You can do that on Steam too.
I could backup all my 3000 games on Steam now if I had the space (and then in 20 years play most of them or look for a crack if it had DRM).
Buying a Steam game when it's on GOG. Why?
- Thread starter Deleted member 3534
- Start date
You can do that on Steam too.
I could backup all my 3000 games on Steam now if I had the space (and then in 20 years play most of them or look for a crack if it had DRM).
I just got GOG last week, and was searching around for information on the company. I hope you don't mind that I'm bumping up this thread. A few things struck me when reading this.
This reminded me of something I read recently where the person said people suspect that civilization end before capitalism does, despite civilization been thousands of years old and capitalism having only been around a few hundred at most. You are literally positing a reality where the end of civilization is more likely to happen than a company to stop making revenue sufficient to cover its debts. That happens all the time, and sometimes to massive companies that are well run.
Why a company would want to buy an unprofitable company is beyond me.
As someone who just got a GOG account last week, I had some observations:
I got a free game because I spent over $5, and if I just spent a bunch more I would have gotten the $25 game. And it was clear which games I would get. I was tempted to spend the additional money to try out Rime, but I wasn't really that interested.
I used GOG Galaxy just to try it out. It was super simple, just like Steam, but looked nicer. It was strange that it doesn't list games on the left until you install them.
I can assure you that GOG does have achievements, streams, forums, cloud saves, playtime tracking and that stuff. Though not trading cards, workshop. Don't know about install migration.
One question, however: what is the point of these trading cards on steam? I don't understand how I got them, what they do, and why it matters.
This reminded me of something I read recently where the person said people suspect that civilization end before capitalism does, despite civilization been thousands of years old and capitalism having only been around a few hundred at most. You are literally positing a reality where the end of civilization is more likely to happen than a company to stop making revenue sufficient to cover its debts. That happens all the time, and sometimes to massive companies that are well run.
Why a company would want to buy an unprofitable company is beyond me.
As someone who just got a GOG account last week, I had some observations:
I got a free game because I spent over $5, and if I just spent a bunch more I would have gotten the $25 game. And it was clear which games I would get. I was tempted to spend the additional money to try out Rime, but I wasn't really that interested.
I used GOG Galaxy just to try it out. It was super simple, just like Steam, but looked nicer. It was strange that it doesn't list games on the left until you install them.
I can assure you that GOG does have achievements, streams, forums, cloud saves, playtime tracking and that stuff. Though not trading cards, workshop. Don't know about install migration.
One question, however: what is the point of these trading cards on steam? I don't understand how I got them, what they do, and why it matters.
You can sell them.
Or buy the rest and craft them so you get emoticon and backgrounds for your steam profile.
Pretty simple:
GOG's curacy sucks, I like to have my games in one place and Steam client is an plus for all the neat features: Communities, Guides, Workshop, Friend list, Big Picture Mode, Steam Cloud Saves, Steam VR, In-Home Streaming and most of all: Steam controller API.
GOG's curacy sucks, I like to have my games in one place and Steam client is an plus for all the neat features: Communities, Guides, Workshop, Friend list, Big Picture Mode, Steam Cloud Saves, Steam VR, In-Home Streaming and most of all: Steam controller API.
The less dramatic-sound version was that a world in which Steam has so little value that no one would want to take up it's assets and infrastructure is probably a such a different world, at least in regards to the production and consumption of media, that I don't see much point speculating about it. And companies take over the assets of unprofitable businesses all the time because they think those assets could be productive in a different business model.
The point being, I don't see any reason to worry about the loss of my digital games library. I'm far more likely to lose a physical game than Steam is to vanish from the earth. This is distinct from the issue of games preservation in general, which I do wish publishers would think about more.
I first noticed someone's profile looked unusually interesting with a background a few minutes ago (a game guide creator, the only reason I checked the profile). So that's what people do with the cards. Seems like a thing that you should be able to do on your own. Guess I'll see about selling my cards to get rid of them.
Part of it for me is the fact that I've had a Steam account for 10+ years.
The big part for me though, is the fact that GOG's sales don't interest me nearly as much as Steam's do. I was excited to check out what GOG had on offering when their summer sale was announced, but nothing really piqued my interest. GOG's pool of games is just a bit too shallow for my taste I guess.
The big part for me though, is the fact that GOG's sales don't interest me nearly as much as Steam's do. I was excited to check out what GOG had on offering when their summer sale was announced, but nothing really piqued my interest. GOG's pool of games is just a bit too shallow for my taste I guess.
If you want a certain background, you can also just sell the cards and buy the background on the market.
https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/516600-Elysium?filter=bai qu
Price depends on the market. Some backgrounds can be as expensive as 6-10$, some are a few cents.
Yes, it seems like they were trying something out in the last sale or two, and it didn't work out so they're back to the regular deals.
For me the main reason was that GoG is more painful to refund on.
Steam's automated refund system is very convenient. When I needed to refund on GoG it was a ton of emails before I got it refunded.
Steam's automated refund system is very convenient. When I needed to refund on GoG it was a ton of emails before I got it refunded.
I'm personally boycotting everything GOG until Cyberpunk implements a third person camera, they can't get away with this injustice./s
Just easier to have everything in one spot. I don't have an issue buying multiple copies of the same game. I have the Sierra games on both gog and Steam.
It does, but only when using the Galaxy client, and when you have a mandatory client involved you're negating the actual USP that GOG has, namely DRM free titles.
The vast majority of my games are on Steam and I...enjoy selling the trading cards. I have almost one hundred games on GoG, but I barely use the service unless there's a giveaway or fresh Connect games.
Prefer gog cause it doesn't shove updates down my throat. Be it client or have updates I'd much prefer not to bother with them and gog gives me that option. Even consoles don't anymore.
Hell, I played God of war 3 for the first time last year and had to cancel the update WHILE I WAS PLAYING at least 5 times until it popped up at just the exact moment I was pressing O, so I kinda got forced into installing the thing.
And one extra middle finger steam gives me? The thing that pops up with desks is called UPDATE news. Pointless but still feels like me and my desire to play games instead of eating time downloading updates are being told to screw.
Hell, I played God of war 3 for the first time last year and had to cancel the update WHILE I WAS PLAYING at least 5 times until it popped up at just the exact moment I was pressing O, so I kinda got forced into installing the thing.
And one extra middle finger steam gives me? The thing that pops up with desks is called UPDATE news. Pointless but still feels like me and my desire to play games instead of eating time downloading updates are being told to screw.
People mentioned Humble. But is that actually a comparable service? Can I redownload games? Are they all listed on a site? Do they have any social features?
I rebought Pillars of Eternity on Steam after initially buying it on GOG on release.
Did not like the patching system, the patch numbers were completely fucking different than the version numbers and there were different branches of those with Vanilla, White Marches, then White Marches pt 2. Had no intrerest in GOG Galaxy as that just ended up being another Steam and I couldn't work out how to tell it not to download patches unless I wanted to.
Steams my preferred platform. I'm always looking out for games getting released cheap there so I can keep my library all together.
Did not like the patching system, the patch numbers were completely fucking different than the version numbers and there were different branches of those with Vanilla, White Marches, then White Marches pt 2. Had no intrerest in GOG Galaxy as that just ended up being another Steam and I couldn't work out how to tell it not to download patches unless I wanted to.
Steams my preferred platform. I'm always looking out for games getting released cheap there so I can keep my library all together.
I used to travel for several hours daily on a train with my laptop, and I ran into SO many problems with Steam's crappy DRM preventing my from playing games.
Because of this I always bought games on GOG when possible.
But then GOG did that terrible publicity stunt when they pretended to go out of business, and I haven't bought anything since.
Because of this I always bought games on GOG when possible.
But then GOG did that terrible publicity stunt when they pretended to go out of business, and I haven't bought anything since.
GOG is great, but I'm kind of invested in Steam's ecosystem, Steam Streaming app installed on my phone and Android TV, multiple Steam controllers, and I take advantage of the cloud saves. I know you can get most of that working with non-steam games with a little bit of work, but I normally just get my games on Steam for the convenience.
It's convenient, works, has great community features and I tend to always have money on steam made from selling stuff from other games on the community market.
Why not? Steam isn't going anywhere. If they do, they've said in the past they would attempt to unlock your games for you to keep. Ok, let's play Devil's Advocate. Steam fails and I lose all my games, SOMEHOW (not going to happen but whatever). Even if that does happen, this is PC. I'll be able to play the games I really want to.
So why should I buy on GOG? Because of self packaged installers? I dunno. I don't like buying on GOG or using GOG's client. I do like Steam and all of its functionalities. I respect GOG's service and mission goal. I hope GOG does well. I don't want to use their service. End of story.
So why should I buy on GOG? Because of self packaged installers? I dunno. I don't like buying on GOG or using GOG's client. I do like Steam and all of its functionalities. I respect GOG's service and mission goal. I hope GOG does well. I don't want to use their service. End of story.
I don't see it on that list, and it is only a small inconvenience that won't apply to everyone I suppose, but I recently discovered that the GOG version of Victor Vran doesn't support cloud saves (through Galaxy) where as the Steam version does. Seems an odd inconsistency.
Wait, what? This flew under my radar and I consider myself pretty good at catching the news, especially around things I follow.
Everyone that plays PC doesn't want DRM
But then it's not Steam and people cry and say Steam isn't DRM
But then it's not Steam and people cry and say Steam isn't DRM
GOG did a count down for their end of service, and then posted a comedy video revealing the hoax. It was very obnoxious, even worse than the terrible 'potato' portal 2 campaign on Steam.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/22/good-old-games-gets-new-relaunches/
It's not really worth the time to sell them. Takes waaaaay too much time nowadays for little money. Unless there's a new way now. I have at least 600 cards that i'd like to sell and probably more to get if I idle the games but lol not gonna do that shit. if there's an easier way again I'd love to know about it.
Main reason I don't buy on gog myself is I don't really use it. I'm too used to going to steam and most 3rd party sites offer steam keys. Also I guess drm free means I could make backups of the installers somewhere but I'm probably not gonna. If steam ever does go down i'll just have to find other sources for the games that I do still want to play. Before galaxy not having a client and auto-updates was the main thing keeping me from using GOG more.
Steam is not DRM. Steam offers DRM if developers want to implement DRM. Developers can release their games on Steam without any DRM. There are Steam releases that do not even check if Steam is running. You can disconnect from the internet, navigate to the install directory, run the EXE file, and the game will play.
Steam is great on linux. I shop on gog, but once I do whatever I have to do to get the game installed, I link it through steam since gog hasn't bothered to get galaxy out for linux. Plus there's everything valve is doing for linux. It's exciting to be a part of and I feel great supporting it. For me, steam is a no brainer.
edit: Oh i remember this thread now. I already answered before.
edit: Oh i remember this thread now. I already answered before.
Last edited:
Very few games work like this, because there is pressure from Steam fans for games to include Steamworks features like trading cards, leaderboards, etc. All of these require the DRM.
Steam is DRM, but a tiny number of games aren't fully implemented on the platform so lack steam features, the first of which is always DRM
Yeah, most of the games in my library.
From the 90s... come on, really?
People love to peddle this line, but I don't think this is true at all. Do you have an actual quote?
I like the features Steam has. And having most games in one place is nice. While there's also an option to add non-Steam games to the launcher, it doesn't get all the Steam features.
Edit: Oh it's an old thread I've already responded to.
I'm not sure they have ever specified what the measures are, but I found few screenshots from Steam support saying that.
Edit: Oh it's an old thread I've already responded to.
Last edited:
I rarely, if not never, buy a game from Steam if i know i can find it on GoG. My GoG purchases are bigger than Steam lately.
Good grief. They didn't even bother updating the GoG build in like half of those games.
