Hi Marcin , I just signed up after reading your FAQs on the web. I would like to ask a question about Steam users. You said you people employed a GOG.com code so that honest users get free updates and DLCs. What about Steam users? Will we also need a Gog.com code or we get free updates and DLCs without any such hassle? Please clarify, thanks
The updates and DLC (and the enhancement packs, if you buy them) for the Steam version come directly from Steam, as with other games.
You'll also need to "keep around" dlc and game-patches. The GoG code will give permanent access to the full digital distribution too.
Almost seems a non issue tbh.
So I foresighted it very well, the boxed copies lack a file so it won't leak, sorry but Ï call that DRM and it was a big lie that the boxed versions can be installed and played _offline_. Maybe the EE or GOTY version will be but not the initial ones. And as per gog code in the retail boxes, it is gonna work similar to an steam key, you are gonna need it to validate the game and download patches and dlcs from GOG... So a DRM again =) It won't be a good idea to sell the gog code, you may be able to if you wish but not a good idea. I think I guessed it all 2 weeks ago.
The only painful detail is that steam users do get a gog key as well, HEY! ï want an steam key with my gog preorder :/ That is NOT fair!!!! Especially to the ones like me that have the games in both stores, my plan has always been to get W3 at steam in some sale in the future, very cheap, as my main ones are the ones at gog. My steam ones are my backups
EDIT: The gog keys from steam games may end being sold, if they are not mandatory, are the 16 free dlcs available at steam or are gonna steam users be forced to get them at gog? They wont be happy...
EDIT2: Not clear if the steam version has or not a gog key....
The only painful detail is that steam users do get a gog key as well, HEY! ï want an steam key with my gog preorder :/ That is NOT fair!!!! Especially to the ones like me that have the games in both stores, my plan has always been to get W3 at steam in some sale in the future, very cheap, as my main ones are the ones at gog. My steam ones are my backups
EDIT: The gog keys from steam games may end being sold, if they are not mandatory, are the 16 free dlcs available at steam or are gonna steam users be forced to get them at gog? They wont be happy...
EDIT2: Not clear if the steam version has or not a gog key....
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I've read it here this morning:
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/35141-GOG-to-Steam
Nobody told the guy there was not a gog key in steam, so far I assumed there is... there is or not there is a gog key with steam?
I HOPE so then. But somebody should have to tell that guy before he cancels the gog-the-only-without-drm-version preorder....
The OnDisk leak failsafe
I have heard of a on disk anti leak thing where after the game has been installed you have to download a file to be able to make it run, but if a customer can't connect to the internet how would they be able to play the game?
I have heard of a on disk anti leak thing where after the game has been installed you have to download a file to be able to make it run, but if a customer can't connect to the internet how would they be able to play the game?
First off, this is for PC only. And for the first production batch of PC retail copies only.
And secondly, there is no way to play without that small download. The file will be made available on their site. So, you can download it whenever you want and wherever you want and run it on the system W3 is installed.
And secondly, there is no way to play without that small download. The file will be made available on their site. So, you can download it whenever you want and wherever you want and run it on the system W3 is installed.
It's not to prevent any leak, but to prevent the pirate copies showing on internet before the D1.
They are likely banking on idea that someone with the fund to both afford a PC capable of running the game+buy the game itself day one, is likely to have some means to access the internet briefly.
I just know that i will have some internet maintenance in this are for a while around the time the game releases, if i am unlucky i could be without internet for a while so i wanted to know just in case.
If you want to think of it that way, maybe.
But it also prevents leaks and I, for one, don't want to see any massive spoiler dumps BEFORE the game actually comes out. CDPR have been trying to prevent that from happening for a long time now.
I'm sure it would be small enough to be downloaded onto a phone.
Well... That's a leak too though
And a very bad one at that. In that case, pirates who didn't pay for the game can play it before the paying customers.
Isn't that the very definition of a leak? Leaked versions of games are never legal so obtaining such a copy is pretty much the equivalent of piracy.
I find it a bit funny that people expect the to pre-load the game without a form of DRM attached to it (even one as minor as this). Needing an extra file to activate it on release day is the least intrusive way of doing this. What doesn't make much sense though is the whole need a GOG code to download patches and free DLC... like that's going to stop pirates from updating their game. It's still a form of DRM that has the potential to screw over some legit customers in the end.
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