 2015.

So I fully believe MicroSoft will release their video games for sale 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free on gog.com.

I misunderstood in that case. I thought they were saying that the XBox Game Pass thing would be available through GOG.

Marathon has nothing to do with Microsoft. Besides, you can already download it legally for free:
https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Agreed. I read this thread with hope that Microsoft was going to release it's old IP that it holds, like Black & White.