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This is my first GoG game, lets hope so! I wouldnt mind to switch here from Steam and the rest but we will see.
Post edited December 07, 2020 by Cyberway
The vast majority of people will buy it on Steam, so I really doubt that version gets any kind of lesser support.
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sanscript: On the top of my head I can at least give you these examples (and there are more of them).
One is a tech company not far from where I live. I don't remember how exactly how they did it now, but basically they get paid like a normal worker, they all pitch in on decisions the company should take, and they get split bonuses from rest-income/shares they own. I don't remember how big they are but they're less 50 at least.
A family member of mine makes games and also get a share of the bonuses the company creates.
CDPR has something similar, workers there are promised at least 10% of the revenue from CP2077 sales (still too low but it's something).
I think it's more common in small sized tech companies. The bigger they get the more greedy the owners also get :)
Well, yeah, paying extra bonuses to workers when the company is doing fine is quite normal. My boss called me last week and told me that I (and apparently others) will get an extra 700€ bonus to my Dec salary as an annual bonus. Last year it was 400€ so I guess we were doing better this year than last year. I don't even recall how that bonus is calculated, somehow related to how much profit the company is making, and it is not relative to your salary like such bonuses normally are in other companies where I've been.

Earlier i worked in a big megacorp (they were in the business of clubbing seal pups and eating babies), and I tended to get bigger bonuses there, e.g. one good year I recall getting several thousand's worth of bonuses. But then some years I didn't get any when the company made loss. A long time ago I also obtained some options and shares from the company as part of my salary, but in the end they weren't worth much when I finally sold them (they started giving them to some workers (group managers etc. that I was at that point) after the biggest growth was past already, only high executives got them before that of course).

Oh and in a bank where I worked in, they offered an option that you can buy the company (bank) shares with part of your salary every month, and there was some incentive to do that too like that you had to pay only half of their price or something like that (ie. it was a much better deal than buying their shares yourself, and you would most probably make some nice profit with the shares due to the lower price).

So in that sense there are normally options to buy company shares and there are bonus options, but buying shares is optional. It is still not the same that every employer automatically becomes the owner of the company that will get part of the profit of the company till the day they die. Sure if they have company shares, they will get dividends if the company decides to pay them for shareholders, but that is normally peanuts compared to monthly salary.
Post edited December 07, 2020 by timppu
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Enebias: I must make this distinction: you don't support the devs, you support the CDP group.
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toxicTom: Actually not true in this case. For the crunch overtime the people affected are promised a cut of the profits. So yes, if you buy CP2077, here or elsewhere, you're directly supporting them.
Well. Gearbox had this for Borderlands 3 and yet in the end Pitchford pocketed everything, so we'll see.
It will also be interesting to see how consistent that cut of the profits will be and how it will be distributed. After more than one year of "death march" (constant status of crunch with no specific goals, just brutal working hours) they deserve the whole damn lot, but being the cinical, skeptical anti-corporate sob I am I really doubt it will be more than crumbs.

I hear a lot of promises, but I'm waiting for the delivery. CDP has already broke every vow, so why not one more? I trust them as much as I trust any other fictitious entity with commercial purposes (read: anything with limited liability and not human, just a legal title).
Post edited December 07, 2020 by Enebias
Yes - It's a good idea to buy on GOG, because they offer you complete installers. You can download them and store them on some local media, and you never have to download again (apart from updates of course), or need an internet connection (or a client) to install and play the game. The game is completely DRM-free and does not depend on cloud based storage and/or client (like your Steam install).

So you really can have all what's needed on you local storage. Try that with Steam or any other on-line store.

And all money on GOG goes directly to the developer/publisher if you buy on GOG. Steam and other on-line stores take a huge part of the price to fill their own pockets, so the developers get less. Mind you - That's just business, but you as costumer can make the choice to avoid that if you want.
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apehater: is it i good idea to pick up the soap in a prison shower?? i dunno, it depends on the exact circumstances, i guess.

but one thing is sure, its NEVAR, really NEVER a good idea to buy any game on gog! here's just a recent example why!

or look at this post here
Please tell us why you are actually here, if you feel the way you do about GOG?

Going by this post and your others you hate them ... though for my money you show no decent rhyme or reason for doing so, so are just making noise.

And I would never bend over in a prison shower if I was you, as there would definitely be those waiting for you specifically to do so, as you seem such a lovely person.

Have a good day/night/year/life .... enjoy prison. :)
Post edited December 07, 2020 by Timboli