Will look it up, thanks :)

GOOD JOB GOG, REALLY A GOOD ONE. Except that it isn't, not by a long shot.

First a bunch of us found issues with the galaxy and online requirement for no no man sky locked content, and now you, YOU do this?

Locking content behind login requirement, online AND galaxy? Drm- free policy my arse.

Imagine pre-ordering the game to support both gog and cdpr, genuinely trusting their drm-free policy, only to receive the moral middle finger as a "reward" coupled with locked access from pre-order items.

I'm glad I didn't pre-order this.

I preordered on December 1, I still haven't received any confirmation email or link to download the game, I paid with paypal and the transaction finished successfully

This one.

I'm getting a strong Bernie Sanders vibe here..lol
But yeah, make goodies available to your offline installer users too, please be fair.

Btw Windows task manager isn't exactly the most accurate tool for network congestion and load / speed monitoring...

Probably not because of the possibility of game files crawling and disection (potentially leading to prerelease content leaks, tho that could be done with digital Galaxy preload too so I don't see it any different imo).
To avoid that they would have to make offline-installer-preload files encrypted which would then in turn require releasing decrypting tool on day 1.
But then again, it wouldn't really change anything compared to Galaxy preload so I dunno, this is just bogus.

(Unless support makes some magic exception) You cannot preload a product for which you have no license attached to your GOG account (ergo: you cannot do that until you activate the product key on GOG).

Open a portal to future when the patch (the ACTUAL day 1 patch, NOT the "day 1 -2" patch) will already be distributed from the servers then :P

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if M$ would suddenly enable support of DX12 on Win 7 then that would undermine huge chunk of their Win 10 marketing (they specificly had marketing involving "only Win 10 will support DX12" message).

Simply put, when you get achievements-enabled game on GOG you get achievements only on GOG. There is just no way you could get them unlocked on Steam at the same time even if you would own a copy on Steam (which you don't seem to, so it's especially not possible).

Cosidering the speed of my internet, every single day /s (well it's not "DIAL-UP-bad" but it's close)

NMS flashbacks intensify

You made me chuckle :P

The worst part is that with this simple trick GOG will force A LOT of users into Galaxy. And I'm sure you know where this is going next (ergo my comment about walled in Garden from another thread).

Very likely "appealing to political 'correctness' involved people".

Funnily enough, this is almost like Metro Exodus case.

May I ask more info about the metro exodus case?

Oh nice, I didnt know we could pre load:) thanks for the heads up guys

I meant the original release, NOT the delayed GOG one.
Originally Metro Exodus was explicitly advertised as Steam release. There were preorder pages on Steam live up until very close to release when at that point the whole case turned into sh*t.
Suddenly Metro Exodus was deemed EGS one-year-exclusive (EGS just bribed/bought rights to exclusivity).
Preorder on Steam was available for some time.
Physical box releases got changed from Steam keys to EGS - and not just in any way - there were LITERALLY EGS logo STICKERS sticked on top of already printed Steam logo boxes.
The whole case turned into HUGE industry controversy.
It was also THE FIRST case of EGS exclusivity buying.
One could say it cost 4A Games A LOT in lost sales due to a PR NIGHTMARE.
That's a TLDR. I can maybe fetch you some links later.

I meant is as "almost the same" as in A HUGE LIE.

Glad, I didn't pre-order and now for sure I am not buying it as any DRM game. I will wait till it is free like Epic Thursday games or they remove the DRM.

Its sad to see a business not understanding what is its customer base and assuming anyone would choose Gog over Steam or Epic store beside offline installers and DRM-free

Now to go back in silence and watch Gog continue destroying itself while making sure I have a good backup of my games offline installers.

Ahhhh I thought about some locked content behind pre-order no longer possible or online only stuff, I see (this actually happened with shenmue III, we are locked out of pre-order only content, including two skills among less useful items).

Yeah I know already about all that crap.

There is an extraordinary amount of Bink video files in this game. A lot of them look to be textures placed on surfaces or sprites like smoke and fire. Some of the screenshots I got are too large to attach, apparently. :(

Very upset of no offline installer preload ?
Here is the solution: You can refund the game.
In their help

The said:

"Pre-orders
You can apply to refund your pre-order at any time, without stating a reason, until the game is officially released. Afterwards, it is covered for 30 days by our voluntary Refund Policy, as described above."


Just don't forget to input correct order number (Cause it's not mandatory ;)) very good joke from GOG)


So before 10th of December you refund without any problem.
and give them the lesson not to force and separete people to install galaxy client.

because you are nought but a shriveled up virtual teat.

Arse technica hires peados.
and pcgaymers latest antics were libeling some warhammer youtuber for promotingt a new game with sexy characters.

This is DRM in a single player game.
Next step->no offline installers
Next step for me->buy on steam

This time I will just ignore cyberpunk 2077.
Next time I will ignore gog.