do other games on Steam that do require something else (like Origin and uPlay titles) require other clients or just accounts generally? If it's other clients then I kinda agree tbh.

"I have to say I love Linkara, I was walking around, various places, and I saw Linkara the great Linkara, he did 'Atop-The-Fourth-Wall' and he talked about the famous Power Rangers rant..." - Trump

I have no idea what that is.

Linkara? I can't say I see the connection.

Yeah... so annoying when something uses referral links

I was going to say something that kind of argued in favor of it but I keep coming back to the reality where referral schemes are drying up compared to how rampant they were a handful of years ago.

GWENT has DRM, it shouldn't be here at all. They'll make more money off it from Steam. They should put it on the Epic Store too.

So if I understood right, the Steam version requires the buyer to create a GOG account, and possibly it also installs Galaxy 2.0 beside Steam? (A bit like GTA IV Steam-version, which I installed the other day, installs the Rockstar client (if one is not installed already), and you also have to create an account to Rockstar if you don't have one already.)

If so, that's actually pretty clever from CDPR. Steam users don't apparently mind creating lots of extra third-party accounts and installing lots of extra clients, so I guess it is fine.

Considering that GWENT doesn't even belong on GOG because it's a DRMed fuck-up with microtransactions and player abuse.

Agreed. If it's on Steam, people has an easy way of playing it and it doesn't need to be on the DRM-FREE STORE.

Come on guys. Stop cheating.

I find this developement very interesting. First they host several holiday events with RNG rewards that were missable, then they introduce a battle-pass system, like all the other F2P games that don't want to commit to a subscribtion system, but want the regular payments one gets in a subscription system, and now they release on Steam. Some of the shareholders must have tasted blood, and it tasted like more.

I actually agree with that.

Oh no, a portion do mind, but they'll put up with it ultimately (granted some of us on GOG get used to things too :P). I do like the idea of that potentially funneling more users to GOG.

Yeah, I was just thinking that this month's quota of threads that ask nonsensical sounding questions about Gwent without ever mentioning it by name wasn't met :P

Well look at that. A "Gwent has DRM!!" circle jerk thread! And I thought they went extinct.

Gwent is a F2P online multiplayer game. How is it suppose to work offline?

lololol, no, wait... hol' up!

I haven't played Gwent and I have no idea how microtransactions work in the Steam version (or the Galaxy version, for that matter). But if they're sold directly inside the game without the purchase actually going through Steam, wouldn't that mean that Valve won't see a nickel from this game?

If that's the case, it would be deviously clever on so many levels. They'd have put up a bogus store page for no other reason than getting Steam users to register on gog while 100% cutting Valve out of any profits made from microtransactions (which are sure to soar thanks to Steam's larger user base).

If the above is the case, I applaud them.

That's like defending the idea of using a car as a boat by saying "of course it has wheels! It's a car! How would it drive around without them?". The argument isn't that a car shouldn't have wheels. It's that it doesn't belong in the sea.