A few points here:
1 After the hype and failure of 2077 at launch, I'm shocked you'd pre-order this.
2. Ethical people like Marcin Iwinski, who lied to everyone about the progress of development and over-promised a game on a deadline he was informed would be impossible? Ethical people like him? There is nothing ethical about the CDP family anymore.

I don't think SargonAelther was suggesting giving up gaming, and neither am I.

I'm not even particularly salty, I'm just lucid about what my options are. There are literally thousands of other games in the GOG catalogue that do not have this issue. I deem it to be important. You don't, particularly, and that's fine. Like in any storefront, there are lots of products competing for my money, and I'm going to choose based on what my preferences are.

No-one has ever been able to bring anyone round to their side of this issue through debate, so I'm not going to try, I will simply wish you many happy gaming sessions.

1. Considering the sheer amount of hours I've sunk into it it clearly cannot be the complete failure it often is portrayed as. Technical problems on consoles don't count, as far as I'm concerned and Cyberpunk 2077 is subjectively lacking in quite a few aspects, true, but that's where Phantom Liberty is coming in and about to improve upon.
If it goes sideways again, which I doubt, I'm one of the first in line to get a refund, believe you me.
2. I'm not familiar enough with the particularities of the drama and controversy in regards to that to be able to make an informed judgment of specific people. All I'm going off about is the delivered product which, for me at least and others as well, maybe wasn't quite what had been promised but made for a thoroughly enjoyable experience nevertheless.

Again, if all is going to shit or has been going to shit for a while now, why not make the best of it and enjoy it while it lasts.

It's not like I'm only spending my Nuyen on CDPRED or on the few AAA games here on GOG in general, it's the complete opposite from it, actually.
You'll have to excuse that I can't prove it (data protection and the right to privacy are things I'm an advocate of as well) but rest assured that apart from very few exceptions I have purchased and will be purchasing literally everything that is released on GOG.

There's too many stresses in life already to have zero filter over what riles you up. I don't give two craps about pre-order costmetics, so therefore I don't allow myself to get riled up over them having DRM on them. When there is DRM I deem over the line, like Hitman 2016, then I care and advocate and make GOG know I feel it is over the line.

To do otherwise is to invite chaos into your brain.

I'm gonna wait a couple of years. I don't get paid to debug their code.

It's just boiling the frog. They include things here and there, and because it doesn't personally bother you, you don't say anything. then it's another small thing. Then, when it is something you care about, your cooperation to that point makes rolling it back nearly impossible. So I'll fight the fight while it's a small fight rather than a big one I was complicit in creating.

Any DRM is over the line for any sensible person. Otherwise there's no sane or rational way to draw said line.

I cancelled my pre order for Cyberpunk, due to all the delays, and lack of promised content. Needless to say, I hvae yet to purchase it.

I saw Phantom Liberty being advertised, and it does look interesting; however, I am not pre ordering.

For offline installers, how is Cyberpunk? Have the fixed all the bugs yet? Has all promised pre relase content been added in with all the recent patches?

I am trying to decide if I purchase Cyberpunk now, or wait, and purchase some other games instead.

Thanks for any insight.

If you get Cyberpunk now, wait until this drops, because there is a base game patch that goes with it and it will change the game for the better, if they don't screw it up. A lot of the systems are getting a major overhaul and the game won't feel the same.

I pre-ordered CP2077, as I'd always wanted to try playing a Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0 TTRPG.
I knew, from the recommended system specs, my then current PC was below spec. I'd hoped I'd be able to do the upgrade within a few months of launch. As I read about how thorough going a disasterpiece CP2077 turned out to be, I was glad I didn't have a system capable of even attempting to run the game.
By the time I did have a system capable of running CP2077, November 2022, the game was up to patch v1.61. So all my experiences of CP2077 are from there.

Wise move, in both cases. Squashed all the bugs, yet?
No. Major patch 1.60 was, supposed to have, squashed all the major bugs, except that patch 1.61 had to be created and released to try to crush more pre-existing bugs, and new bugs introduced by patch 1.60. And with the release of Phantom Liberty, will come patch 1.70, I'd be expecting more new bugs from it.

Deliberately nerfed, or outright removed, good stuff that players could seriously make use of?
Absolutely of course.
Removed the DRM on in game content, No.

Offline install works fine. Offline play works fine.
Just that when you play offline, the DRM'd content is unavailable from new game start. Legendary grade armor, and one of the best melee blade weapons. That's definitely not stuff that could, or should, ever be regarded as 'merely cosmetic extras'.

All pre-release promised content been added?
No. The example that I will cite, is the claim of being able to go inside every place in NC. No buildings that are merely an unenterable block on the landscape. No unenterable doors in and on buildings. That entire claim about how explorable NC would be, remains, and I think will remain, never to be fulfilled.
And the claim in my example is merely one example of this. There's multiples of this status still in the game as at patch 1.61.

Existing systems which can currently run the base game, being downgraded in quality, or being rendered being unable to play the game, once Phantom Liberty/patch 1.70 rolls out?
Absolutely of course.
Systems that could only meet the low quality specs for the game, will be below minimum spec.
Systems that could run the game at medium, get reduced to low.
And systens that can currently run the game at high quality get smacked down to medium quality.
My own system was a mix of low and medium recommended specs for the base game. Because some stuff in my system only meets current low spec, I won't be able to play CP2077 at all if I install patch 1.70 or get Phantom Liberty.
So if you want to get CP2077 base game, then get it now and download the installers now, so you don't need a current, bleeding edge spec system, just to be able to run the game at high quality, after patch 1.70/Phantom Liberty is released.

Even if my system could run Phantom Liberty, would I pre-order Phantom Liberty?
No. While the DRM'd content in CP2077 can be restored with mods, that enable the content, despite it supposedly being only being accessible via Galaxy. What's the betting that the DRM'd content in Phantom Liberty will also be accessible via mods. So with there being, currently, no need to fear FOMO of pre-release DRM'd pre-order only content, why waste money on a pre-order? Save money and wait till the base game, and the DLC are on a really deep discount.

Trailer is looking very nice! Wondering if this DLC will unlock another possible ending upon completion. Though I get that the current endings are on par for the dystopian future, I sort of wanted at least one somewhat happy ending. No matter what V just gets the shaft. At least Johnny has an ending that he's essentially given another lease on life. Looking forward to this and will probably have to re-complete the game again. Haven't played iin couple of years now.

V gets 1 possible hopefool end with The Star Ending, with the Aldecaldos, but it's no certainty for being a long life, a happy one, or a pain free one.
The only other real unknown ending is The Sun Ending. We get no idea just how that klep run plays out.
The other endings... One very definitely dead, and the other is a short life of serious pain.
But yeah, in the base game, what V very definitely does not get is any Golden Ending where things properly work out for V.

Keanu Reeves, though.... HE gets to have TWO Golden Endings.
One is going with the AI of his gf, Alt. The other is by taking over V's body and getting another chance at life.

Really shows the player what the true score is. Only the money making Names get to have the Good Endings. Ordinary city folks like V, best they can hope for is to die quick and with minimal pain, on their own terms. Except that for V, well.... V doesn't even get that little.

Yeah I felt kind bad as i was replaying each ending. Having Johnny being the only one of the two to get anything remotely good always rubbed me the wrong way. Especially so because Johnny's chip is what was killing V anyway. Sort of salt to the wounds.

One reason that I'm getting hopeful with this expansion is because there is a hook for V being cured of his condition. Whether that actually happens or another ploy with no payout, remains to be seen.

I am not interested in Linux. And why not? Well, is Steam not supporting DRM with his launcher? Isn't Steam too much of a very big biznes to fail? It is not better to support much smaller "addresses" like GOG, which are even DRM-free.

PS: User Sargon, with almost 3.000 Games in his GOG-depo, is more than a GOG-patriot! A new word is needed for the biznes relationship between him and GOG...