Will you leave STEAM someday?
Good question. I currently have all. And prefer to buy on Steam as the prices are better.
But I play a lot of older games when not playing co-op / multiplayer
I hope someday we can have free GOG versions of our STEAM games...and vice versa. That will be perfect
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I hope someday we can have free GOG versions of our STEAM games
There is https://www.gog.com/connect, but only for a tiny list of games and seems was only for a limited time (requires participation from developers and publishers)
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Yes, hope that comes back someday.
They could also just give a nice discount if you already own it on another platform...everybody wins
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I like GOG and all but they have a much smaller catalog than Steam.
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That's true. But most of their games include additional bug / compatibility fixes.
If not for the STEAM community a lot of the older games will be unplayable.
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If not for the STEAM community a lot of the older games will be unplayable.
You sound like you're contradicting yourself.
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Overall, I like GOG, especially selling DRM-free games
At the moment I buy in GOG only those games that are not in Steam
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I'm a weak person... I follow Steam to death...
Ok, I might cheat with Windows Gamepass, but that doesn't count right?
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I'll think about it when we have gog-gifts-dot-com ;)
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Personally I find the whole debate about "leaving Steam" or supporting one store front over the others to be rather silly. Steam, GOG, Epic and the rest all have their pros and cons. I say just pick the best things from each, and worry about what works best for your own personal gaming experience. You're really only hurting yourself if you limit yourself to using only one store.
GOG is good for a lot of the older games, since they make sure they are patched up to run on modern systems (GOG stands for "Good Old Games", after all). For newer games, the main advantage is that you can download a DRM-free installer, if that is the sort of thing you care about. Their Galaxy 2.0 launcher is also really handy for keeping track of your collection if you have lots of games across multiple platforms (especially all of those Epic and Prime freebies).
That being said, there are a lot of features in Steam that are hard to replace (built-in DS4 support and per-game controller configuration being at the top of the list for me). You can also play most single-player games on Steam in offline mode as well, so that cuts into the "no internet required" argument for switching to GOG (although there are definitely exceptions and limitations to this).
Personally, I mostly use GOG for the launcher so I can keep track of my collection when deciding what I want to play or buy next, but add any non-Steam games that I decide to play into Steam and launch them there. That way I have all of the games I am actively playing in one place, with out-of-box controller support and all of the other Steam features that I prefer.
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No one ever leaves Steam. But you have to admit that Steam can make developers update their games to the stable GOG versions if they cared to. Its basically the same game.
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Actually, GOG license or even buy the rights to many of the old games they sell and update them themselves (or at least pay for it to be done), so those versions typically can't be sold elsewhere. That's not every game though.
I do agree that Steam could do more to ensure developers keep their games up to date in order to sell them, or at least have some sort of mechanism to warn people that a game is broken and abandoned. But I suppose that is what their refund policy is for....
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I really like GOG's approach, but whenever I start Galaxy it takes an awful lot of time before I can use it and start a game. Which is why I'm very hesitant to switch. I could just not use all the integration modules, but that would defeat the purpose of using Galaxy (at least to have all my games in one place). So... maybe one day ;)
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I've been thinking about it...a lot?
A lot of single player games work better on GOG and you can install them once and play anywhere...no internet required.
I never played games like Fallout 3, because a lot of the older games are eternally broken on STEAM. I enjoy fixing old games, but if they are already fixed on GOG, why not just enjoy them instead?
& while you think about it, here is a small giveaway
This only applies to single player games. so no I'm not leaving STEAM.
Enjoy the Poll.
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