Poll: GOG and Steam.

[Katana314]

I use both, not one or the other. I will tend towards GOG if it's available there at the same price.

 

[bombadilillo]

I prefer gog by a large margin. They have heart, something that Valve and Steam sorely lacks.

I use gog a lot, but mostly for older games.

I use GamersGate if I want a new game, seeing as they are a lot cheaper to me, and I quite like Paradox.

I use Steam for sales.

Never the less, I have 200 games on Steam, and only about 30 on gog and probably 20 on GG. Goes to show that Steam has frequent sales.

But gog is by far the better shop.

I'd never heard of GamersGate until reading your post so I decided to give it a look and I see Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition on the front page for ?2.50

Bless you sir.

OMG i have been waiting for a team sale for deus ex and invisable war. 2.50$ each...thats unbeatable ever then they go steamsale! Now thats some great prices.

 

[bombadilillo]

GOG has the structure right. Pay once, no DRM, download forever, no forced updates that requires an internet connection, no region locking, no currency scamming and most importantly: customer to company to customer trust. In other words, none of the shitty fucking bullshit Steam makes the unwashed masses endure.

Considering that one day GOG will have the same library as Steam, there is just no way as a human consumer of media to "prefer" Steam. Seriously, to hell with Steam.

Again I ask if a game has drm, like Witcher 2 which is sold on GOG, does GOG take the drm out before it sell it?

 

[TheRevanchist]

Steam. GoG for only certain games. (aka older games)

 

[anthony87]

I prefer gog by a large margin. They have heart, something that Valve and Steam sorely lacks.

I use gog a lot, but mostly for older games.

I use GamersGate if I want a new game, seeing as they are a lot cheaper to me, and I quite like Paradox.

I use Steam for sales.

Never the less, I have 200 games on Steam, and only about 30 on gog and probably 20 on GG. Goes to show that Steam has frequent sales.

But gog is by far the better shop.

I'd never heard of GamersGate until reading your post so I decided to give it a look and I see Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition on the front page for ?2.50

Bless you sir.

OMG i have been waiting for a team sale for deus ex and invisable war. 2.50$ each...thats unbeatable ever then they go steamsale! Now thats some great prices.

I paid for the game and downloaded it but the site doesn't contain any serial key to activate the game so you'd wanna find a keygen or something if you're going to get it.

 

[bombadilillo]

I prefer gog by a large margin. They have heart, something that Valve and Steam sorely lacks.

I use gog a lot, but mostly for older games.

I use GamersGate if I want a new game, seeing as they are a lot cheaper to me, and I quite like Paradox.

I use Steam for sales.

Never the less, I have 200 games on Steam, and only about 30 on gog and probably 20 on GG. Goes to show that Steam has frequent sales.

But gog is by far the better shop.

I'd never heard of GamersGate until reading your post so I decided to give it a look and I see Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition on the front page for ?2.50

Bless you sir.

OMG i have been waiting for a team sale for deus ex and invisable war. 2.50$ each...thats unbeatable ever then they go steamsale! Now thats some great prices.

I paid for the game and downloaded it but the site doesn't contain any serial key to activate the game so you'd wanna find a keygen or something if you're going to get it.

Yeah same thing happened to me before I read this... Invisible war works fine. Site says it will be getting new serial keys soon. I wont use a keygen when I just bought it legitimately. Oh well. 2.50 baby.

 

[bombadilillo]

Update. They CD keys exist now, got it going earlier today! so you can activate it for reals.

 

[Danceofmasks]

GOG has the structure right. Pay once, no DRM, download forever, no forced updates that requires an internet connection, no region locking, no currency scamming and most importantly: customer to company to customer trust. In other words, none of the shitty fucking bullshit Steam makes the unwashed masses endure.

Considering that one day GOG will have the same library as Steam, there is just no way as a human consumer of media to "prefer" Steam. Seriously, to hell with Steam.

Again I ask if a game has drm, like Witcher 2 which is sold on GOG, does GOG take the drm out before it sell it?

The GoG version of Witcher 2 was sold without DRM.

Since then, every other version of Witcher 2 has had DRM removed (via patch 1.1), except for the Steam version .. which uses Steam as DRM.