Cyberpunk will probably make more money on GOG than every other game on the platform combined

Who cares !

We don't even know how the game will turn out and i don't make assumptions about the quality before i know how good/not good it is which it seems to me that this thread is about, please tell me if i'm wrong here.

However i will say there's a few games that deserve higher sales than they got though.

It's sad because it's just one game, while there's countless amazing games on GOG that will remain unknown. It's sad because because modern mass marketing actually works and countless more people will buy Cyberpunk simply because of hype and keanu reeves.

Not any different than lootboxes generate higher revenue than the games sales and the acceptance of drm, yes i don't like these trends in gaming but it is what it is and most people will never care even though their behavior might fire right back at them some day.

If you buy on hype and pre order then don't complain if you get burned, if you're fine with that then go ahead and i don't care anymore because it's useless trying to talk sense in the masses who just buy what they want and never think twice about the future effect it could have because corps go where the money is regardless of pro consumerism.

Bad trends will not go away unfortunately, best you can do is supporting the least terrible ones, hype and pre orders in the grand scheme of things isn't all that bad and it hurts those that gets carried away by it.

More sad are the millions of people stuck playing one or two games like Fortnite, PUBG or Rust for years, getting excited about a new skin texture, instead of trying something new and different.

If I had access to so many games when I was a kid, all those summers where I had no idea what to do with myself... oh man, there are so many great games out there, so many stories and characters waiting to be discovered, everything at the tip of the finger.

Yeah the huge amount of people on Steam who only have a few F2P games on their account (usually TF2, CSGO and Dota2) is pretty sad. Just imagine playing the same maps over and over again every day for the rest of time, truly hellish.

Are we supposed to be sad for the fact that CDPR produces games on their own that are so popular that the rest of their store full of great games gets blown out of the water?

I bet they cry all the way to the bank.

It's not sad, it's good for GOG. The CDPR games are what keeping GOG afloat.

Now, if CP2077 bombed, we may have to worry about the medium term prospect of this store.

Sad people are people like you who think what's best for others people completely disregarding their own preferences. If they want to play Fortnite / PUBG more power to them. They're the ones playing not you. They don't judge you.

Pretty sure that sounds pretty sad to some people, if the DRM-Free store, after a decade of promoting itself can't hold it's own without CDP's IP keeping it profitable. Wut? I loved playing 2forts in TF2, barely ever played anything else. Same with Facing Worlds in UT. Not being able to easily stick to 1 map is one of the downsides of the recent BF games imo, I'm so sick of rotating servers.

You say that like it was a bad thing?

Wouldn't it be merely positive that Cyberpunk would sell EVEN BETTER on GOG than all the other GOG games combined?!?

This is absolutely true, most if not all of my pre-order and hype purchases were absolute concious decisions where I've asked myself several times if its really a sensible purchase even if I only spend like 4 bucks. So if I bought something that I may not like it for very cheap, and it turned out to be a bad game, then that simply was money not well spent. However, even if 98% of the time I was happy by my concious pre order decision, yet for the 2% I only had myself to blame. People should always take personal responsibility first. I have a vague feeling that "internet entitlement" in general stems from the feeling that personal responsibility somehow fully ceased to exists at some point. This is also why a lot of people online cling to famous internet people and simply because having no responsibility means you have to blame some other tribe for any sort of mistake. I might be wrong with this however but social media does amplify this sort of behavioral patters quite accurately.

More then often however, my own concious decision to go against what the famous Youtubers or Twitchstreamers say was fruitful. Sometimes even some overpriced "terrible" game turned out to be something I've kept played for 50+ hours.

This doesn't mean that "going with the crowd" is something bad, more power to them. But this approach of following the largest voice, more than often, is not for everybody at all. I'm with you as well. I don't like stuff like social media for instance but if people kept drawn in regarding these sites I don't object. Living a life is a process of learning. It took years for me to understand what social media does to people and how evil it actually is. This doesn't mean that those who use these sites are evil however. I'd rather dive in deep and blame the very core of the issue rather than innocent people. The same thing applies to Lootboxes (blame the companies who force devs to implement them) and pre-orders (blame the companies who put those pre-orders up too early). However, if someone enjoys partaking in those activities I feel that such a thing is 100% fine.

So what? As long as they have fun. It's great to have the huge variety of games nowadays, but in the end it only matters if people have fun playing them. And on the other, hand, having too many options to choose from can become a nuisance, for example when trying to keep up with certain release cycles or if some games are only played because some people on the internet say it is great and has to be played. I've certainly been there... anyway, it's great to try something new, but sticking to one or a couple of things that are just fun (or revisiting a game not played in years), is just as well.

Also, anything that increases the popularity (and profit) of GOG (or DRM free gaming in general) is a good thing.

I agree with that but I am hopeful Cyberpunk will be another masterpiece in the vein of The Witcher games (er, I'm not counting the adventure game/Thronebreaker ;)). So at least it will be more worthy of the praise than "insert AAA slop from EA here". That said, I totally know what you mean because I am constantly having discussions like this. Methodology matters. It is better for people to reach a conclusion for the right reasons, than to stumble upon it for the wrong reasons. Put another way, life is not just "ends justify the means"...the "means" matter.

To add on, if Cyberpunk raises awareness of GOG as a store, maybe more people will be receptive to DRM-free gaming and eventually come to better methodology...