WTF Guys, we are 10/12 08am and when i want to launch the game i have a screen :
It's not until 10th december !
Oh wait..

Yeah, I didn't imagine anyone would empathize with my weird hangups. Anyway, thanks. I'll have to give it a miss unless I become less prudish about mainstream games.

Unfortunately though they still did not manage to include the final patch (1.32) into the game as well ... years later.

I think it just added support for Simplified Chinese or something like that.

Are you implying that patch is less important and can be therefore neglected? Because your words suggest you imply exactly that :/

Willfully misunderstanding people is quite an art, no?

Wow, what did I just read??

I'm sorry that I didn't speak anything earlier, but I wasn't interested in Cyberpunk so I left this thread for later. Now that I did read it... I feel like throwing up.

I'm appalled at the depths Gog and CDPR are sinking to entice people to use their stupid "optional"-but-everyday-less-so client. I'm not even talking about them restricting preloading to Galaxy. Despite that being a dick move, anyone in this day and age should know not to preorder a game.

But gating content behind an online check, Gog? Seriously? Despite you having done it right in older times, for example like in The Witcher 3 where the extras are free DLC?

You've been trying your best to make yourself irrelevant when compared to Steam, but this... this is in a whole other level. You and your sister CDPR are not only embracing whatever DRM you can get away with, now you're the ones actually deciding to put it in as a way to promote your damn client.

"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster."
It's sad that Gog started as the champion of DRM-Free and now it's just another monster. Almost a Steam clone, but one that will never be better at being Steam than Steam themselves. So one that is irrelevant now that their last unique selling point (the DRM-Free pillar) fell. I guess I have no reason to buy any other game here and instead I should invest in storage to back up my offline installers while I can.

Well, at least I have games enough to last me a lifetime. But if it wasn't for that I'd be opening pirateBay in a new tab right now.

Great post and I very much sympathize. Btw, Zoom Platform, whilst small, has a surprising number of good games DRM-free and seems to be worth supporting as a fallback, given GOG's continuing slide over the DRM precipice. It also has some games that GOG doesn't, including the Duke Nukem games and AvP Gold.

A client is not that bad............. as long as it stays optional .... like i mentioned before.... i joined GOG before joining Steam, i read about the existence of Steam and Gamersgate in the GOG forums, thats why i tried both after i noticed they had lots of HOG and casualgames.

I also knew Steam had a client, also read many posts on that so it was obvious a client had to be used.

Anyway , GOG always said optional client, that is why i don't use it .... also hope it allways will stay optional, cause having to use clients is easy, everyone uses one , and also 99.90% has DRM, Gog is one of the very few who are DRM free and have an OPTIONAL client.

Good thing is i also have a huge backlog of DRM free games still to play , have to become 150 or more if i want to play every game once :D ( also have >400 drm free casual games)....


True... but GOG has prepaid paysafe , Steam also has prepaid Paysave .... gamersgate used to have it but it is gone now ....

Thanks for the heads-up. I think I checked it out a while ago and did not find too much stuff I would like, but now I think I should look at it again with more attention.
And Zoom might be small now but I think they're going to see a sudden influx of people fed up with Gog's latest crap. I'm not sure they could ever reach Gog's size (from when Gog was the store we wanted to support), but they still might secure a decent release now and again after said growth.

They take credit card and Paypal. Good enough for me. I always just use a credit card on GOG anyway, never had any issues.

You should also know this:

Donwload/install on Galaxy: 60GB
Donwload/install for offline files: 104GB

It's as lazy packaging and anti-user-friendly as it can get. You actually get better (and smaller) options via certain "repackers" as they compress the files more and at least split out languages/localizations and extra files.

It's just another little way of trying to push users towards Galaxy & punishing non-Galaxy users, along with there being no pre-load for non-Galaxy users even though there's no technical reason why they couldn't do so & they've done so for their previous games (FU for not using Galaxy; good luck downloading such a huge installer at launch while the servers are hammered and download speeds are at a crawl!) and the "bonus" content requiring online activation via Galaxy.

Properties on the game folder shows 59.6, and offline files with 25 files at 4GB + 1 at 3.5GB + setup 1MB (27 files in total).

I used Galaxy to pre-load and to test if I could play without Galaxy once installed and then download the offline files at first, but at 104GB I'm going to wait a long time before downloading these (if ever), especially since the game needs lots of patching up, like W3 needed.

EDIT: It seem to run without Galaxy, but I'm going to remove it (finally) and move the game folder and see what happens...
EDIT2: Yes, it runs like Withcer 3 - portable. And I'll worry about updates later. :)