GoG or Steam ?

[Gairnulf]

Can anyone answer this, or is it answered somewhere already:

 

In my pledge it says "Digital Downloadable Copy of Pillars of Eternity, DRM free for Windows, Mac, or Linux." Which services will this use? GOG or Steam? It doesn't matter much to me, but just curious.

[TheisEjsing]

I'll use steam, cuz I can't be bothered to google what a "GOG" or a "DRM" is. ;-)

[BrainMuncher]

Can anyone answer this, or is it answered somewhere already:

 

In my pledge it says "Digital Downloadable Copy of Pillars of Eternity, DRM free for Windows, Mac, or Linux." Which services will this use? GOG or Steam? It doesn't matter much to me, but just curious.

You get to choose. Hence the poll.

[Gairnulf]

That's very cool then. And at what point do I have to decide and how do I submit my choice?

[BrainMuncher]

Not 100% on that but I think

1. when the game is released

and

2. https://eternity.obsidian.net/account

[illathid]

 

 

Steam takes 30% of the gross sales from the game companies that make the game... That's more than Sony and Microsoft take from companies releasing game on the consoles Sony and Microsoft make. Why the hell should valve get such a ridiculously high % for doing very little?

 

Yes they help drive sales for game companies... But 30% is just atrocious. I cannot support their company as long as they do that.

Isn't 30% fairly standard for digital distribution storefronts? I think that's the same cut Apple's app store takes. Does GOG take less?

 

Edit: The Humble Store only takes a 25% cut, which seems to be the best deal for publishers/developers out there. Short of buying directly from the developer, that is.

GOG takes a 30% cut too IIRC.

[Greetsme]

I love GOG, it's so clean and easy.  It's a shame that sometimes the lure of steams EA, has you buy from steam, rather than wait for GOG.  Saying that, if the game turns out good, I buy it again from GOG.  

[Lady Evenstar]

Probably discs for me, and GOG or Steam for my husband, as he prefers.

[Varana]

Not sure yet.

I do get a physical and a digital copy, though, so I'll already have a DRM-free copy. Therefore, I'll probably get the digital copy on Steam - not the least because I want people to see that I play PE. :D

[ModernModron]

Have to go with GOG.  I have nothing against Steam, but I'd prefer to get a copy that can't be turned off later on.  Plus, it can still work if my internet gets disrupted for some reason.

[Falkentyne]

^{Isn't GoG owned or run by the same people who make the Witcher series?}

^{If so ,I think I will choose GoG}

[dragonwanderer]

Not sure yet.

I do get a physical and a digital copy, though, so I'll already have a DRM-free copy. Therefore, I'll probably get the digital copy on Steam - not the least because I want people to see that I play PE. :D

This is also true for me. And I like taking screenshots and writing captions while playing all the time and Steam automatically backs them up in the cloud... so yeah Steam 100%.

[BrainMuncher]

^{Isn't GoG owned or run by the same people who make the Witcher series?}

^{If so ,I think I will choose GoG}

Yep, it was started by CDPR

[JediMB]

I have my game disc for a DRM-free version, so the convenience and luxury features of Steam is of much greater concern for my digital copy.

[illathid]

 

^{Isn't GoG owned or run by the same people who make the Witcher series?}

^{If so ,I think I will choose GoG}

Yep, it was started by CDPR

 

All the more reason to avoid GoG then...

[Kinthalis]

Steam for me, for sure. It's my preferred digital store, anything not an EA exclusive I own on Seam.

[Kinthalis]

Don't know whence the hate for Steam. If it wasn't for Steam, it's entirely likely that PC gaming wouldn't be where it is today.

 

As for DRM, that's optional and not mandatory on Steam. Plenty of developers/publishers opt out of it, and plenty don't. That's up to them though, not Steam.

[Kinthalis]

Steam takes 30% of the gross sales from the game companies that make the game... That's more than Sony and Microsoft take from companies releasing game on the consoles Sony and Microsoft make. Why the hell should valve get such a ridiculously high % for doing very little?

 

Yes they help drive sales for game companies... But 30% is just atrocious. I cannot support their company as long as they do that.

 

30% is the standard fee for digitla marketplaces. Microsoft and Sony probably take at least 30% if not more for digital game son their marketplaces. AND they take about 20% from retail sales they have nothing to do with directly! Heck, Sony charges developers a per gig fee for downloadable titles on top of their cut!

 

Now, I do think lowering that a bit would be good for PC gaming and for Steam, but I don't have all the information Valve does. Maybe 5% less would make sense financially, maybe not.

[Kevin Lynch]

I'll be Steaming. I love GoG but I've found that keeping track of updates can be extremely difficult at times, especially for games that I started, stepped away for a bit, then came back to later. I feel that PoE is a game that's going to get frequent updates, like WL2 and D:OS, and I'd much rather it just auto-patch itself.

[Luckmann]

If it wasn't for Steam, it's entirely likely that PC gaming wouldn't be where it is today.

That's true. And it'd probably be for the better.

[Kinthalis]

 

If it wasn't for Steam, it's entirely likely that PC gaming wouldn't be where it is today.

That's true. And it'd probably be for the better.

 

 

If for the better you mean - likely not as healthy as it is today, then maybe.

 

Like it or not, it's made PC gaming accessible and convenient enough to attract a lot more gamers to core games like this one. Sure, there are games out there that would have hit the zeitgeist either way like Minecraft and League, but many other PC games would have suffered without a popular marketplace with tons of potential customers...

 

Or worse, Microsoft's utter disaster of a system could have taken off and We'd all be forced to buy games on our PC's but be forced to play them on Xboxes. )

Edited February 19, 2015 by Kinthalis

[Ink Blot]

Like it or not, it's made PC gaming accessible and convenient enough to attract a lot more gamers to core games like this one.

Doubtful. The PC gaming market is obviously there, so if Steam did not exist, there would still be a market. Whether that would mean retail in brick and mortar stores would be much more prevalent than it is now (like it used to be) or whether other digital distribution methods would have cropped up (much more likely), it would still be thriving. Steam may have jumped in at the right time to capitalize on the movement to digital distribution and become the de facto 900 lb gorilla, but IMO, the reports of it being the 'savior' of PC gaming are highly exaggerated.

[Havelok]

Steam has Playtime, Easy Updates, All of my Collection in one Place, and Achievements.

 

So, steam first.

 

However, once the game has been out a year I'll likely buy the GoG version too just for posterity, and burn it on an archival disc. 

[Quillon]

^{Isn't GoG owned or run by the same people who make the Witcher series?}

^{If so ,I think I will choose GoG}

 

For this reason I wanna go with GoG on the other hand I have no problem with steam's drm and I wanna preload the game, not very fast interwebz here. 50/50 atm...

[HetMasteen]

Steam wins hands down. The additional support/features provided far outweigh any potential DRM issues; Of which I've never had any with Steam in what must be around a decade worth of use.