Hey, so for some time now i had this problem… I have been buying games from both gog and steam… No drm option is good on gog but there are some festures missing from what steam has, for example being able to buy games from trading cards… What should i do? Focuse on buying games from gog and if there isnt a game then buy it on steam? Or maybe just buy games on steam?
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Support GOG. what they’re doing is great.
Support Steam. what they’re doing is great.
Maybe, try to keep it roughly even. Or buy based on your whim. They’re both great.
Depends. I’d love to say go with GOG whenever possible but they have some utter shit in their store. Like, old versions of games with bugs that were patched years ago or just plain don’t work. Dragon’s Dogma where online is completely broken comes to mind. So, I guess find out which version is the best on a game-per-game basis? I realize how much of a fucking non-answer this is and I’m sorry to have wasted your time.
I primarily use Linux, and since GOG doesn’t have a native Linux version, it’s just much more convenient to use steam
GoG. You actually own the game. Like you used to with discs
No you don’t. Their ToS are very explicit about this. You’re buying licenses, just like on Steam.
If you read the TOS for the vast majority of games you will read that you have also purchased a licence, not ownership, of the game.
How does one buy games with trading cards? I have tons of them
You sell them on marketplace, then for those you get your currency on steam wallet, then with that you can buy games. You can also sell other inventory items as long as game uses steam inventory
Somehow I seriously doubt that anyone would want my cards, and don’t know what prices to set. Oh well.
Well there are 2 plugins for setting card prices, steamdb and steam enchanced. They both allow you to set card prices to price that will get bought quickly. Also there are many people who buy them to finish their card collection
ITT: a lot of people talking about “owning” games on GoG.
Call me old-fashioned, but if you can’t sell it or share it then you don’t own it. Valve does a much better job of communicating what you are actually paying for in my opinion.
Steam is also just a great client. It handles inputs better than anything else I’ve tried. The Linux support is incredible. Remote Play is incredible. The store experience is pretty great. Mod support through the Steam Workshop is great- I always sigh and roll my eyes any time I’m looking into missing a game and find that I need to download random files from a GitHub page or NexusMods.
I have a Steam Deck, and yes I’ve done my share of tinkering and customization under-the-hood with it, but at the end of the day the experience straight out of the box is still my preferred way to go. I’ve seen all these “replacement” UI’s out there people have made and like… It’s really great that it’s possible. It’ll help make sure that the hardware is supported for a long time after Valve has one inevitably moved on. It’s great for times when I want to dive in and tinker with something. But for actually playing games? The stock Steam Deck experience is still the way to go. Everything just… Works.
I hate DRM, but I appreciate how Valve at least identifies games with DRM. There’s a lot of games on my wishlist that regularly go on sale for ridiculously low prices, and I routinely check to see whether they have removed Denuvo yet. Those games usually just aren’t on GoG at all. Sonic Frontiers? Not listed- if Sega ever decides to stop paying Denuvo for that game then on Steam I will see that the next time it goes on sale (I might get an email too since I follow an anti-Denuvo curator, it I’m not 100% sure about that). On GoG it’s just… Maybe I’ll happen to see it featured on the front page as a new addition at some point?
GoG advertises themselves as a carefully curated platform, and that’s not what I want. I want to be able to see all of the games available, have information about them conveyed in a trustworthy and consistent manner, and make my own informed decisions. I admire what GoG does, and I have a handful of games from them, but I don’t think their overall offering compares favorably to Valve.
Of course there’s price. Sales happen on both platforms and it’s good to compare price histories. But even then the MSRP’s and the % discounts are usually standardized across platforms by the publisher with little difference across platforms (unless you’re using a Nintendo device lol).
If the game in question is an old game that “needs” a mod to run like vampire the masquerade bloodlines then choose gog.
Or if its important the game be on your machine with no drm etc then choose gog.
Else choose steam.
Steam can turn on a dime and we have seen what they can be like suspending the accounts of dead older brothers and letting developers abuse their customers. GOG is fundamentally free.
I buy from Steam because of the excellent Linux support, and Steam input.
I buy from GOG because I like owning my games and I like preserving good old games.
Every time I buy a game I make a choice based on those criteria.
I don’t like owning games twice.
The choice isn’t always easy, but that’s OK.
You can get the steam Linux support and steam input by adding your gog games as non steam games or using heroic or lutris or the like. It usually works pretty well.
Buy on gog if it’s there. Buy on steam otherwise. Keep a pirate copy handy either way.
If you own it on GoG you don’t need a pirate copy - just save the offline installer.
You might want a pirate steam copy if it’s one of the games that isn’t properly updated on gog, which is unfortunately common with newer (2016+) games
If it’s single player I go gog. If it’s multiplayer and there’s at least a 5% chance my friends will get it then I go with steam.
If you want to own the thing you purchase: gog
If you want to fund a billionaire super yacht and be subject to the whims of a large corporation run by a billionaire: steam
To me there’s no contest but a lot of people on lemmy are corporate shills.
It’s true that gog is better, but to completely misrepresent why people use steam is just disingenuous, it’s a better service than practically any other one out there(aside from gog ofc)
I offered one potential motivation which is giving billionaires a yacht
Other people have already listed their own motivation, I’m not required to represent every single possible motivation
That’s not the point, you’re being intentionally disingenuous while not giving all the facts, specifically to prove your point. You don’t have the paint the entire picture, but to imply that the only thing steam has to offer is giving money to a billionaire is bullshit and you know it.
If anyone genuinely thinks my message is the only reason you’d buy from steam.and hardcore refused to read any other comments besides mine… I really dgaf about them. It’s like fox news always says, this is clearly for entertainment purposes only and only a fucking idiot would believe it.
You’re again missing the point, and then you try backpedaling by saying you weren’t actually being serious just to cover your bases. Jesus what an absolute twat you are.
Also, sometimes games on gog don’t receive DLC or patch updates because the devs/publisher forget or don’t care. I remember seeing an extensive list of games, ~250, explaining what they had missing. I think A Hat in Time was one of the worst offenders
Here’s a gog forum post on the problem - https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_is_it_truly_more_difficult_for_developers_to_update_their_games_on_gog/page1
That seems worthy of being a top level response to the question
I try to go GOG first, so I can keep the installation kits offline. There are however a lot of good indies on Steam, and few of these ever get ported from there. Steam workshop is also fantastic and doesn’t really have a match on other platforms, and unlike GOG they provide good linux support. Also worth noting that some of the old games on GOG are inferior to their steam counterparts ( see Commander Keen for example ). So yes, I’d say both are good, but maybe prioritise GOG first.
Just whatever’s easiest. If you really hate DRM they get it on gog, if you don’t mind it, get it on steam.
I would prefer gog but with the steam deck, I find compatibility more reliable on Steam. Additionally, Steam workshop games are also really convenient.
