soosgjr: In an attempt to outdo its "My Rewards" nonsense, CDPR now locks some exclusive Cyberpunk content behind
Twitch drops.
While I'm not a fan of Twitch Drops, they're not even the main problem.
It's the distribution method once the drops have been unlocked. The fact that we have to link GOG accounts to Twitch, rather than anything else, literally allows CDP to generate offline installers / activators of these Twitch Drops for GOG users and place them in the DLC section. They are intentionally keeping it tied to Galaxy authentication though. That is so PRO-DRM of them.
The subscription gifting rifle is not even a drop that activates via linked accounts. We get a serial key. Can we redeem that code on GOG? No, we have to redeem it on Cyberpunk's website. Do we get an offline installer / activator for that rifle at least? Of course not. Need to launch the game via Galaxy for that.
Time4Tea: How do these 'twitch drops' work? I'm not really familiar with them. Someone drops a code on Twitch and there's something built into the game that requires an external account verification to redeem for some in-game items?
There are two methods.
The first and most common one is that you find a participating stream, they are easy to find, Twitch itself often tells you which stream is valid for which loot, start the stream
(set the quality to 160p, mute it, switch to another tab and go back to doing whatever else you were doing), you then have to watch
(or ignore) that stream for some time, usually 2 hours, while building up a progress bar for that loot. Once the progress is reached, you have to go back to the drop page and manually click claim. If you don't click claim, you won't get it. Certain drops are set for different days too. For example, currently you can only get get the pants and the helmet. Chest and boots will start later.
The second method, as I described above already, is the gifting method. You find a stream, select "Subscribe > Gift a Sub > Custom Quantity > 2 > Pay. Then you get a serial key to redeem. This second method must be much newer and rather incomplete. Honestly if they were selling that rifle for $7 as an MTX DLC, I would find that less egregious than paying some random streamer.
wolfsite: Prime Gaming has a promo code for Cyberpunk 2077 for a Chesapeake SMG weapon so you need a Prime Gaming account for the code.
Great, there are now so many DRM Rewards that they need a scroll bar.