clarry: Well, CDPR has a good bargaining chip around the corner. I'm sure Valve wants their cut of CP2077 sales.
Sorry, but CDPR has absolutely no bargaining chip around the corner.
The only one, losing out, by not releasing Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam, would be CDPR.
Sure, Steam wouldn't make a cut...
on one game.
On the other side, what would keep Steam-users, from simply resort to illegal measures?
After all: Cyberpunk 2077 will be DRM-free, no?
Just one mirror out in the wild - and people with no interest in openeing a GOG-account will be able to download and play CP2077, whether it is on Steam, or not.
And before somebody chimes in with: "
Yeah, well...just because it's not on Steam, doesn't mean, Steam-users will pirate it!"
True! But let me ask you a simple question: If you want your game on Steam (
and you would be willing to buy (means: pay for)
it there, even if only during a sale)...but the game in question doesn't get released there,
BUT is DRM-free (
meaning: no restriction wahtsoever, to get it onto your HDD)...would you let yourself being restrained from getting it?
Or would you (
just maybe) feel to have "
the right", to get it for free - if only to spite CDPR, who dared, to not support your preferred online-platform?
And before you answer to that: think about, how many times you saw posts here on GOG, where piracy got advocated - by GOG-users.
Or think about other posts, where it came to the bottom line "
GOG's not cheap enough"...many (
most?) people will try to save a penny (
or rather $60) whenever they can.
Now couple that thinking with the kind of entitlement
(*), that sets in, whenever people don't get what they want
(
"I want my games on store X, and to hell with you, if you don't serve me there!"), and it's easy to see, what would happen.
(*) And I think, we all can agree, that there is quite some entitlement existing in the "gaming-
community" today.
You know - lots of people love to throw a tantrum over "
the greedy corporations", while at the same time downloading these corporation's work for free, because it would be too much asked of them, to open a new account, or - heaven forbid - just abstain from playing a certain game.
So, I really don't see CDPR on the winning side, should they decide, to keep their Game GOG-exclusive
(
not, that they will do that).