This game is available on GOG.com!
I can’t believe it, a dream come true. So, there is only one question left for me: should I exchange the physical edition for a GOG.com key or should I keep it?
I am not so sure. GOG.com key would have all my games (except Arma 3) in one place. A physical edition on the other hand… oh what gives, I’m all for reducing plastic consumption.
Ok then, can I exchange my physical edition against a GOG.com one?
its probably too late since they are already ready for shipping
gog will also be available in late february (27th)
Well. Ok then. I’ll honour the physical edition. Shame, I should have thought quicker of that.
Now i feel really bad about wasting plastic, but I really didn’t know it would be available on GOG.com. I thought it would be Steam only, so I went for physical.
It was not sure until recently. So when we found out first day, it was late already.
Just curious; what do you think is wrong with Steam?
DRM for thr most part.
What are disadvantages of this Drm. Ihave preordered kcd on steam😓
only disadvantage is that you have to login to you account
on gog you dont need internet connection or login to play your game
So I have to log in just one time or everytime I play game?
you need to log in to steam every time and start the game from steam
For me its not problem, I have the game on Steam myself
You can open Steam in offline mode. Ah sorry you mean you stll have to open Steam (online or offline) before playing? You can send a shortcut to desktop.
Acutally it’s not only DRM.
DRM is a good reason by itself to avoid Steam, but much more important is that they can (and do) meddle with your installations.
For example GTA: San Andreas and GTA: Vice City. In both games they removed parts of the soundtrack, in GTA: Vice City to a degree that totally alters the experience.
The problem is that they not only took something away from a game you bought, the problem is that this even happened if you had already installed the game:
When you “buy” on Steam, you don’t buy games - you buy licenses. And licenses can expire.
Thanks for the answer.
DRM, did not even know what it was and had to look it up. No issue for me anyway.
Did not know Steam could take parts out of the game. Still, quite sure they are allowed to do this without permission from the game producer. So is the game producer not equally to blame (besides I can not think of a reason why they should want to do take parts out)?
Still, that is indeed a reason for not using Steam.
My main annoyance with Steam is the constant updating that it does; it can really be quite obtrusive.
Additionally, you cannot archive installers.
I was just about to say that, I’m glad I read through the thread. I had to check, just to make sure as well.
In this case it isn’t the game producer who wanted a piece of the game taken out.
GTA uses real music (that is, regular popular music that is made by stars) in their ingame-radio. 2001 or 2004 respectively the game producer (Rockstar - no pun intended) could acquire the licenses at a reasonable price - mostly because the music industry thought that there is no games “industry” and it’s all a dud for nerds or something. At least something that isn’t near as popular as music.
Ten years later, being hit by MP3 and the Internet revolution in the meantime, the music industry is desperately seeking for new revenue - and found out that licenses still work in their favour (mostly because they did write the according laws).
So they do what big corps do - they blackmail. In this case: dish out a proper cut from your hugely successful games. Computer gaming industry says no. Judges judge that although a customer bought something, they still have no control over it when it’s only been licensed by someone else who then sold it on.
