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[Lilliput McHammersmith]

/fronzel/ was right again!

Come Cyberpunk 2077, we'll all gonna get a big fat DRM dildo shoved up our collective ass. Mark my words.

I've been wondering how they will weasel their way out of their assurances that they will always have offline installers. So, here's how I think it's going to work: You can download the game from your browser, but you'll need to have a Cyberpunk profile to play/save your game etc (or, if you're already a user, you'll get logged in via your Galaxy/gog profile). Conveniently, non-gog customers who open a profile via Cyberpunk would automatically create a corresponding Galaxy/gog profile, which would boost the numbers of active gog users. All the while gog could still claim: "Whaddya want? It's sill DRM-free! It still has offline installers!"

Something like that is coming. You wait and see!

The moment of truth is here, folks!
https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/goodies#how-it-works

After installing the game, log in to REDlauncher using your GOG account. For GWENT rewards, make sure to use the same GOG account you use to play GWENT on PC or mobile.

Just like I imagined: All U console peasants and Steamtards are getting gog accounts! No way out now!!! No more escaping Marcin Iwinski's clutches!!!

Welp, it finally happened! Gog has given birth to the monster it tried to fight. At least from the looks of it they were nice enough to lube up the DRM dildo by locking only cosmetic shit behind the launcher rather than crucial features.

You could always not buy it

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

You could always not buy it

Thank you for pointing that out, Captain Obvious!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Didn't they do the same with Witcher 3?

 

[Bad Sector]

/fronzel/ was right again! [..] At least from the looks of it they were nice enough to lube up the DRM dildo by locking only cosmetic shit behind the launcher rather than crucial features.

The entire point of a game being DRM-free is that there isn't DRM to block you from playing the game and control where, when and how you play the game. While having some hats behind a login screen is disappointing, it doesn't make the game itself have DRM.

As long as i can download the game, put it on my external HDD and play it in another computer without the need to do any form of authentication, the game is DRM-free. This isn't some nebulous and vague definition, a game either has DRM (which would block such use) or it doesn't. There isn't middle ground.

 

[DalekFlay]

Bonus cosmetics or cheat items for making an account or buying a Mountain Dew or whatever the fuck else are not DRM, no matter how much the militant want to insist they are.

 

[Bad Sector]

Bonus cosmetics or cheat items for making an account or buying a Mountain Dew or whatever the fuck else are not DRM, no matter how much the militant want to insist they are.

I agree. However, to be clear, they are not DRM for the game but they are DRM'd items themselves even if they are unimportant fluff - unlike functionality that has some reason (if weak) to require GOG Galaxy (which is why some multiplayer parts of games are only available through the GOG Galaxy version), there isn't really a technical reason for those items to be locked behind a GOG account. Which is why i wrote it is disappointing.

However strictly speaking that doesn't make the game itself have DRM nor GOG having games with DRM.

In any case, i do hope they'll be released as offline installers down the line after their purpose to entice new users install GOG Galaxy is done.

 

[DalekFlay]

I agree. However, to be clear, they are not DRM for the game but they are DRM'd items themselves even if they are unimportant fluff - unlike functionality that has some reason (if weak) to require GOG Galaxy (which is why some multiplayer parts of games are only available through the GOG Galaxy version), there isn't really a technical reason for those items to be locked behind a GOG account. Which is why i wrote it is disappointing.

I guess it's a solid point the costumes or whatever have DRM. Though maybe once you download them initially you can back them up and use them forever, we don't know. Signing in once to get content is something you obviously do on GOG already. I guess I just don't care enough about cosmetics to think about it really. It's like the Mankind Divided cheat items being limited use, I didn't care because I... well, didn't care. It is a bad sign about how far they're willing to go to push Galaxy though, granted.

 

[Semiurge]

In any case, i do hope they'll be released as offline installers down the line after their purpose to entice new users install GOG Galaxy is done.

Or bundled in the inevitable GOTY. The non-multiplayer related stuff, that is.

 

[ADL]

https://af.gog.com/game/rebel_galaxy_outlaw?as=1649904300

 

[Azalin]

Winter Sale is on and Prison Architect is free for the next 72 hours

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Also Prison Architect: Cleared for Transfer https://af.gog.com/game/prison_architect_cleared_for_transfer?as=1649904300

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

If anybody is thinking about getting Wolfenstein II, make sure to check out the price! In my region buying the base game (60% off) & season pass (70% off) separately is considerably cheaper (the difference amounts to €4.51 here) than buying the Digital Deluxe Edition bundle (60% off).

 

[Infinitron]

New stuff:

https://af.gog.com/game/the_walking_dead_the_telltale_definitive_series?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/game/ancestors_the_humankind_odyssey?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/game/wolfenstein_ii_the_new_colossus?as=1649904300

 

[ADL]

Big ol' haul, shame Devotion could've been one of them.

 

[Abu Antar]

I got Stellar Tactics. There's not really anything else that I want... for now.

 

[Catacombs]

Big ol' haul, shame Devotion could've been one of them.

That is quite the haul, sir.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Big ol' haul, shame Devotion could've been one of them.

Project Wingman any good?

 

[Azalin]

If anybody is thinking about getting Wolfenstein II, make sure to check out the price! In my region buying the base game (60% off) & season pass (70% off) separately is considerably cheaper (the difference amounts to €4.51 here) than buying the Digital Deluxe Edition bundle (60% off).

Interesting, I see the base prices are weird too, the main game costs 30,the season pass 25 while the deluxe edition that has both costs 60,5 more that the other two together lol.I see they have the same fucked up prices on Steam too

WTF Bethesda?

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

Bruh, about half the stuff isn't even on sale at the moment (including some older games like Cuphead and Terminator: Resistance that really ought to be 50+% off, but aren't).
Why would you wait for a winter sale and then buy stuff that isn't even discounted?

 

[DalekFlay]

FYI, Wolfenstein 2 has a whacked out retarded storyline but it's mostly kept to cutscenes between missions now, and the gunplay is pretty damn good. The DLCs are mostly crap but the "Agent Silent Death" one is kinda neat because of stealth focus and more unique mission locations. The other two feel like retreads of the base game.

I'll re-buy it on GOG someday but not for $24.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Wolfenstein sale was a bit back. Grabbed it all for damn cheap. Except II.. dunno how i missed that.

 

[Wunderbar]

FYI, Wolfenstein 2 has a whacked out retarded storyline but it's mostly kept to cutscenes between missions now, and the gunplay is pretty damn good.

gunplay is the only thing this game has going for it, because the level design/encounter design/enemy variety are on the same atrocious level as the story.

 

[DalekFlay]

gunplay is the only thing this game has going for it, because the level design/encounter design/enemy variety are on the same atrocious level as the story.

I don't really disagree, all those take steps back from the "first" one and Old Blood. I wouldn't say horrible, but definitely mediocre. Story is horrible. Gunplay is great. What sale price that balances out to I leave up to the reader.

 

[ADL]

Say what you will about Wolfenstein TNC but I did like the

Spoiler

decapitation+head transplant stuff

 

[Bad Sector]

Me too, though it took *way* too long to reach that point.

In other news, Terminator: Resistance is finally having a sale on GOG at -40%. After CP2077 (which i'm still playing) i wasn't planning on spending any money on games this month but i decided to buy it anyway since AFAIK it went on sale only once on GOG a year ago and i'd like to play it some time soon.