nightcraw1er.488: Online only. Galaxy forced. Could be the greatest game ever invented, but you don't get past that fundamental point. It is the first fully drm/online only game on a drm free site.
Lucumo: It's a multiplayer game that isn't exactly LAN-friendly, so of course it's online only. As for Galaxy...many people probably prefer it to a direct IP connection because most of them wouldn't even be able to find their own. I'm all for DRM-free (to the point I avoid all Steam games since the platform is itself DRM) but one still has to be reasonable.
It's a <insert excuse here>, has already been done to death. It is perfectly reasonable to expect a store whose sole selling point is drm free, to follow its own guidance, and online only is far worse than drm (which can be removed).
Steam platform is not drm, ceg is the steam drm. If your fine using a client and/or online only then there is not point whatsoever buying here, unless you like fewer choice, higher prices, less/slower updates, and incomplete products.
But it doesn't matter, it's here now, and that the end of it. All the other industry rubbish has come here over the time since galaxy release, and I expect cyberpunk to be mostly if not all online only, likely with denuvo, regional pricing, loot boxes, pre order exclusives, day 1 dlc etc. All the crap we expect from a modern day steam clone, and there will be the queue of people telling me how great it is and that it was designed that way so it's fine.
For me it would have been reasonable to assume that if I was happy with that, I would have just brought on steam, not change every other store to be exact clones of it.
So yes galaxy and Gwent are the two biggest changes for the worse this store has done, plenty of other smaller changes, but these are real key milestones.