I'm of the opinion that if GOG really cared about it, they would have integrated either direct LAN or a downloadable server you could run on your LAN that is a replacement for Galaxy and would have made it so that it is dead simple for a game dev that integrates into Galaxy to integrate into that too.

Might have made the need for separate offline installers moot too if they had done that properly, but I think that's an area where they prioritized building a moat around their business over being a drm-free store.

Honestly, for me, stop killing games is definitely for Steam and other big time drm-pushers, but I think it will also help to nudge GOG to stay on mission, because they have needed some reminding about that in the past and I think they could do more.

Sooner than that, it looks like.
939.628 signatures as of right now.

Granted there might be a decent chunk turning out non-legit after the verification process.

Not sure about the details but as I learned just now the influx of new signees could also be comprised of what appears to be disgruntled World of Warcraft players of all things.
And they are Legion.

And the Microsoft layoffs, studio closures and cancellations of a bunch of games, of course - this most probably plays into the resurgence of the initiative too.

The July layoffs have been very juicy already, and it's barely just begun.
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2025

Those are not mutually exclusive.

Let's go! 1 million ECI signatures!

And there is still in time to sign.

Where were you when history was being made?

But it's GOG who is pushing for Galaxy support (only?), since they have started it.

Yeah, and this of course is a completely valid base to just deny the not-so-small minority of players who do care about MP this privilege. If MP actually was this small a percentage, then MP would simply not exist anymore, at all, and be completely unusable for DRM purposes due to its low impact. Both are obviously not the case, though since a large number of players are perfectly content to be DRM-confined in exchange for some "achievements", the percentage of players who care both about MP AND DRM-freeness may indeed be tiny, as you assert.

Louis Rossmann just made 2 big videos talking about Stop Destroying VideoGames initiative explaining many things about it and his opinion:

Part 1 (25 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibEZ9-Psss

Part 2 (1 hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7c1DjeQbI0

And an interview with Ross Scott (3 hours):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2_FvvqyR0

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For those that do not know, Louis Rossmann has been fighting big lobby companies for a while focusing on Open Source and user data protection, user/consumer freedom of choice, defending the 'Right to Repair' movement, 'FLOSS', 'FOSS' movement, small and inventive companies and so on.