yo no se.

Steam provides a valuable service to consumers that gog has thus far been unable to meet, until said service is met, it's not unreasonable for gog to provide steam keys when able.

Valuable service like DRM'ing you up the ass. And if you lose your internet and your steam closes incorrectly, cutting you off from the games you bought. GOG is a competing service. Please introduce me to you fucking drug dealer.

Then with all due respect, ask GOG respectively their SUPPORT as we users are all but sheeps, relying on hearsay and NO answer we could give would be valid enough for you. Ever.

+1

I didn't ask for users to make up an answer, I asked for the answer. If the answer isn't available then it's not available. But instead I was met with flames and childish remarks attempting to derail my thread. Contacting support when the information isn't officially available would be a moot point.

Boo fucking hoo.

If you're so mistrusting the info and evidence provided to you here on the forum, why don't you contact support yourself instead?
Or do you consider only blue text posts as "official"?


EDIT: I give up. ;-P

Wait, what ?

Edit : at the very least you can't compare both on every aspect at once. You can compare one aspect at a time, but you can't argue that gog service is strictly inferior to steam. That may really be your honest opinion, it doesn't allow you to spout such nonsense without being contradicted on a general level.

Wait, what again ?
Sir, you definitely are a conundrum wrapped in a rude mystery.

And : this isn't your thread, it's been years that threads on gog are born free and equal.

(edit : If threads were property, TinyPoacher the infamous derailer would have been hanged in a week :)

Why on earth would I purchase something on gog.com if I thought that Steam provided a better service in every category? Steam provides one important difference that gog has thus far been unable to provide: automatic updates. I purchase from gog when possible, however automatic updates are still important and useful - you can disagree, but I don't see why anyone would think such nonsense.

Exactly, this is your opinion, you can share it all you want. People will or won't care, and they won't dispute you that right.

But if you begin to bear judgments like "Steam provides a valuable service to consumers that gog has thus far been unable to meet" as if it was a fact, I will tell you otherwise.
Opinion as fact : you can do better than that.

Go ask your questions on steam forums or CDPR's if our lights doesn't meet your truths.
In fact, here's the best answer to your problems ^

Some people play on multiple platforms and stick with the biggest one until the smaller one gains enough traction/features to pull ahead. What you're suggesting is that people who use steam should continue to use steam because they're already locked into the system and should be given no incentive to break out from it. Steam allows publishers/developers an unlimited amount of keys because they know they can easily compete by offering services no one else is offering - and gog, by not giving out steam keys when possible, is simply telling existing steam customers to stick with the old stuff, because the new stuff (ie. GOG) isn't backwards compatible towards other services. While (ironically) Witcher games you buy on Steam can easily be redeemed on gog - so why would you give gog your money? The answer is their DRM policy - which is great, it's why I stick around, but that doesn't mean I'll blindly drum my head against the f'kin bucket whenever anyone raises a finger to point out its flaws (irregardless of whether they're attempting to fix them or not).

You don't decide how many platforms I deserve to have my game on, just as you don't get to decide how many times I should be allowed to install my games, nor on how many computers I can use it on. You can easily solve key-selling by linking two accounts together, and plenty of developers and publishers (and especially humble bundle) provide their games on multiple services (which again, Valve offers for FREE) - so it's certainly not unreasonable by any streach of the imagination.

And I've already replied as to why contacting support is pointless. Then again, as is apparently poking into this forum, which seems to purely breed uninformed toxic and/or nonsensical replies.

The smaller one NEVER gains enough traction / features to pull ahead, as long as the majority sticks with the biggest one - flaw in your logic.

No, I don't. If you're not happy with GOG / it's features / whatever and think of Steam as so much better, then yes, stick with Steam. There are reasons to consider GOG as better / equal / worse but still a viable option, but I won't tell you how you should feel / think about GOG, Steam or any other platform.
However you now need to tell me where's the incentive to break away from it by handling out free Steam keys....

Ironically you failed to mention the "backward compatibility" of Steam. Or Origin. Uplay. Battlenet. Or any other major player.

This applies to the Witcher 1 and 2. There is NO word (official or not) that this will or might come with the Witcher 3. Fact.
It also wasn't available from release on nor was it communicated at or before release - reason is simple: why buy on GOG when buying on Steam gives me a Steam- AND GOG-version? Fact.
Assuming that it will be the same for the Witcher 3, is just that - an assumption. Fact.
Demanding that it should be handled the same way, only this time from release day on, is beyond unreasonable and flat out stupid. Opinion.

Now please tell me of ANY other example of major players (which neither Humble or any other bundle seller is) that offered that.

No I don't and that never was my intention.

There is no other official answer. There is no other official way.
Which part of it you didn't understood?