Redpill me on GoG v Steam

Redpill me on GoG v Steam.

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GoG
>pay for a licence to play a game
Steam
>pay for a licence to play a game
Piratebay
>get a licence to play a game for free

Steam has games, GoG has consumer-friendly business practices.

steam has more games and more features

with both of them, you dont actually own the game

if a developer chooses to use steamworks, which allows achievements and other features, the game will require steam to launch if the steam-works.DLL is not deletable

Steam is just your overall gaming friend. Based Gabe watches for us

>with both of them, you dont actually own the game
You never actually own a game. But with gog, they're DRM-free, which is the next best thing.

Don't forget
>Piratebay
>Freely run a javascript bitcoin miner for them while you browse

Trust the beard

Steam has more games but GoG has older games and no DRM or other bullshit

and with steam, many are DRM-free.
it depends on the game and if it uses steamworks

Sup Forums has some serious short term memory loss

if you have the files to run the game and the files are on your hard drive and you own your hard drive than you own the game

Develop your hypothesis

>many are DRM-free
This is a blatant lie. DRM-free games on steam are in the vast minority
>and if it uses steamworks
Steamworks and Steam's DRM are completely unrelated.

No, you're in posession of the game files. You still don't own that shit. You have a licence to use it.

artifact and epistle 3

to me gog is a companion of steam for nice classic games, cdpr games, and the 0.00000000000001% of crowdfunded games that are actually decent

its not a lie u retarded GOG shill.
there are games on steam that can be run just from the .exe, without steam. just like GOG.

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>paying for digital media
You cannot be more of a cuck.

the steam client is drm all by itself. I can download the installer for a game from gog and put it on a disc or a usb drive and install it on whatever computer I want. you can't do that with steam. if a game is availible on both gog and steam there's literally no reason to buy it on steam.

name 5

you need to use a web browser and login to download a GOG game, barely any different than downloading steam and logging in to download a steam game

steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

and those arent even all of them

Some people think it's virtous not to get games on steam even though it's ez as fuck.

GoG is good for older games since they patch shit, or run a script for Dosbox to get it to run on modern systems.

The thought of that is scary

but then you have to have steam on your computer to run steam games
gog you can run them, copy them, run the copy, etc

>not using qbittorrent to search
pathetic 2bh

half of that list is duplicates

90% of steam is DRM

Name all the times GOG tried to push paid mods on people and CD Projekt Red announced a project and didn't have the nuts to cancel it.

I think I know who my money's going to.

recommend games on GGO

how dumb are you?

like I just siad, there are tons of games that dont need Steam

SWAT 4

Fallout New Vegas

>install steam
>install game
>put steam in offline for one-time activion
>every game just run directly from client, with or without internet connect - appart from many that run directly through their own .exe file
Pls

Steam is fallen from grace company that became ruled by greed due to having a really really shit corporate structure ruled by circlejerking.
GoG is CDPR, and are more passion oriented enough that they're willing to publicly admit DRM is just something to wank off old jewish shareholders who don't understand anything period.

>GGO

The best way to buy games on PC (in the event that all storefronts currently have the same price) is:
>Check Humble Store for Steam Key+DRM Free Version.
>If previous step is unavailable, check GoG for DRM Free.
>If GoG has no DRM Free version, then think about buying it on Steam.

one dominates the market, one fits in its niche. i'm buying oldies on gog, it's good to have oldies prepared for modern os out of the box. i also got vallhalla here because it felt embarrassing to get it on steam

i like the fact that gog managed to pull off some kind of success. it feels nice to see company that bases its marketing on being fair and wins.

GoG focuses more on older games.
The ten of fans of these games wholeheartedly endorse GoG.
The modern games they sell are DRM free so you can "demo" them if you wish.

>GOG version of Dragon's Dogma needs Galaxy to access the pawn servers
So much for non-mandatory client

GoG is pointless. Steam has better sales, more games, gives you free money for cards and has a better community

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Steam has a better refund system as well, even if it didn't always have it. You can refund a game simply for the reason "it's not fun". Can't do that on GOG.

Okay but you don't actually get a license to play the game when you pirate it. You get the software and you use it without a license. Dummy.

Steam lets me pay at Oxxo (spic store) and GoG doesn´t, and as someone who doesn´t have any sort of card, I choose Steam.

I once did an experiment with the Steam games I happened to have installed at the time. I started trying to start them up directly from the .exe, and took note of which ones worked and which ones attempted to open Steam instead. This experiment was done with a small sample of games, so it was never meant to be representative of Steam's entire catalog, but it ended up being the case that Steam was actually required by most of the games I tried to start. Interestingly, I think Half-Life 2 (or maybe it was the first Half-Life) started up without the Steam client running, despite being a Valve game.

Anyway, people immediately accused me of being a GOG shill and cherry-picking games that had DRM, even though that's not what I did. They were essentially random, but, again, they were a small sample of games I happened to be playing at the time.

>but then you have to have steam on your computer to run steam games

No, the other guy's right. Some games will start without the Steam client.

So, for those games, it's literally
>download from GOG using web browser
versus
>download from Steam using Steam client
and that's it.

But I suppose Steam is slightly more intrusive even in this case, because they're basically forcing you to download the game with their proprietary web browser rather than Firefox/Chrome/etc.

The first half-life probably, given that it's older than steam.

>steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
>have to manually delete/edit files
>old games that used to have serial keys
>the Linux version is DRM-free
>Game won't save without Steam
>have to get DRM-free version directly from the developer instead
>...
WOOOOOOOOOOAH. Steam is really pushing DRM-free, huh?

>Oxxo
>Went to one once
>its nice Mexico gets a store with a parking lot and such.
>go inside, smells like feces
Figures.

>a fairly long list of games
>only a few of them require workarounds like deleting files
>only a few of them have weird little notes like "game won't save"

oh ok wew

for a second I thought your evidence was actually supporting your argument

>your argument
My argument is that Steam is utter shit for DRM-free gaming and you are retarded for thinking otherwise. A good amount of games on that list aren't even really DRM-free or require workarounds. Most of these that aren't blatant shovelware and wouldn't get rejected on GOG are available there with better compatibility on top of that. Kill yourself, steamcuck.

how many of those games can you buy, download, and play without ever installing steam on your computer? checkmate pcbros.

steam should really have a DRM-free section so these GOG shills could die off already