Need advice(exchange GOG-game DLC to Steam analog)

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Bought The Witcher 3 Blood & Wine DLC on Amazon thought it can be easily exchanged to steam-version on witcher3.com
Was wrong.
GOG's support answer:

Unfortunately you are required to own main games on GOG.com to be able to redeem and play DLC. Our versions of games are specially modified and differ from other releases.

Exchange webpage works only for retail codes - digital codes won't work there.

Also as said on Amazon's return policy for gamecodes "This product is non-returnable and non-refundable."

Any ideas on how can i exchange GOG's version to Steam's version of DLC?

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Simfono

Where?

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Simfono

I thought gog's games not allowed here. Thanks for advice, i'll try it.

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talgaby

Only here, because people are Steam-fixated. The DRM-free version where you can use it without restrictions usually goes for a higher price on other markets, because, well, no restrictions.

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genkicoll

Exactly. DRM-free game-lovers find the GOG codes more valuable.

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EvilBudgie

The gog version is on sale in more places though, so it's more common. And you could get for practically free (unless I'm thining of the wrong dlc) on amazon during their prime event.

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G7FrAnubis

That's just one of the two DLCs.

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Satsuz

You can probably do the reverse. At least with the previous Witcher games, owning the Steam version doubles as getting a key for the GOG version. So, you add the base Witcher 3 to your GOG library, and then the DLC. You won't get the game on Steam, but at least you can use the DLC you paid for.

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Simfono

You propose me to buy another Witcher 3 on GOG? Bad idea. I'm already have Witcher on Steam and playing it for about 100 hours.

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G7FrAnubis

You can play the previous ones on Steam and simply transfer their saved data when you get around to playing W3 on GOG. That's what I did at least.

Then again, I do not care much about having everything on Steam and DRM-free is a big plus for me.

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PsyKo

From what I see Witcher 3 save games are in MyDocuments, so you probably wouldn't even need to do anything with them.

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G7FrAnubis

Indeed you can! All saves are in My Documents, under one folder for each game.

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Satsuz

I know you fixed it, but I just wanted to clarify: I was saying there might be a feature that lets you copy your already-purchased -Steam- key into GOG, and own both versions, for free. They did this with Witcher 1 & 2, calling it a "backup copy": https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup

Unfortunately, for whatever reason they haven't enabled this for Witcher 3 just yet, so it wouldn't have helped you anyway. Sorry for the confusion.

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Simfono

I think this feature works with retail copy of game like http://thewitcher.com/en/exchange

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PsyKo

AFAIK you can't, they only allows that for W1 and W2.

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