Steam games outsell GOG games many times over. Even TW2 went like this according to PC Gamer:

"Direct2Drive, Impulse and Gamersgate's combined sales combined hit only 10,000 sales of CD Projekt's RPG, whereas GOG managed to shift a cool 40,000 copies.

Then there's Steam. Valve's digital distribution service managed to shift 200,000 copies in the same time period."

So even one of their own games is outsold that much. This is a trend that continues today. So did the GOG version of TW3 really outsell the Steam version? That's what's being claimed, with the combination making up that 1.3 million figure. Is it a weird wording that's being misinterpreted?

Yes technically the GOG version sold more according to GOG/CD Projekt, however one should be aware that this probably includes the Nvidia promo which gave GOG codes, and that many third party sites were also selling GOG codes. These would still be sold copies.

When you take that into account, this would give a leg up over Steam easily.

You seem to miss couple of things: GOG user base expanded considerably since 2011, boxed version of game came bundled with GOG activation code, not a Steam one, GOG codes were bundled with some of Nvidia graphics cards.

ARE THEY LYING TO US ? :)

Seriously : is it that hard to believe ?
W3 is in the top of the best selling list after all and cdproject red is a publically trade company. That's going to be pretty easy to check that out next year. It does seem like it has shaken quite a bit the faith of certain steamers though... :)

Trust me, if webstores sold the steam version then you would see a really big change of numbers, most people bought from the usual places (Nuuvem, G2A, etc).

And then come here butthurt asking "why no steam?" Reading comprehension failure 101.

They were clever in rigging the outcome in their favor with the Nvidia promo and not having any other official sellers of Steam and GOG keys.
And even with all that they didn't sell a huge amount more than Steam and actually consoles make up for most of the sales all together.

Rigging? Really?

They had a promotion with Nvidia... If the person buying didn't read the terms before buying then that is not GOG's fault. GOG has every right to promote their platform in promotional deals.

They also have the right to choose where the game is sold. All the biggest clients were able to sell it in addition to GOG including Steam and Origin. People did not lack options by any means.

They made a good business decision which expanded their brand...

Yes. The only thing that could be argued is that they maybe went a bit too fast, or it worked better than what they expected and now they are swarmed support wise (and the forum is a colony of cloned friends threads :-).
But in the end, their 'operational figures' went up, they can to be happy/proud.

And to give more insight for OP : throughout all the TW3 sale, I noticed a lot of people getting it here rather than on steam to better support CDPR. And this is the most important point : you are using all the narrative of 'retailer warfare' when there is no need for all that nonsense. Steam and GoG are two different services, one 'outsolding' the other isn't what we want as customers. Consumers should rejoice the market is diversifying.

Yes really.

That's just a marketing favorable shortcut. They got money on every NVIDIA sale, it's not like they gave it for free.

I never said they did.

I know you didn't :-)

If that is the case then Steam has been rigging things for years...

How exactly?