But we're doing it with each other. Surely this is a full-on DRM debate orgy!

Quoting M3troid:
"As long it's only cosmetics, i don't give a damn. But yeah, DRM it is." sums it up for me too.
Wich in itself is disapointing enough to see on gog, and one more notch into the list of disapointing things.
Want to push galaxy, fine, gog's perrogative, i find it usefull for my needs regarding updates, but i wish they would do it differently, maybe give us a first party "gogrepoc", or "gasp" an improved forum.

The Complete Edition's Classic Installer in the Extras has been fixed and can now be downloaded.

Sigh. Once again CDPR and Gog try to push an amount of DRM into the store that claims (and used) to be DRM-free. Those "geniuses" at the helm show once more that they either don't know or don't care for their customers.

I wonder how much DRM would be needed to get Gudadantza or foad01 to say "This is unacceptable, Gog". Because, let's be honest — however much it is, it's already in the plans of the current CDPR/Gog leadership to get there. Hitman 2016 was proof of that (or to be more precise, the time they took waiting for the forum indignation to die down before they finally removed it was the proof), and it was a miscalculation on their part. They thought they wouldn't need the "boiling frog" approach.

Now they are doing it a little more carefully, more slowly, but don't be fooled the end result will be the same — if we let them do it, of course. Oh look, their "White knights" are already on the scene with the usual excuses to ensure — whether knowingly or by naiveté — that Gog will get away with this extra dose of DRM.

And yet there are those who think the boycott was an overreaction. Geez. Some people must love being deceived.

See, I would give your words at least some weight if you hadn't done exactly that in dozens of posts in the now defunct boycott thread.
Edit: realized I was using a word that did not mean what I was thinking of

Won't go into game on my Steam Deck. It gets through the opening cutscenes, and then when they're done and you take control of Geralt, freeze crash instantly. Haven't tried on my PC yet.

I've yet to play this be it OG or Next-gen, but it seems like the Next-gen is causing issues for ppl.
Is there like an option to just have the QoL and new quest stuff added without any of the graphics stuff.

It is.

Could somebody please tell me how this dynamic minimap is supposed to work? You can turn it off while you are exploring but when does it get turned on again? This update should have come with a new manual as well - so many unexplained options now.

Edit: Found the description of the mod CDPR obviously used. To turn minimap on you need to use witcher senses.

I wonder if they included the language packs in the classic installer packages as well. Right now the language pack can still get downloaded along with the complete edition (even though they probably won't work with those since they are already included in the complete edition) though.
Unfortunately no, there isn't.

I don't think they do. The classic installer in the extras is 10 files, which contain the English language plus all the other non-voiced languages. To be honest, I'm not sure how they could pull it off, without making the extras section an even bigger mess than it already is.

CD Projekt is literally burning all the goodwill generated by the original sale of Witcher 3.
It appears that they were lazy in how they implemented DX12.
If one wants to play this "Updated" version", you'll have to play it in DX11. With ALL the visual bells and whistles turned off.
And it all comes down to CPU BOTTLENECKING.
I have an i7 11800H 2.30Ghz, 16 gig RAM, and a GTX 3050 Ti. - I can't run the game (With DLSS off) at anything above 50 fps.
I've now disabled the two dll files associated with DX12 and the game NEARLY reaches 100 fps.
Why you decided to be lazy in implementing for DX12 is beyond me. -After your dumpster fire of Cyberpunk you should have learned your lesson.
A message to CD Projekt: "Free" or not, you have really done yourselves and your customers (We're no longer Fans) a huge disservice.
You had better get on repairing this. NOW.

There's a lot of truth in your words, but well designed RT can work with a mid-range card and look darn nice. Control is a good example, a game I could run with RT on even with my old 2070. Metro 3 is another. Observer: System Redux I even ran without any upscaling, RT on..

Some games just don't optimize it well at all, or slap it into a game that wasn't designed for it, and those are the games where it doesn't make sense. Sadly The Wither 3 is one of those.

I have an RTX 2060, and Geforce experience usually tells me to turn ray-tracing off. It should be called "rap-tracing", because when I turn it on the game drops frames like I drop rhymes.

I don't use that app and choose my own settings, so I can't really comment. 2060 is a 1080p card, and I'd guess it can run Control with RT on with DLSS. I will say DLSS looks a lot worse at 1080p than 1440p or 4k though.

Can't connect gog to GeForce now? I have the game in my library, thanks for the help