im struggling, the game is not out yet but it might get a steam workshop? and maybe some other benefits on steam?
otherwise i got all witcher games on gog.com and if there should be something cut or whatever i guess gog.com will deliver the right version. also modding should be better on gog i guess?

I'm not a 'Steam Hater' but I can't imagine you're going to get many unbiased answers in here. :P

It's simple. You have to choose. Either you choose Steam and you're buying the game for Gabe Newell himself (and he can take it from you at any moment), or either you buy it for yourself on GOG.

Based on the information we have right now, there are no Steam specific features whatsoever for The Witcher 3 there. So I don't think there will be anything exclusive like Steam workshop in the game as I am sure CDPR would not want to differentiate the game and make it less attractive on their own store. Ofcourse I don't have to remind you that its also DRM Free here on GOG. :)

I bet Steam is still going to have a quicker update schedule even if GOG is made "in-house". That said, the advantage of not getting an update that may break something and having it DRM-free might be more valuable for some.

Not really. Every version of Witcher 3 will have an auto-update launcher similar to Witcher 2, so the patches should arrive at the same time, regardless of the version you choose (Retail, GOG, Steam or even Origin).

IMO, tinyE is right, and loon is taking it to the extreme.

My suggestion: compare Witcher 2 on Steam to Witcher 2 on GOG, and you can probably come to a similar conclusion about Witcher 3.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/
http://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher_2

I rather support GOG than Steam......
GOG all the way .......

I think I can safely say Witcher 3 is not going to be using the Steam workshop. They'd be promoting using Steam over their own storefront (GOG). Particularly with them building their own client right now they're really not going to do something like that.

As for choices. Depends. If you use Steam on a daily basis anyway and you like having all your games in one list/easy management, then you could consider buying it on Steam.

However, Witcher 3 will probably be well integrated in Galaxy so once that comes out it'll be in a nice managed 'list' of it's own, just not your Steam list but your GOG list. This would kind of depend on which front you use more.

There's the argument of support. By buying on GOG you're supporting GOG/CDP to the max, whereas on Steam Valve will take a 30% cut of the sale.

And last but not least, there's a fairly good chance that somewhere down the line, anyone who bought Witcher 3 on Steam will be given the option to activate their copies, for free, on GOG, same as they did with previous Witcher games. Obviously they've neither confirmed nor denied if they're going to do this in the future, just that they're not doing it for now. This makes sense because confirming it now would just steer people to buying the game on Steam and waiting for their inevitable GOG activation somewhere down the line.

Personally I have no doubt they'll be doing that at some point, because there's really only benefits for GOG in doing so, it's good advertisement, it pulls in more people to make an account on GOG to activate their 'DRM-Free' copy, and I also think it's very likely they're going to time it to promote their Galaxy client at the same time.

Get it on steam. The previous titles, 1 and 2, their steam version product key, was able to be redeemed here on GoG, for free game copy here. Besides, steam is the trendy place for socializing, competing, achievements and stuff, yo, who wouldn't like an abusive, intrusive client to hound his system, survey his games and hours of play and stuff? With enforced updates as a free bonus?

Get your steam copy proudly! And redeem the code later on gog...

If there's a Steam workshop, there will be a Nexus page. While not quite as "click and play" as the workshop, it also reduces and elminates installation errors by a system and allows more flexibility in what mods can actually do.

It's too early to say whether the 3rd Witcher game will have a strong modding community, but one thing is for sure, this is one of the few games where buying the DRM-free version is not going to be a disadvantage in any way. If anything, the GOG version of the game will be the best. CDPR and GOG belong to the same company after all, and it would be plain silly if they offered an inferior version of their own game here.

If there's going to be official mod support, they'll do it via GOG galaxy, or directly via the website. Steam won't be required.

( Oh, and of course the GOG version will also come with the most bonus content, if you care about that. )

As a rule of thumb Steam takes 30% of all sales income for a game. So if you want to support the developers you should buy the GOG version.

Functionality-wise you can be pretty sure that the GOG version will not be inferior in any way to Steam version. That would make no sense.

thanks for the replies, i just got it here, hope the gog galaxy will integrate better mod support, patches, servers etc. would love to play ut and ut2k4