This is no different to the Galaxy specific rewards.

Amazon Prime Gaming give you a code which you redeem through the Cyberpunk My Rewards service; the content isn't then linked to the Amazon Gaming Launcher - it is downloaded/accessed through the Cyberpunk game, so any gating post acquisition is through the DRM of the game itself. This is still better than e.g. Steam where generally content is downloaded via the steam launcher.

You do not lose access to the content if you cancel your subscription. This is different to Game Pass, the EA equivalent or whatever else is out there.

While the gated cosmetics aren't a good thing, given that I don't think anyone specifically subscribes to "Twitch Prime" but instead gets an Amazon Prime Gaming subscription as part of their Prime subscription (i.e. you buy a Prime subscription for free next day delivery and the gaming service, along with the music, TV, films and the reading library are nice to haves), I'm not going to be down on Amazon Prime Gaming for this.

I also don't see how any skin drops can ever be described as cool, but there you go.

Except those complaints over Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed 2 weren't DRM. You got stuff for connecting your uPlay account. There's nothing wrong with that, nor is it DRM.

15 years later...

Let's replay that good old Prince of Persia game with my favourite reward skin. (See attachment) uh oh!


GOG account and RED Launcher are third party platforms and accounts to Steam and console users lol. CDPR is literally following in the footsteps of Ubisoft and I don't like that one bit. No online service stays online forever and I don't want to lose "My Rewards" the way I lost my "uPlay Rwards". Maybe CDPR will patch those in by default before shutting the authentication service down 20 years from now, but there are no guarantees.

Are you defending microtransactions being in Cyberpunk 2077 now?

Also I never said skin drops are cool, can you not read that I am against this? The cool part is a figure of speech.

As per usual, they've got us quibbling amongst ourselves with their latest bit of questionably delivered content, and they do not care in the slightest.

You're right, it is no different. And that's the problem. If all of these "Galaxy Rewards" generated an offline installer, we probably wouldn't be complaining here. Sure I still dislike Twitch drops as a concept, but if they gave me an offline installer, I'd be ok with them.

No, I'm not. If you read my post again, you'll see that. SargonAelther understood my post, so I think it's clear enough.


You did. It's right there in the title of this thread. It's not a figure of speech - you might have been ironic or sarcastic, but strangely enough, that never really comes out in the written word.

Yeah I can see you think that if you give 2 subs to this Twitch streamer you get a sniper rifle skin or if you give 1 sub to this Twitch streamer you get a helmet skin is not microtransactions. What? Dude you cannot get these skins in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty just by playing.

Also you need to read again and see I put shame on you CD Projekt RED and gog.com after I put cool. Look I do not know how figures of speech works in the United Kingdom, but here in the United States of America, when people say cool as a joke or what ever it is a figure of speech. Not that they are serious or actually mean it.

Can you mod the game and make your own skins? I understand that would be several days of work for even one set.

Punctuation is everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation.

I've used bracketed exclamation points myself, but not many people knows what the hell that means anyway XD

Maybe omit the cool? The use of sarcasm is hardly necessary because you're already directly expressing your disdain in the title anyway.

At the very least you needed to comma after Cool to avoid it getting read as an adjective.

I never commented on the type of transaction that was involved. You referenced Twitch Prime (which hasn't been a thing for a number of years), so I assumed you meant Amazon Prime Gaming. This month, all Amazon Prime Gaming subscribers are being given some Cyberpunk skins; I was referring to these. If Twitch Streamers (not that I've ever watched or come across one) are giving away different skins, well, fine, but that's so far divorced from the reality of the world I interact with, I really don't care.

But anyway, as Braggadar said, with punctuation your title would have been clearer. At the moment, your title reads as "There are some cool [great/amazing/things I want] skin drops that are available on Twitch Prime [which I don't have/I think is unfair to people who don't have]. Shame on you CDPR [for giving these amazing skins away on [Amazon Prime Gaming]"

If you put the comma or a semi colon in, it would have been marginally clearer that the cool wasn't an adjective, but only a little - e.g. Cool; skin drops are available on Twitch Prime for Cyberpunk 2077. Shame on you CDPR for this".

However, you'd have been better off omitting the sarcastic use of cool completely in the thread title and just saying what you meant - just because a word is used in a certain way by your demographic group in your country doesn't mean that native (or non-native) English speakers globally will understand it in the way that you do.