this. the ONLY reason was their bullshit "you get free games only launchable via the launcher" and only someone with little self respect would fall for that gambit.
GoGs standalone installers are just fine
For huge games that get updates you'd want to use a launcher to avoid annoyances in downloading shit manually, like with bg3. Also games that have a bunch of dlc which would all need to be reinstalled like dead cells
>Have 100GB game installed >Update is the whole thing over again >if the installer is 90GB, you need 190 GB available at installation time
It's not complicated
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Have 100GB game installed >Update is the whole thing over again >if the installer is 90GB, you need 190 GB available at installation time
It's not complicated
It's worse than that. The installers don't just take up space, they use additional Temp space during installation.
Some games, such as Serious Sam 4, have almost all their assets in one big 40GB file. This means you need:
- 40GB for the installer
- 40GB temp space while unpacking
- 40GB for the actual game folder
So you need about 120GB of space to install a 40GB game. If the installer runs out of temp space during install, you get some weird error.
It's better to unpack the bin files manually. There is a program that does that, I've forgotten the name. You'd still need 80GB though.
Last time I used gog I foldered one of their downloaded games and it made me use the launcher. how do you turn it off?
In the end I discovered the gog version of the game was outdated so it was never used and the launcher deleted.
>Isn't GOG's launcher ass?
No. It's actually better than Steam's. And allow for user control and doesn't force the user or deny things on its own volition the way Steam does.
I bought a lot of gog games, the main issue is not the launcher is that GOG releases gets treated as second class by publisher/devs for newer games, you never get proper support and get important updates later. Some games on GOG are still years out of date with Steam. Dragons Dogma is still missing some minor patches. Now its not all bad, if you are buying an older game it often better to buy it on gog because it just werks, instead of having to download fixes and mess with settings yourself, the only exception to this is normally soundtracks in older games like Quake that might have to be patched by a fan patch, but those are always copyright issues that Steam also has.
quake soundtrack has to be patcvhed in because its author had it written in contract that his work will be distributed ONLY in the lossless format of audio cd.
publisher could have solved that issue but decided to just release the game digitally without it. and its this way on every platform. not just gog.
Yeah that's what i mean, steam also has it. Its kind of annoying because the downloads i found dont have the right naming convention so i had to name the files properly, but after that and getting the fan patch, it works fine. I didn't like yhe game but it does work great.
Oh I didn't know they had Dragon's Dogma. I bought it from a store and it registered with Steam. I don't think it will work with GOG. That's another problem with it, you can buy a game but it won't support GOG.
Was the DVD with a Steam code or a GOG code. If you have a steam code it will work only for the Steam server. I am guessing that you got a steam code, unless you're talking about the console version of the game??????
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Anonymous
Only Steam, I don't think they ever sold anything else but Steam. That's the main problem with these storefronts. GOG is in their own special little corner and you can buy games that don't work with it while they always work with Steam.
>every single game icon ruined by their dogshit circle >launcher sucks ass >newest launched game on gog is from like 1995 vs steam's actually current releases >tries to be epig games but instead of giveaways for actual games all they give is obscure and unknown games from the 1970s
>every single game icon ruined by their dogshit circle
You can just go to the game folder and make a shortcut to the actual exe if you want the original icon.
theres little reason to backup your gog games except if youre a doomer that expects the internet to vanish at some point (and then good luck with still having electricity to play your games)
the important thing about gog is that it makes devs release offline no-drm versions of their games
>theres little reason to backup your gog games
There is literally, figuratively, and metaphorically no reason to use GOG if you don't back up your installers. Without that, it's literally just worse Steam.
>the video game store
vs >the video game store for older stuff but with fixes and compatability patches no wait actually we're a video game store too, mostly
Gamers don't actually care about having no drm. They just want there to be nothing so they can pirate. >b-b-but i do
The small size of GoG speaks for itself
100% false shit. I have shadow of war on gog and it is literally the pirated version with no access to the online features (which is like 90% of the game).
Same reason why they pulled Hitman from their store, they couldn't patch out the always online shit and people threatened to sue.
Gog is literally a pirate site with pricetags
Steam was first and gets more marketing from companies promoting it every time they release their game through Steam.
Same reason that people freaked out about the PS3 controller changing, same reason that people still tolerate the Xbox controller, same reason that established political parties are viewed as trustworthy.
>No DRM >Not tied to monolithic webshit, so you can run without a client or sub in your own solution
Gamers don't actually care about having no drm. They just want there to be nothing so they can pirate. >b-b-but i do
The small size of GoG speaks for itself
Normalgays tend to not care about that sort of thing and they still make up the majority of the market. >The small size of GoG speaks for itself
Yeah, same as the Linux install base. Normalgays do not care about the quality of the experience as long as they are told it is convenient and that it will let them talk to their friends about it to signal status and groupthink.
>muh DRM
is how people cope with the knowledge that their physical games will inevitably wear and stop working
If there isn't any DRM, then you just copy the whole thing to a new storage medium before it stops working or even keep a 3-2-1 backup scheme.
Name another platform that provides modding, forums, user reviews, network play, and free updates.
Monolithic design is bad and discourages getting rid of defective components.
It just werks.
You need to educate yourself on what you want and how to accomplish it, as opposed to being spoonfed through marketing and default options, but it works well for everything other than the holdouts that are either extremely niche pre-2000s Japanese eroge, or which deliberately want an audience that will uncritically agree to draconian measures like baited subscription services, vendor lock-in or malware in potentia.
>What compelling reason does one have to use GOG? Especially if they already have a bunch of shit on Steam?
DRM-free installation files. This is why I made a full switch to it. >It's a niche place for old games.
Not anymore. They've been offering new games too for a couple of years now.
it came first and steam is more than a store front. steam will never fall unless gaben fricks up badly which i doubt since he knows the community very well.
It turns out that the number of people that actually care about DRM is actually significantly less than you thought, and Steam is the least assholish of the platforms that use it. Also EGS can go frick itself.
Because GOG doesn't have nearly the selection that Steam does. If I want to play a game and it's only on Steam, and this is a persistent pattern, then obviously Steam is going to be more attractive to most people. Few people are so principled that they will permanently abstain from playing a game that looks fun because it isn't DRM-free.
One wants your shekels and achieves the shekel retrieval by giving you a service that's worth said shekels.
The other wants your shekels and tries to achieve it by pretending to be your friend and your bro and totally on your side and looking out for you while taking money from satanic israelites.
Guess which one is which.
steam is more israeli, which companies like. it's not better, it just lets you do shit in 1 click, which the tech-illiterates love (which is how goyflix got a leg up over the competition) >did Steam win?
gog is doing fine though.
>Name another platform that provides bloat
no thanks. games are good enough >updates
you download them like always >network play
centralized servers and matchmaking are cancer. bring back server browsers. >modding
mods are hosted on 3rd party websites (e.g. nexushomosexuals, gaybanana). what the frick are you talking about?
because the vast majority of gamers do not care about drm free games, but they care about having all their games available in one place neatly organized, and that is only steam at this point
>the vast majority of gamers do not care about drm free games
they don't care about DRM until they go "WTF WHY DOES MY GAME NOT LAUNCH ANYMORE THIS IS AN OUTRAGE"
moron
>bloat
moron detected >you download them like always
automatically? >centralized servers and matchmaking are cancer. bring back server browsers.
Steam has a server browser, it's mostly just used for source games though.
Additionally, Steamworks is not limited to servers and matchmaking, it can also serve has the handshake in peer to peer games so that randoms don't get your IP. >mods are hosted on 3rd party websites (e.g. nexushomosexuals, gaybanana). what the frick are you talking about?
No third-party programs or obtuse guides required.
>social media bullshit is part of gaming
have a nice day >defending automatic updates
have a nice day you tool holy shit >Steam has a server browser, it's mostly just used for source games though.
then it's worthless. community servers >>>>>> centralized garbage >the handshake in peer to peer games so that randoms don't get your IP. >OH NO MY IP ADDRESS THE THING THAT COMPUTERS USE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER WHAT WILL I DO
have a nice day >No third-party programs or obtuse guides required. >I love nanny corporation telling me what I can and can't have on my hard drive
have a nice day.
reminder that when the fat israelite steps down, steam will become a den of israelitery the likes of which the world has never known
media bullshit
Confirmed moron, you do not want to know anything about a game before you buy it nor do you want to discuss it with other players to learn more about the games you like. >have a nice day you tool holy shit
Not an argument either >then it's worthless. community servers >>>>>> centralized garbage
Black person it only shows you community servers >>OH NO MY IP ADDRESS THE THING THAT COMPUTERS USE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER WHAT WILL I DO
An IP can be exploited for the purpose of various cyber attacks, whether it be from or against you. >I love nanny corporation telling me what I can and can't have on my hard drive
Strawman, not an argument. >reminder that when the fat israelite steps down, steam will become a den of israelitery the likes of which the world has never known
From what we've heard, he's very hands off these days, so it's not going to change.
because the vast majority of gamers do not care about drm free games, but they care about having all their games available in one place neatly organized, and that is only steam at this point
Shit like denuvo shouldn't even be legal. And if you or I tried to develop something like denuvo to ship with our games. It likely actually wouldn't be legal.
There is an unironic double standard here. And yet people, even on Ganker, will defend shit like denuvo.
Publishers want DRM to protect sales first month after launch and Steam is very convenient. GoG is DRM free, like really, so the big hits only appear on Steam and that other store, until months or years later they put it on gog for a bit of long time revenue. This has made Steam synonous with PC gaming for those that just want to play a game right now and never research other options.
Steam had iconic PC games as a back bone. Valve was a dev first, and people LOVED valve back in the day. They were considered one of the divine developer studios at the time.
I install my gog games in win7 and then dual boot to Debian to run them using Proton.
In Steam, it's a matter of clicking Games => "Add a non-Steam game to my library". And then enable Proton in the compatibility tab and whatever launch flags you need for Proton games. I'm using Proton-GE by the way.
I do this for games that don't run on win7, games I want to play with my (non-win7 supported) controller, or unity games because they trigger blue screens with the graphics driver I'm using (I don't know why).
Literally what's wrong with this? Obviously Steam only tracks how many people have a game open and not what's happening inside, that would be a nightmare.
I don't disagree that Steam should deal with bots farming boxes in CSGO, DOTA, TF2, etc.
That other post was about Steam "lying about player numbers". Are you moronic?
A company such as GOG can't unilaterally overrule copyright law.
They have to forbid you to share the games for legal reasons, but they go out of their way to make sure they can't stop you, by providing offline installers and signing them. They're not even watermarked with your customer ID so nothing is stopping you from sharing them anyway.
Frick you, if they truly cared for "ownership" the games would work like crypto, with unique id, encryption and such. You would be able to share them, sell them, destroy them even
>Gog defense force
I don't give a shit about the company, I'm just explaining why your college freshman ideology doesn't work in the real world.
GOG doesn't own the copyright of the games they sell, so it's not up to them to do any of that ancap crypto shit.
Whenever you think of buying a game on Steam, check if it's on gog first, so you can safely pirate it instead, without worrying about viruses.
The statements you underlined aren't mutually contradictory. Is this zoomer reading comprehension in action or just attention begging due to mental illness?
>Why did Steam win?
It didn't. What you want to ask is ''Why is steam bigger?'' and the simple answer is that they were first and monopolized the market. I personally switched to GOG years ago. Steam is cancer.
You still don't own shit. But it's a good first step towards real freedom, when all games have the source code available under a Free license, and all assets have a permissive CC license as well.
Steam has improved itself as a program so much to the point I'd even recommend people to install it even if they don't even buy games from it. Most of its detractors are just people who don't actually realize its full potential, or argue against the use of system resources not knowing it has a low performance setting you can toggle on.
Steam Input alone is enough of a sale yet you see people still argue in favor of programs like ds4windows, where steam itself offers much more options, community layouts, and complete customization over what each and every one of your keys and buttons do.
Valve has done so much for the linux gaming community too in their quest to get rid of windows as the enslaving main platform of PC.
It's actually ridiculous how much they have contributed to growing PC gaming as a market, the only thing they'd be lacking in their launcher at this point is a "quick capture" feature to record clips such as nvidia shadowplay or the share button in playstation to achieve complete console parity.
>Valve has done so much for the linux gaming community too in their quest to get rid of windows as the enslaving main platform of PC.
they are already enslaving linuxgays as we speak >Steam Input alone is enough of a sale yet you see people still argue in favor of programs like ds4windows, where steam itself offers much more options, community layouts, and complete customization over what each and every one of your keys and buttons do.
this is a fault of microsoft, not ds4windows
on linux its plug and play and you dont need a garbage closed source DRM launcher that consumes 500+mb ram in the bg
Even though it's created a somewhat awkward 80/20 split between my Steam library, I still buy from GOG whenever possible, just out of principle of being DRM free. Also the 30 day full refund policy with no playtime limit is really nice.
I'd also add that GOG Galaxy is better than Steam for me personally since it is a lot less ''game facebook'' and more just my personal library of games. Another thing i like about GOG Galaxy is that i am not bombarded with ads every time i boot it up. Has all the functionality i want. Galaxy lets me: >turn off game tracking >turn off achievements >roll back trough multiple versions of the game >have minimalistic UI
People that like Steam are the same people that use their Windows/Linux as installed without tweaking it.
>just my personal library of games
just set the library as your landing page >i am not bombarded with ads every time i boot it up
you can disable announcements >turn off game tracking
yeah, you can't >turn off achievements
you can >roll back trough multiple versions of the game
not as convenient, but steamcmd exists >People that like Steam are the same people that use their Windows/Linux as installed without tweaking it.
? what does this have to do with the client you use, neither provide any way to it, it's just a few predetermined options to choose from
That's completely fine if I'm pirating, but the whole point of paying money is that you remove all friction from the consumer. Publishers can't complain about Steam being so dominant or people pirating if they're going to be even lazier.
>americans mentioned out of nowhere
I know you yurotards can't handle all that freedom but at least try not to b jelly and seeth every single minute of your short life at how bigger our everything is.
Talk to the publishers owning the rights to the games. GOG try to bring as many games as they can to the platform. It is up to the publishers if they choose to put their games on GOG. Sadly Steam has been trying to stop as many publishers from releasing on GOG as they could. If GOG had all the games Steam had a lot of people would leave Steam. DRM free is simply better in the long run.
>Sadly Steam has been trying to stop as many publishers from releasing on GOG as they could.
No? Care to cite your source? >If GOG had all the games Steam had a lot of people would leave Steam.
Never mind all the quality of life features they provide to developers and user
>has no argument, accuses others of having none
the shill special
5 months ago
Anonymous
>called out >"a-actually YOU don't have an argument!"
I do have one, right here
>Sadly Steam has been trying to stop as many publishers from releasing on GOG as they could.
No? Care to cite your source? >If GOG had all the games Steam had a lot of people would leave Steam.
Never mind all the quality of life features they provide to developers and user
You replied to it, you're the one who doesn't
>quality of life >steam
are you a paid shill or just a dumb drone spewing the marketing that has been fed up his throat?
, you're the one who started screaming "shill" and "drone" with nothing to support.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>quality of life >steam
are you a paid shill or just a dumb drone regurgitating the marketing kool-aid that has heen poured down his throat?
Steam had multiplayer and a whole social and community aspect.
Steam might as well be a Social network at this point.
People use it because all of their friends are on it.
GOG has no killer titles like CS,r DOTA 2, or Fortnite, and, like another anon said earlier, game devs treat GOG users like second-class citizens.
It's that simple.
No, because they work in Linux.
Also, Steam will probably keep working in Windows 7 until AI eats us all anyway. Just without official support.
But we'll see.
>2024 >still being afraid of Windows 10
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Just because everyone else gave into human rights violations doesn't mean you should too.
Some people like the idea that they are constantly being monitored, either by a god, or a government, or a computer program. So gog obliged them and made a launcher. I think it even gives you an achievement when it thinks you did a good job in the video game.
I haven't played Armored Core 6 ever since they rolled out the updates that nerfed the bosses and fricked with the game.
And Steam was holding my game hostage. Refusing to boot the game up unless I updated first. So I didn't play the game.
If the game was on GOG I could have ignored the updates as much as I wanted.
Why do people suck Steam's dick so hard?
The annoying thing about gog vs steam is for coop multipolayer games sometimes devs will split the players so gog users only match with gog and steam with steam (example dying light) so it makes sense to buy the game on steam because there will be more people there
They started as Good Old Games. They didn't try hard enough with marketing to change that view in general public. Lacked proper launcher and some gay community functions that steam has.
Isn't GOG's launcher ass? That's all I ever hear about in these debates.
You're right, but I still don't know why anyone would use a launcher with GOG.
this. the ONLY reason was their bullshit "you get free games only launchable via the launcher" and only someone with little self respect would fall for that gambit.
GoGs standalone installers are just fine
For huge games that get updates you'd want to use a launcher to avoid annoyances in downloading shit manually, like with bg3. Also games that have a bunch of dlc which would all need to be reinstalled like dead cells
What's wrong with downloading shit manually?
It's a chore, requires more space, and take longer than delta downloads
>Inb4 "I don't care"
Good for you
>Good for you
Thanks anon
>requires more space,
Literally how
>Have 100GB game installed
>Update is the whole thing over again
>if the installer is 90GB, you need 190 GB available at installation time
It's not complicated
It's worse than that. The installers don't just take up space, they use additional Temp space during installation.
Some games, such as Serious Sam 4, have almost all their assets in one big 40GB file. This means you need:
- 40GB for the installer
- 40GB temp space while unpacking
- 40GB for the actual game folder
So you need about 120GB of space to install a 40GB game. If the installer runs out of temp space during install, you get some weird error.
It's better to unpack the bin files manually. There is a program that does that, I've forgotten the name. You'd still need 80GB though.
Last time I used gog I foldered one of their downloaded games and it made me use the launcher. how do you turn it off?
In the end I discovered the gog version of the game was outdated so it was never used and the launcher deleted.
Paradox's games. Makes it easier to update them and their dozens of DLCs.
>Isn't GOG's launcher ass?
No. It's actually better than Steam's. And allow for user control and doesn't force the user or deny things on its own volition the way Steam does.
>gog
>launcher
I bought a lot of gog games, the main issue is not the launcher is that GOG releases gets treated as second class by publisher/devs for newer games, you never get proper support and get important updates later. Some games on GOG are still years out of date with Steam. Dragons Dogma is still missing some minor patches. Now its not all bad, if you are buying an older game it often better to buy it on gog because it just werks, instead of having to download fixes and mess with settings yourself, the only exception to this is normally soundtracks in older games like Quake that might have to be patched by a fan patch, but those are always copyright issues that Steam also has.
quake soundtrack has to be patcvhed in because its author had it written in contract that his work will be distributed ONLY in the lossless format of audio cd.
publisher could have solved that issue but decided to just release the game digitally without it. and its this way on every platform. not just gog.
Yeah that's what i mean, steam also has it. Its kind of annoying because the downloads i found dont have the right naming convention so i had to name the files properly, but after that and getting the fan patch, it works fine. I didn't like yhe game but it does work great.
Oh I didn't know they had Dragon's Dogma. I bought it from a store and it registered with Steam. I don't think it will work with GOG. That's another problem with it, you can buy a game but it won't support GOG.
GOG has their own Dragon's Dogma server.
But can I use the DVD I bought with it or do I have to buy the game again?
Was the DVD with a Steam code or a GOG code. If you have a steam code it will work only for the Steam server. I am guessing that you got a steam code, unless you're talking about the console version of the game??????
Only Steam, I don't think they ever sold anything else but Steam. That's the main problem with these storefronts. GOG is in their own special little corner and you can buy games that don't work with it while they always work with Steam.
>caring about a fricking game launcher
No wonder steam cultists are morons who can't double click on an exe
Same with epic but people still buy from there for some reason
Steam was there first and had time to establish habits.
Also it has exclusive mods from Black folk who only upload on the workshop
Bullshit, it works perfectly fine and you don't have to launch it to play your games which automatically makes it better than every other launcher.
>every single game icon ruined by their dogshit circle
>launcher sucks ass
>newest launched game on gog is from like 1995 vs steam's actually current releases
>tries to be epig games but instead of giveaways for actual games all they give is obscure and unknown games from the 1970s
>launcher
found your problem.
you run games by clicking the shortcut on your desktop
Zoomers don't know what files are
Computers still have download folders so they certainly do.
>every single game icon ruined by their dogshit circle
You can just go to the game folder and make a shortcut to the actual exe if you want the original icon.
>you can go out of your way to unfrick the fuglyness
how about they just don't make it fugly in the first place?
It came first, is easier to use, and has a wider selection with better sales.
GOG is better if you're computer literate and back your shit up locally but most people aren't and don't.
theres little reason to backup your gog games except if youre a doomer that expects the internet to vanish at some point (and then good luck with still having electricity to play your games)
the important thing about gog is that it makes devs release offline no-drm versions of their games
>theres little reason to backup your gog games
There is literally, figuratively, and metaphorically no reason to use GOG if you don't back up your installers. Without that, it's literally just worse Steam.
no its not
you can play completely offilne, hell you can even start the games without the launcher
>the video game store
vs
>the video game store for older stuff but with fixes and compatability patches no wait actually we're a video game store too, mostly
gee i wonder
steam bought out publishers to have their newer games only on their platform
fricking gabe sweeney
Since when was Tim Sweeney working for Valve?
Steam was there first
Gog too much time to become a general store and has a much more limited selection as a result
I don't always buy video games, but when I do, I buy them from GOG.
What compelling reason does one have to use GOG? Especially if they already have a bunch of shit on Steam? It's a niche place for old games.
no DRM
Gamers don't actually care about having no drm. They just want there to be nothing so they can pirate.
>b-b-but i do
The small size of GoG speaks for itself
>muh DRM
is how people cope with the knowledge that their physical games will inevitably wear and stop working
That might matter you to and me, but it doesn't matter to most people. How strongly do you feel about this? Are you using Windows to access GOG?
Also no gaems because all new games come with DRM.
100% false shit. I have shadow of war on gog and it is literally the pirated version with no access to the online features (which is like 90% of the game).
Same reason why they pulled Hitman from their store, they couldn't patch out the always online shit and people threatened to sue.
Gog is literally a pirate site with pricetags
rise of the triad came with a cd key for the online part
Most people are willing to give up freedom for ease of use, just how it is.
Steam was first and gets more marketing from companies promoting it every time they release their game through Steam.
Same reason that people freaked out about the PS3 controller changing, same reason that people still tolerate the Xbox controller, same reason that established political parties are viewed as trustworthy.
>No DRM
>Not tied to monolithic webshit, so you can run without a client or sub in your own solution
Normalgays tend to not care about that sort of thing and they still make up the majority of the market.
>The small size of GoG speaks for itself
Yeah, same as the Linux install base. Normalgays do not care about the quality of the experience as long as they are told it is convenient and that it will let them talk to their friends about it to signal status and groupthink.
If there isn't any DRM, then you just copy the whole thing to a new storage medium before it stops working or even keep a 3-2-1 backup scheme.
Monolithic design is bad and discourages getting rid of defective components.
>Linux
>quality
>good experience
It just werks.
You need to educate yourself on what you want and how to accomplish it, as opposed to being spoonfed through marketing and default options, but it works well for everything other than the holdouts that are either extremely niche pre-2000s Japanese eroge, or which deliberately want an audience that will uncritically agree to draconian measures like baited subscription services, vendor lock-in or malware in potentia.
>What compelling reason does one have to use GOG? Especially if they already have a bunch of shit on Steam?
DRM-free installation files. This is why I made a full switch to it.
>It's a niche place for old games.
Not anymore. They've been offering new games too for a couple of years now.
Poles are too busy transitioning
it came first and steam is more than a store front. steam will never fall unless gaben fricks up badly which i doubt since he knows the community very well.
It turns out that the number of people that actually care about DRM is actually significantly less than you thought, and Steam is the least assholish of the platforms that use it. Also EGS can go frick itself.
>EGS out of nowhere
lol? steamies are mindbroken kek
Sales
steam allows their users customize their profile like they want to customize their bodies
is that why they're all troons?
Because GOG doesn't have nearly the selection that Steam does. If I want to play a game and it's only on Steam, and this is a persistent pattern, then obviously Steam is going to be more attractive to most people. Few people are so principled that they will permanently abstain from playing a game that looks fun because it isn't DRM-free.
One wants your shekels and achieves the shekel retrieval by giving you a service that's worth said shekels.
The other wants your shekels and tries to achieve it by pretending to be your friend and your bro and totally on your side and looking out for you while taking money from satanic israelites.
Guess which one is which.
>tries to achieve it by pretending to be your friend and your bro and totally on your side
gabensisters...
>hyuk hyuk get it I said no u
>the guy rambling about israelites and satan complains about bad argumentation
that's rich
>i-it's not real i-if I stop noticing things!
NPC.
GOG will win windows 8 and prior gays
GOG is better God bless piracy
never used Steam
steam is more israeli, which companies like. it's not better, it just lets you do shit in 1 click, which the tech-illiterates love (which is how goyflix got a leg up over the competition)
>did Steam win?
gog is doing fine though.
Name another platform that provides modding, forums, user reviews, network play, and free updates.
>Name another platform that provides bloat
no thanks. games are good enough
>updates
you download them like always
>network play
centralized servers and matchmaking are cancer. bring back server browsers.
>modding
mods are hosted on 3rd party websites (e.g. nexushomosexuals, gaybanana). what the frick are you talking about?
>the vast majority of gamers do not care about drm free games
they don't care about DRM until they go "WTF WHY DOES MY GAME NOT LAUNCH ANYMORE THIS IS AN OUTRAGE"
moron
>bloat
moron detected
>you download them like always
automatically?
>centralized servers and matchmaking are cancer. bring back server browsers.
Steam has a server browser, it's mostly just used for source games though.
Additionally, Steamworks is not limited to servers and matchmaking, it can also serve has the handshake in peer to peer games so that randoms don't get your IP.
>mods are hosted on 3rd party websites (e.g. nexushomosexuals, gaybanana). what the frick are you talking about?
No third-party programs or obtuse guides required.
>social media bullshit is part of gaming
have a nice day
>defending automatic updates
have a nice day you tool holy shit
>Steam has a server browser, it's mostly just used for source games though.
then it's worthless. community servers >>>>>> centralized garbage
>the handshake in peer to peer games so that randoms don't get your IP.
>OH NO MY IP ADDRESS THE THING THAT COMPUTERS USE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER WHAT WILL I DO
have a nice day
>No third-party programs or obtuse guides required.
>I love nanny corporation telling me what I can and can't have on my hard drive
have a nice day.
reminder that when the fat israelite steps down, steam will become a den of israelitery the likes of which the world has never known
media bullshit
Confirmed moron, you do not want to know anything about a game before you buy it nor do you want to discuss it with other players to learn more about the games you like.
>have a nice day you tool holy shit
Not an argument either
>then it's worthless. community servers >>>>>> centralized garbage
Black person it only shows you community servers
>>OH NO MY IP ADDRESS THE THING THAT COMPUTERS USE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER WHAT WILL I DO
An IP can be exploited for the purpose of various cyber attacks, whether it be from or against you.
>I love nanny corporation telling me what I can and can't have on my hard drive
Strawman, not an argument.
>reminder that when the fat israelite steps down, steam will become a den of israelitery the likes of which the world has never known
From what we've heard, he's very hands off these days, so it's not going to change.
because the vast majority of gamers do not care about drm free games, but they care about having all their games available in one place neatly organized, and that is only steam at this point
gog fills a niche so I wouldn’t call it lost they got quite a market all things considered
Dunno. Buying games in another story just feel wrong. I just gamepass and egs because I don't buy anything there
GoG only exists to make piracy easier and to shine a light on older games. The only reason to use GoG if an older game isn't on Steam.
Steam has better community and utility features.
>Steam has better community
Shit like denuvo shouldn't even be legal. And if you or I tried to develop something like denuvo to ship with our games. It likely actually wouldn't be legal.
There is an unironic double standard here. And yet people, even on Ganker, will defend shit like denuvo.
Why?
Inertia and the average gamer being a low IQ moron.
>CSGO
>Dota 2
>TF2
>Steam sales
>Gaben
Publishers want DRM to protect sales first month after launch and Steam is very convenient. GoG is DRM free, like really, so the big hits only appear on Steam and that other store, until months or years later they put it on gog for a bit of long time revenue. This has made Steam synonous with PC gaming for those that just want to play a game right now and never research other options.
Steam had iconic PC games as a back bone. Valve was a dev first, and people LOVED valve back in the day. They were considered one of the divine developer studios at the time.
>usual 30% cut bad thread isn't up
>shitflinging thread up instead
I wonder who could be behind this thread
Does anyone here have experience playing GOG-purchased games on the Steam Deck? Do they work?
Use heroic launcher
I install my gog games in win7 and then dual boot to Debian to run them using Proton.
In Steam, it's a matter of clicking Games => "Add a non-Steam game to my library". And then enable Proton in the compatibility tab and whatever launch flags you need for Proton games. I'm using Proton-GE by the way.
I do this for games that don't run on win7, games I want to play with my (non-win7 supported) controller, or unity games because they trigger blue screens with the graphics driver I'm using (I don't know why).
being vastly superior to any competition does that to a company
>Good OLD Games
>Actually, it has a lot of new games too, and some of them aren't good
How is this legal?
Because Steam has stronger connections
Unlike GoG which only became a low level member of them fairly recently.
It's funny how millennials will enable monopolies thanks their unhinged fanatism.
It's okay when Valve does it
Steam doesn't lie and lets you share your library with friends and family
>Steam doesn't lie
KEK
Literally what's wrong with this? Obviously Steam only tracks how many people have a game open and not what's happening inside, that would be a nightmare.
Nothing, move along
>Verification not required.
I don't disagree that Steam should deal with bots farming boxes in CSGO, DOTA, TF2, etc.
That other post was about Steam "lying about player numbers". Are you moronic?
>Steam should deal with
Don't worry anon they already have deals in place
>phone poster
>an article from an "education provider" that doesn't actually cite its sources
>WON'T SOMBOD YTHINK OF GABE? MR. NEWELL NEEDS HIS IV'D MCDONALDS!
>no source, again
yeah, thought as much
>t.
>tf2 map with nothing to do with death cult movement
>has "TRANS RIGHTS" propaganda
God, why are troons the most obnoxious people?
>Source, source? You got a source on that?
If you can't look up
then you deserve to stay an ignorant NPC consoomer.
A company such as GOG can't unilaterally overrule copyright law.
They have to forbid you to share the games for legal reasons, but they go out of their way to make sure they can't stop you, by providing offline installers and signing them. They're not even watermarked with your customer ID so nothing is stopping you from sharing them anyway.
Oh no, I summoned the Gog defense force.
Frick you, if they truly cared for "ownership" the games would work like crypto, with unique id, encryption and such. You would be able to share them, sell them, destroy them even
>Gog defense force
I don't give a shit about the company, I'm just explaining why your college freshman ideology doesn't work in the real world.
GOG doesn't own the copyright of the games they sell, so it's not up to them to do any of that ancap crypto shit.
Whenever you think of buying a game on Steam, check if it's on gog first, so you can safely pirate it instead, without worrying about viruses.
The statements you underlined aren't mutually contradictory. Is this zoomer reading comprehension in action or just attention begging due to mental illness?
in the land of morons, being just average makes you king.
good new games and old games > good old games
You get nothing from using gog, cdpr also makes shit games
>You get nothing from using gog
CDPR doesn't steal my games every Tuesday.
Steam came first and people already had the games in their library.
No one wants to buy the same thing twice.
>Why did Steam win?
It didn't. What you want to ask is ''Why is steam bigger?'' and the simple answer is that they were first and monopolized the market. I personally switched to GOG years ago. Steam is cancer.
I've been using GOG more as well, I feel like a moron not doing it sooner. I like owning my vidya and sharing them with friens.
I hope you know that sharing your gog files is as legal as sharing your steam files
which is to say, it isn't
So?
nothing preventing you from strapping goldberg emulator to your steam files and sharing it with your friends if legality isn't a concern
Just don't tell that you share your games publicly. There are people who will complain and dox you. Salty homosexuals everywhere.
You still don't own shit. But it's a good first step towards real freedom, when all games have the source code available under a Free license, and all assets have a permissive CC license as well.
Lack of big multiplayer games. Same reason epic lost.
>fortnite
Mostly consolegays. Neither pcgays or consolegays like to interact with each other
Amazon games is uninronically better than GoG LMAO.
Steam has improved itself as a program so much to the point I'd even recommend people to install it even if they don't even buy games from it. Most of its detractors are just people who don't actually realize its full potential, or argue against the use of system resources not knowing it has a low performance setting you can toggle on.
Steam Input alone is enough of a sale yet you see people still argue in favor of programs like ds4windows, where steam itself offers much more options, community layouts, and complete customization over what each and every one of your keys and buttons do.
Valve has done so much for the linux gaming community too in their quest to get rid of windows as the enslaving main platform of PC.
It's actually ridiculous how much they have contributed to growing PC gaming as a market, the only thing they'd be lacking in their launcher at this point is a "quick capture" feature to record clips such as nvidia shadowplay or the share button in playstation to achieve complete console parity.
>Valve has done so much for the linux gaming community too in their quest to get rid of windows as the enslaving main platform of PC.
they are already enslaving linuxgays as we speak
>Steam Input alone is enough of a sale yet you see people still argue in favor of programs like ds4windows, where steam itself offers much more options, community layouts, and complete customization over what each and every one of your keys and buttons do.
this is a fault of microsoft, not ds4windows
on linux its plug and play and you dont need a garbage closed source DRM launcher that consumes 500+mb ram in the bg
Even though it's created a somewhat awkward 80/20 split between my Steam library, I still buy from GOG whenever possible, just out of principle of being DRM free. Also the 30 day full refund policy with no playtime limit is really nice.
I'd also add that GOG Galaxy is better than Steam for me personally since it is a lot less ''game facebook'' and more just my personal library of games. Another thing i like about GOG Galaxy is that i am not bombarded with ads every time i boot it up. Has all the functionality i want. Galaxy lets me:
>turn off game tracking
>turn off achievements
>roll back trough multiple versions of the game
>have minimalistic UI
People that like Steam are the same people that use their Windows/Linux as installed without tweaking it.
>just my personal library of games
just set the library as your landing page
>i am not bombarded with ads every time i boot it up
you can disable announcements
>turn off game tracking
yeah, you can't
>turn off achievements
you can
>roll back trough multiple versions of the game
not as convenient, but steamcmd exists
>People that like Steam are the same people that use their Windows/Linux as installed without tweaking it.
? what does this have to do with the client you use, neither provide any way to it, it's just a few predetermined options to choose from
I uses GOG whenever I can, but I'm not gonna not play a game I want to play because it's only available on Steam.
Everything comes eventually to GOG. I'd rather wait that give money to that fat troglodyte Gaben.
Supergiant has yet to put Hades on GOG six years after release despite the rest of their catalog being there. I don't think it's coming
Because Steam isn't owned by fricking CD Projekt
GOG filters out 99% of thirdies since it doesn't accept their meme currency
funnily enough, some games are cheaper with exchange rate due the american recession and declining dollar
>waaah i need a program to update the game for me
Modern pc gamers are like Americans, completely unwarranted delusions of grandeur.
anon, please look up what delusion of grandeur means before you use it again, thanks
That's completely fine if I'm pirating, but the whole point of paying money is that you remove all friction from the consumer. Publishers can't complain about Steam being so dominant or people pirating if they're going to be even lazier.
>americans mentioned out of nowhere
I know you yurotards can't handle all that freedom but at least try not to b jelly and seeth every single minute of your short life at how bigger our everything is.
Why aren't Max Payne 1+2 and GTA 1+2 on GOG?
>GTA 1+2
Aren't they freeware anyway?
Talk to the publishers owning the rights to the games. GOG try to bring as many games as they can to the platform. It is up to the publishers if they choose to put their games on GOG. Sadly Steam has been trying to stop as many publishers from releasing on GOG as they could. If GOG had all the games Steam had a lot of people would leave Steam. DRM free is simply better in the long run.
>Sadly Steam has been trying to stop as many publishers from releasing on GOG as they could
>Sadly Steam has been trying to stop as many publishers from releasing on GOG as they could.
No? Care to cite your source?
>If GOG had all the games Steam had a lot of people would leave Steam.
Never mind all the quality of life features they provide to developers and user
>quality of life
>steam
are you a paid shill or just a dumb drone spewing the marketing that has been fed up his throat?
>no argument, so he calls others stupid
>has no argument, accuses others of having none
the shill special
>called out
>"a-actually YOU don't have an argument!"
I do have one, right here
You replied to it, you're the one who doesn't
, you're the one who started screaming "shill" and "drone" with nothing to support.
>quality of life
>steam
are you a paid shill or just a dumb drone regurgitating the marketing kool-aid that has heen poured down his throat?
>Why did Steam win?
Pepe?
Steam had multiplayer and a whole social and community aspect.
Steam might as well be a Social network at this point.
People use it because all of their friends are on it.
Steam was there first, and people are dumb. They actually enjoy a DRM platform that also censors your speech.
GOG has no killer titles like CS,r DOTA 2, or Fortnite, and, like another anon said earlier, game devs treat GOG users like second-class citizens.
It's that simple.
I switched over to GoG because Steam took my vidya away for not switching over to windows 10
Literally hasn't happened yet.
few days to a few months it will happen so by that logic they're not yours anymore
No, because they work in Linux.
Also, Steam will probably keep working in Windows 7 until AI eats us all anyway. Just without official support.
But we'll see.
Just because everyone else gave into human rights violations doesn't mean you should too.
If you seek offense you will always find it anon
>2024
>still being afraid of Windows 10
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GOG has a launcer? don't you just click on the icon of the game to play?
Some people like the idea that they are constantly being monitored, either by a god, or a government, or a computer program. So gog obliged them and made a launcher. I think it even gives you an achievement when it thinks you did a good job in the video game.
I haven't played Armored Core 6 ever since they rolled out the updates that nerfed the bosses and fricked with the game.
And Steam was holding my game hostage. Refusing to boot the game up unless I updated first. So I didn't play the game.
If the game was on GOG I could have ignored the updates as much as I wanted.
Why do people suck Steam's dick so hard?
gamers love DRM
I prayed to yahweh that steam would be successful.
The annoying thing about gog vs steam is for coop multipolayer games sometimes devs will split the players so gog users only match with gog and steam with steam (example dying light) so it makes sense to buy the game on steam because there will be more people there
Yeah, same with Shadow Warrior 2. It was given away for free on gog but I still had to buy it to play coop (which is the main appeal of the game).
DL in particular is better with friends so it's doable to buy it on gog as long as you convince your friends to do the same
Steam doesn't have old Star Trek games so it is simply worse than gog. also drm.
if yall havent figured it out yet and still (STILL) refuse to migrate to w10
gog is the best alternative to steam
They started as Good Old Games. They didn't try hard enough with marketing to change that view in general public. Lacked proper launcher and some gay community functions that steam has.