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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I just buy where a game I want is on the lowest sale at the moment, but still check if a game is properly updated on gog first, since some games haven’t been updated in a long time on gog.
Tho I try and mostly focus on old games not on steam anymore or indie titles are are updated on parity with the windows release, otherwise I prefer steam, also cause I own a legion go with bazzite installed so it’s easier to play games like that.
Gey, everyone. Thanks for your opinions. Here is what I decided to do. I will mostly buy from gog, if game isn’t on gog then from steam since after considering.
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.
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.
Gog is if you are married to your philosophical choices, Steam is if you want a platform that keeps expanding
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
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.
This is a bit complex because of the way people define own.
Technically no one but the company who developed the games own the game.
Publishers effectively own it as they usually monopolize the entire licensing control of the game.
Gamers never own but merely have the license to play. This is true even with games from long time ago. While you do own the physical disk, you only license the data inside the disk.
Some people may define ownership of a game by the fact that no one is going to take it away from you. In that way, gog does do that. Since you can download a DRM free version you can install as many times as you want for as along as you want.
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.
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.
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.
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).
I use a decision tree to determine which platform to buy from, by going down this list and selecting the first platform that fits my requirements.
- Steam: If the full game is on there, buy. If the game needs an extensive patch to provide all the content, buy from another platform.
- itch: If the full game is on there, buy.
- GOG: If the full game is on there, buy. If the game needs an extensive patch to provide all the content, buy from another platform.
- JAST USA: If the full game is on there, buy.
- DLSite: If the full game is on there, buy.
- DMM: This platform is annoying to buy from since they dislike foreigners. If the full game is on there, buy.
I primarily use Linux, and since GOG doesn’t have a native Linux version, it’s just much more convenient to use steam
Lutris has been a great platform for me to use to play my GoG games lately. Personally I like both for different reasons and like supporting both
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.
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
Check both, if the game is available on both, then I will get it on Gog.
If not, Steam it is!
I have a few games I enjoy so much that I have bought them several times, including on both Steam and Gog.
An example, back in 2004/2005 I bought Unreal Tournament 2004 on CDs, then when I found it on Steam a few years later, I bought it there as well as I wanted a modern installer, finally I found it on Gog without DRM yet another few years later and bought it there as well.
I love that game and wanted the best installer for it, especially without DRM.
Fun fact, Unreal Tournament 2004 has a native Linux version on the retail disks, you will find a bash install script in the root on one of the CDs
This is the reasonable way.
I feel you do this quite nicely. Personally I think if I had bought such an old game already on physical media decades ago, I’d just pirate it now. I can see the argument though that GOG (or Steam for that matter) delivers tweaks that make old games work on new hardware though, so that is worth paying for. Guess it all comes down to pricing, I wouldn’t be willing to pay full price for just a patch that makes it work on current systems.
I have never really pirated games myself, I was always far too worried about malware to do it.
Though, when dad was traveling in Asia back in the early 2000s he used to come back home with a shitload of games/software which most had a folder called crack in the root of the CD…
Occasionally I will prefer Steam to take advantage of Steam matchmaking
