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Posted August 29, 2017
Make your collection even more legendary.

The GWENT Starter Pack is now available on GOG.com.
This is a limited, one-time only offer and a great way to reinforce your card collection with additional units, spells, and heroes, including a guaranteed Legendary card! Whether you’re new to The Witcher Card Game or a seasoned player, you’ll get a total of 51 cards of various rarity, plus crafting resources for creating premium animated versions of cards.

Once you purchase the GWENT Starter Pack, the items included in it will automatically be added to your account and become available the next time you log in to GWENT.
Post edited August 29, 2017 by litek
Posted August 29, 2017
What's particularly fun, is that the tabletop games industry, where the terrible concept of "seal packs" and whatnot started, is moving *away* from the nonsense... Finding that they get better player engagement and uptake at the "base set and regularly-released complete, even if small, expansion packs". (Example: the "living card games" from Fantasy Flight games)... Which is akin to what video games have been, until this DRM+microtransaction nonsense flipped it.
Posted August 29, 2017
Why is everyone throwing a fit?
Posted August 29, 2017
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MBIIdollabill: Why is everyone throwing a fit?
Because this is DRM and F2P product on a consumer-positive, anti-DRM storefront populated by a community that has been built and cultivated over time for these traits. The product, simply put, should not be on GOG in any way.
Posted August 29, 2017
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The only people underestimating the willingness of the average gamer to drop money on products that are targeted at people who can't help themselves, are the people who can't help themselves.
Posted August 29, 2017
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MBIIdollabill: Why is everyone throwing a fit?
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mqstout: Because this is DRM and F2P product on a consumer-positive, anti-DRM storefront populated by a community that has been built and cultivated over time for these traits. The product, simply put, should not be on GOG in any way.
Well.. we don't really know who is using gOg in general, only those who are vocal here in the forum.... and granted if we where the only, or even the core, consumers of gOg, there is not very many of them...

So gOg S community is also those who ar on Twitter, Facebbok, Steam groups ext, who may not have the same "consumer positive" standards as you do (whatever that may mean... Steam or Blizzard are arguable very consumer friendly...)
Posted August 30, 2017
Sooner or later they all "fall into the same trap":

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/PoeticStanziel/Vol-1-Greed-is-good.pdf

That's how real businessmen think, money, money and more secure way to make money, is it wrong? Not per se, is it despicable? Depends on how you see it... I think it is in specific cases where the seller promote themselves as not willing to do it.
Posted August 30, 2017
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Ghorpm: I sense >10 pages of intense arguing...
I sense 10 pages of Meh....
Posted August 30, 2017
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Bye GOG. I doubt I'll be buying anything new from you in the future. You got thousands of my dollars already (as attested by my 1200+ games that I own on here.) You want to be Steam now, but guess what? Steam already exists and can out-Steam you everyday. So I'd much rather just go back to Steam (which I actually already have done over the last few months). I hate Steam, but I can no longer see in you GOG what I saw when I first became a big fan of yours and decided to ditch Steam very willingly to become an avid GOGer. There is no point in that anymore, you have lost your ideals and therefore lost your identity. At least Steam knows what it is. I can still hate it and use it because its the best at what it is.

This is very sad day for me to finally admit this out loud and publically. I'm crying inside because of it. I thought the DRM-Free Revolution which you started would change the industry, instead the industry has changed you. Because it was always supposed to be about more than just DRM-free. It was about respecting gamers. If you have micro-transactions, you don't respect gamers. You see them as dollar signs and nothing more. Some of the newer GOGers around here won't see a problem with what you are doing, and they'll vehemently defend your rights to be a hyper-capitalistic business. I vehemently disagree with those type of people and think the only reason to allow a business to exist is if it serves some form of good. GOG, you used to stand for a form of good. That is gone, and so now I am too.

Farewell everyone. I'll cheerish the times we had together hanging out for all hours of the nights in insomniac sale threads and just trying to make this place the best it could be.
Posted August 30, 2017
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vulchor:
Can't upvote this due to the use of Steam part. The rest of it though, taken in general and not just about today's matter... yeah.
Posted August 30, 2017
I can't believe that with the release of this card pack they also added DRM to every game released and to release wtf I hate gog now where's your ideals
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cerebropodrido: I can't believe that with the release of this card pack they also added DRM to every game released and to release wtf I hate gog now where's your ideals
???WTF???
Posted August 30, 2017
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Cavalary: Can't upvote this due to the use of Steam part. The rest of it though, taken in general and not just about today's matter... yeah.
What's the alternative? I hate Steam, its the worst, but its honest with what it is. I'm not going to go back to pirating. I'm not going to play console games.

But I understand what you mean. I really really really hoped this day would never come. Maybe I'll give up Steam too and just stop buying new games altogether, I have enough. There's no soul left in this industry.
Posted August 30, 2017
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Also, I think its funny how GOG has disabled comments and ratings for GWENT and this BS Starter Pack. That's very telling, GOG. You can use the excuse that its Beta, but that's garbage. The In-Dev games get comments. You know what you're doing and how it rankles your core audience.
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vulchor: What's the alternative? I hate Steam, its the worst, but its honest with what it is. I'm not going to go back to pirating. I'm not going to play console games.

But I understand what you mean. I really really really hoped this day would never come. Maybe I'll give up Steam too and just stop buying new games altogether, I have enough. There's no soul left in this industry.
I'd probably give up new games altogether. I gave up pirating when GOG came around^. I have enough existing games here to last a long time. And, as it is, I'm used to doing without. At least half of the games I'm interested in never get DRM-free releases.

*points at Paradox for screwing up Cities: Skylines*


^: I only ever bought two DRMed games, Mount & Blade -- which I bought early in development before DRM was added to it, and the MMO Guild Wars (which would be entirely a better product offline with mods and LAN play). There were a few others that had DRM added in later I got refunds for (Cities XL, being one), or that their physical boxes didn't declare it [even back when physical boxes were a thing; also refunded].
Post edited August 30, 2017 by mqstout
Posted August 30, 2017
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vulchor: Also, I think its funny how GOG has disabled comments and ratings for GWENT and this BS Starter Pack. That's very telling, GOG. You can use the excuse that its Beta, but that's garbage. The In-Dev games get comments. You know what you're doing and how it rankles your core audience.
While I understand your point, I cant apply it to a free to play game.
I mean, its free, and not an obligation.
I cant see any other kind of business going for a ftp card game.. not the biggest fan to be honest, it shares the problems that I see in hearhstone.

For true free and no microtransactions gwent you have the witcher 3 gwent.

As for the rest, I think it´s a good thing that steam gets finally some competition.
As long as the games keep being drm free...

Change is unavoidable sadly...
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