Anyone wants to trade Steam version for GOG version?

[Eldanon]

Anyone wants to trade Steam version for GOG version?

Please forgive me if this is a violation of any of the forum rules, if so - please lock and delete.
If it's not a violation of the rules, please don't stone me for condoning the evil DRM...
I'm 99% sure there's no takers but on the off chance - is anyone interested in trading their Steam version of TW3 for a GOG version?
I enjoy the simplicity of having my games library in one place with one friends list.
Thanks!

 

[Martindnewton]

With the hypothetical value of a GOG key being drastically lower than a steam key for various reasons even if it wasn't against the rules i cant imagine many (if anyone) would do it. Your best bet is to try sell it yourself on ebay or a similar site to put towards a steam purchase.

 

[Eldanon]

With the hypothetical value of a GOG key being drastically lower than a steam key for various reasons even if it wasn't against the rules i cant imagine many (if anyone) would do it. Your best bet is to try sell it yourself on ebay or a similar site to put towards a steam purchase.

I realize that it's unlikely to have takers but since it's the same game (with GOG actually having more extras) I'm hoping perhaps there's an anti-DRM person somewhere who got a Steam version of the game as a gift and would prefer to have it on GOG.
It's not enough of an issue for me to make a serious effort since I own TW1 and TW2 on GOG and played those without Steam.

 

[Butcher_of_Cidaris]

Hypothetically, how can trade of that kind be made?

 

[GHOSTMD]

@Eldanon

Well if you really insist to put TW3 at STEAM, why you don t just add your GoG Version after the install?
Just saying... if the reason is to have it in your steam library. I think you wont find a anti DRM/ STEAM / ORIGIN
/ UPLAY person who brought the game on one of those platforms in the first place. Since (lucky for us)
there is still GoG.

 

[Eldanon]

Hypothetically, how can trade of that kind be made?

My thoughts were...
1) Find someone that has the Steam game as a gift they haven't used in their inventory AND also has a high post count here that I could trust.
2) Figure out if I can legally transfer my entire GOG account to another person (I'm willing to re-buy TW1 and TW2 on Steam since they go for $2.50 each fairly often).
3) Give them my account and hope they won't screw me by not giving me the steam game =)

Yes, I realize it's all highly unlikely but I thought I'd take a shot. Not a horrible loss if it doesn't work.

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@Eldanon

Well if you really insist to put TW3 at STEAM, why you don t just add your GoG Version after the install?
Just saying... if the reason is to have it in your steam library. I think you wont find a anti DRM/ STEAM / ORIGIN
/ UPLAY person who brought the game on one of those platforms in the first place. Since (lucky for us)
there is still GoG.

That's what I did with TW2 but it still doesn't track amount of time you've spent with the game (somehow I like that feature and I like that they added it to GOG Galaxy). It also doesn't show my Steam friends list that I'm playing TW3 for ungodly amount of hours which is a shame because it would be potential advertisement and induce others to buy =). I have no Galaxy friends and it's likely to stay that way. Once I'm done with TW3, I doubt that Galaxy will ever be running on my machine.

 

[Butcher_of_Cidaris]

i see..

 

[JasonShepard]

You know you can just launch it from Steam? That way you can access the overlay and talk to friends and shit?
I did that for Dragon Age: Inquisition and plenty of other games.

 

[Eldanon]

You know you can just launch it from Steam? That way you can access the overlay and talk to friends and shit?
I did that for Dragon Age: Inquisition and plenty of other games.

Access it? Yes... will it track hours spent, show your friends what you're playing - no. More importantly, I'd still have to run Galaxy to get updates and I really would love to just have one system running. I'm anal enough about it that I still haven't bought a single EA game since Origin launched because I don't want to deal with multiple store ecosystems. I did let go of my principles for the Witcher because I love the series more than my principles =)

 

[GHOSTMD]

That's what I did with TW2 but it still doesn't track amount of time you've spent with the game (somehow I like that feature and I like that they added it to GOG Galaxy). It also doesn't show my Steam friends list that I'm playing TW3 for ungodly amount of hours which is a shame because it would be potential advertisement and induce others to buy =). I have no Galaxy friends and it's likely to stay that way. Once I'm done with TW3, I doubt that Galaxy will ever be running on my machine.

Ahhh... i see... all the fancy stuff valve cloaks his "service" with, to distract the customer of the fact that they don' t
"own" the games anymore and a other one has control over their legal bought content (even if that "hand" does not
squeeze) *smirk* to use a picture here.

Well you see... HOW important are those features to you? Look TW3 might turn out to be the best RPG for us all.
Does it matter then? Don' t think so... you also might enjoy the fact, that CDPR doesn' t "control" what you do
with the game. Even if the EULA is all the same since others

But ok i might better stop before i get more off topic, as said, its unlikely you will find a user in THIS forum who might
trade a STEAM version for a GOG version... well at last no "anti" STEAM user would do this... since they will not use
STEAM client in the first place at all.

 

[spookypuppy]

Just a heads up, I had Neverwinter Nights 2 platinum on steam, they seem to no longer have the rights to that game so I can't even install it anymore. At least if you have the game on GOG, there won't be any problems with them losing the rights and locking you out of a game that you paid hard earned money for.

 

[BigDRim]

Just a heads up, I had Neverwinter Nights 2 platinum on steam, they seem to no longer have the rights to that game so I can't even install it anymore. At least if you have the game on GOG, there won't be any problems with them losing the rights and locking you out of a game that you paid hard earned money for.

I think the few steam games removed from users' library are multiplayer-only games with shut-down servers.

 

[Eldanon]

@ Ghostmd I concur, highly unlikely... but it's even less likely that I'll find someone on Steam forums that would prefer a GOG version... they're probably on Steam for a reason.
As far as how important Steam features are to me? Not terribly... I wouldn't miss this game for the world so if I have to play my third Witcher without steam like I did the first two, I will.
As far as Valve and their evilness... *shrug*. I have nothing but extremely positive things to say about Valve and Steam (I guess I am a bit miffed at the deafening silence about HL3 but other than that - love it).

 

[triggerhippy24]

I just add the games I purchased elsewhere to Steam and make sure the overlay is turned on to keep up with my friends. Better than nothing.