Reject DRM embrace GOG
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Wouldn’t Steam, with TF2, be the most costumer oriented?
On being customer oriented on the other hand, Steam could use some improvement.
All those Counter Strike skins, too…
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Who made that spelling and the pronunciation though? Seems like two separate people. Gets me every time.
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Blizz’s battle.net or whatever it’s called nowadays.
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battle net, it’s blizzard’s launcher
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Gog doesn’t have lower prices for poorer regions. Paying 20-50% more for noDRM is no-no for me.
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Having worked in an international environment for over a decade makes me 99% sure that OP speaks Portuguese.
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Old? I got Silksong from them on release day.
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Official client and support for my platform of choice is a big plus only Steam bothers to have.
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Gog doesn’t have lower prices for poorer regions. Paying 20-50% more for noDRM is no-no for me.
I love the idea of GoG, but it’s also the only client that forces me to pay in local currency with local taxes when I travel too. Have to use a VPN and change my time zone in settings to get it to let me pay in USD. Steam does it based on billing address and card.
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Old? I got Silksong from them on release day.
Their acronym is “Good Old Games”, so I suspect it’s a play on that.
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Meh, Proton alone makes me like Steam a bit more than GOG. Itch.io is also nice, but for some shitty reasons, they have some problems with my debit card. While it is nice to support small devs, I hate to support Peter Thiel the absolute piece of human garbage with my payment.
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Official client and support for my platform of choice is a big plus only Steam bothers to have.
Shit buggy client you can’t customize and with integrated ram-eating webbrowser you are forced to launch to play the game. Vs. native hubs that integrate GoG, itch & co seamlessly, setup and runners and all.
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Wouldn’t Steam, with TF2, be the most costumer oriented?
On being customer oriented on the other hand, Steam could use some improvement.
Akcthually you can publish drm free games on steam, it’s just that you cannot download an installer. But for some games you can just copy the folder and it’s going to work even without steam. Also GOG enforces drm free games
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Their acronym is “Good Old Games”, so I suspect it’s a play on that.
They were Good Old Games for about 4 years until 2012, when they started selling modern games and rebranded to just GOG, dropping the whole “old games” moniker.
(Yeah, I’m also old. I was there when they rebranded, but I thought it was recently, around 2020!)
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I’m confused as to how people with English as a second language even learn the word “costumer”. It’s reasonably obscure!
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Shit buggy client you can’t customize and with integrated ram-eating webbrowser you are forced to launch to play the game. Vs. native hubs that integrate GoG, itch & co seamlessly, setup and runners and all.
Eh, Heroic isn’t free of fault either; e.g. when it offered to auto-install REDmod along with CP2077 I couldn’t launch the game because the REDmod it installed was completely broken. I’d say that Steam is slightly less buggy than Heroic overall, both of them being pretty damn solid. Haven’t used Lutris much because, well, Steam and Heroic work well enough.
Would a leaner Steam be nice? Yeah, but reliable, lean cross-platform GUI toolkits aren’t easy to come by.
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Eh, Heroic isn’t free of fault either; e.g. when it offered to auto-install REDmod along with CP2077 I couldn’t launch the game because the REDmod it installed was completely broken. I’d say that Steam is slightly less buggy than Heroic overall, both of them being pretty damn solid. Haven’t used Lutris much because, well, Steam and Heroic work well enough.
Would a leaner Steam be nice? Yeah, but reliable, lean cross-platform GUI toolkits aren’t easy to come by.
I use heroic to install and have the setting on to auto add them to my steam library
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Meh, Proton alone makes me like Steam a bit more than GOG. Itch.io is also nice, but for some shitty reasons, they have some problems with my debit card. While it is nice to support small devs, I hate to support Peter Thiel the absolute piece of human garbage with my payment.
I’m on Linux as well and I just use heroic for my gog library
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Eh, Heroic isn’t free of fault either; e.g. when it offered to auto-install REDmod along with CP2077 I couldn’t launch the game because the REDmod it installed was completely broken. I’d say that Steam is slightly less buggy than Heroic overall, both of them being pretty damn solid. Haven’t used Lutris much because, well, Steam and Heroic work well enough.
Would a leaner Steam be nice? Yeah, but reliable, lean cross-platform GUI toolkits aren’t easy to come by.
I thought more of Lutris and GameHub, forgot about Heroic. There’s also Legendary and Cartridge but i don’t know them.
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Official client and support for my platform of choice is a big plus only Steam bothers to have.
I have recently realized that I could claim tons of games from amazon with prime subscription that are claimed in GOG. And it seems GOG has some games available for Linux. There usually are couple of download links for different OSes
