Open Beta GOG - No valid serial found

[BlueTemplar]

Not scammy actually.

GoG and Steam both work like a "rental service". You "rent" the game from them, and they have the serial and keys. Matrix lets you buy the whole package. So you "own" it. The difference is that you would probably not be looked at with very kind eyes if you painted a rental different colors and so on, but if you owned it, no-one would care. To protect other players against people doing "fishy" things, with the files, the "rental service" checks to see if you applied a "paintjob" and if you have, overwrites it.

That is the reason why you are locked out of beta.

That does not make any sense. Games are not cars. The only reason why you can't use open beta is that nobody bothered to create an executable free of the "DRM" for open beta. You can use open beta in Steam just fine. In the end, legitimate users who bought the game from GOG suffer and pirates can still enjoy the game.

At least the Matrix version of ShEmp doesn't have DRM - as GoG understands it - they don't count serial keys as DRM (and they also have their own system similar to Steam keys, though AFAIK Matrix doesn't give you free GoG keys when you buy a game from them ?)