More People Playing Witcher 3 on GOG than on Steam

bunch of idiots in the comments saying they would rather have steam. so people like drm controlling their games and not having them drm free. when steam takes away there games for any given reason im just going to sit here and laugh my ass off.

Gamespot is getting sloppy in their news covers recently. They forgot to mention that all PC boxed copies of the game also require GOG Galaxy to play. I bet there were at least several dozen thousand PC box copies that contributed to this result. Not to mention that in Poland you could get the game for 35 USD with all the nice bonus content included (map, guide, witcher pendent key ring etc.). But is all about the digital distribution now bla bla bla.

Got nothing to do with the fact that The Witcher 3 was given away free with NVidia cards and had to be turned in through GoG?

It's amazing how they can produce such a huge game at such a high quality for a fraction of the costs that bigger Publishers have. $32 million for the game, $35 million for the Marketing. For comparison: GTA V $265 million, AC:Unity ~$150 million. CDPR already made back their costs and then some.

I did the math using the stats above, and the average GOG Witcher 3 player has played for 22.5 hours. FYI.

DRM-free is the way to go.

Good job GOG.

That is good to hear. I personally preordered on GOG because I figured 100% of the sale would go to CD Projekt, plus I got a great discount from owning the previous two games.

Cheap always wins, surprise surprise.

Makes sense. Steam is actually one of the worst places to buy new release titles. They're usually at most 10% off for preorder and stay full price for a really long time. You can find way better deals anywhere else. I only bought it on steam because I enjoy the platform and like to keep all my games on it. If the game requires steam though, I buy it elsewhere. Greenmangaming has been my go to for buying games now for a massive discount.

Had I known GOG version of witcher 3 was DRM free I would have bought my version there as well so not surprised.

When I finally purchase my PC version of Witcher 3, I am going to buy it from GOG. Not because GOGGalaxy is a better alternative for Steam, but just I want to keep supporting CDProjekt.

I would never ever use GOG. I prefer using Steam.

Never thought I'd use a different platform than steam. Gog.com changed that and I prefer it to steam. Steam really lost its appeal to me when they decided to charge for mods.

Never thought I'd use a different platform than steam. Gog.com changed that and I prefer it to steam.

Its a good thing, Steam need competition and If GOG can keep with their competitive edge it makes it even better for PC gamers.

They also offered a discount to people who bought the Witcher 2 on GOG. Well deserved boost to them.

It sold around 540 000 copies in the first two weeks after release on Steam, so with the GOG Galaxy numbers it makes together more than 1,23 mil. copies sold of the PC version in those two weeks - BUT don't forget that not everyone who has GOG or retail version is using Galaxy to play the game, so the PC version could have sold around 1,5 in those two weeks - great numbers if you ask me :)

It's probably because Nvidia has been throwing in a free copy redeemable thru GOG with the purchase of a video card.

It might be different now, but the first few pirated releases of that game all required play it through "GOG Galaxy" so you could also say all the pirated copies of the game are being played through GOG too lol. Do those count??

I think it's also because people who bought the physical PC copy were offered the chance to also play it through GoG.

Either way, some competition for Steam is good.

I really hope TW3 success on GOG will convince big publishers to release their new (or slightly older) games DRM-free.

Another interesting figure in those stats is apparently (as of this post) only 51 people have completed 100% of the achievements. Considering how many people are playing this game, that's not a lot!

This is great news. Although I bought it on Steam. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Yeah well GOG was selling the game for 30 bucks while it is still just about 60 on Steam. Common sense says more people will play it on GOG.

I love these guys and will continue to support them. Witcher 3 is a 9 plus game, and drm is the devil. Keep taking my money guys! And girls...that work there.