Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

Wtf Gog price on sale 25$. Same time on Steam 15$. Ain't buying anything on gog from now on

I was very dissapointed with CDPR's nonsensical treatment of the cyberpunk IP mainly because punks of any flavour have nothing to do with cops, yet this attempt at a game ignores that and has you rolling around with one and generally being a gopher for the fuzz. this makes zero sense in the setting. I'm old enough to have played the P&P version the game back in the day as well, so while I'm not setting myself up as the professor of cyberpunk, it seems I have a better grasp of it than CDPR.

It looks and plays fantastic on Ultra, but where the base game is playable with raytracing on a 3080Ti this expansion is a slideshow. Where I fondly remember the companions, the dark hand, the thieves guild, getting the mace of molag bal etc, as starter quests. The start of any CDPR game becomes so amazingly tedious because it has no replay value, its the same every time. I imagine starting a new run of this in 1-2 years time, immediately remembering how tedious this starting escort quest is and alt+f4'ing out of the game. Sure its the best escort quest I ever did see, but I can't think of a single escort quest I remember fondly. Is this the one? NO. I write to you in deep melancholy for the game has yet to start and I'm beginning to worry this is infact it. May I make it through these dark escort quest times. Atleast the escortee whoever has legs and can run.

I like the game and I want to buy Phantom Liberty, but I can't do it because I'm russian, and on Steam I need to buy the game for the second time, so I'll pass. I like supporting devs (that's why I bought the game at the start here and waited for the best times to start playing without being toxic), but if they don't want to support their fans and just regular customers, I won't support them too.

I would consider buying (again) the original game plus expansion on some other platform, even if it costs more because of resellers. Just because the game deserves it, it really does. But since CDPR deliberately say "We decided not to sell any games to russians and belorussians"... well... I guess they don't want my money. I just think people should know that CDPR are judging people by their nation. You can make further logical conclusions on your own. Reputation is hard to earn, but very easy to lose, you know...