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pretty sure GOG only breaks even at best. MS probably makes more money from a single office license...Gog is a moneymaker. Not a money printer like Steam is, but it makes them money.
it's also nothing MS has any use for, since they want to use their own store to tie people to windows, not offer them DRM free games. even if they'd buy it they would have to change in a way that would drive off all the people that use GOG for a reason.
the point is the average state goes up just as the player does. bring a gun to detroit and chicago and you'll be ventilated quite fast because everybody got one, meanwhile half the time it's depicted like europe where having a gun is the exception. any gadget or tech would either have a counter or equivalent, you wouldn't be anything special.As to the world of Cyberpunk, Night City is worse than Detroit or Chicago with the utter lawlessness, and has been ever since 2020. The NCPD is spread thin protecting just the nice parts of town, with anarchy and mob violence being the standard elsewhere. The corps tacitly encourage the violence as it keeps the cops off their backs and makes them money from drugs and weapons that fall off the back of trucks. Sometimes it backfires and they get hit... which is why one of the scanner missions in 2077 is where some loose ends who could have leaked to Militech that the NCPD told Maelstrom about the convoy carrying that expensive recon drone got finally tied up. You kinda forget too that the Tyger Claws and 6th Street are/were catspaws for Arasaka and Militech, although 6th Street has since gone rogue after Gunnar got out of prison, with a "Fuck EVERY corp" attitude instead of just "Fuck Arasaka".