ItinerantNomad 89 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 all good things must - at some point - come to an end, maybe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Leferd 3,045 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I'm not sure if I follow your reasoning? This is their pitch: http://www.gog.com/galaxy What is your question? Why I don't like galaxy concept? ...one thing I really dislike re: Steam is ... auto patching. Must have patch before you can play it again (if you go online and game detects it needs a patch). Yes I know galaxy is optional, which is why at the moment it's a tolerable concept - assuming it stays optional. I tend to find such stuff often doesn't, in the long run. I also don't care about a client organizing my games for me, achievements, or whatever else. Or having a client at all. But GoG is trying to expand and grow, and is discovering that it may be difficult without changing their style as well. What direction this will take them in is anyone's guess. It often, to my personal way of thinking, doesn't end up very well. Gotcha. Quote "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to post Share on other sites
cloudpm 8 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I will go with steam : yes on GoG you don't have those DRM stuff and what you buy is what you get, but since for me it's a lot more convenient to have all my games centralized in a same place with all automatic patch downloads... let's go steam 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheGoatMan 27 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Gog just because I am lazy and was already signed into my gog account. So I pre-ordered it from them Quote Break beneath the endless tide - monk Link to post Share on other sites
danielkx 45 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 GoG without question. There is literally no reason for me to go with steam. I do not need auto patching as I have no problems or issues installing a patch myself. Even if I have to wait an extra day to get the patch because sometimes patches get released through steam a little faster, I am more than fine with it. Seriously, downloading and installing a patch manually takes like an extra minute or two compared to having auto patch, so I don't see the big deal about it. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Katarack21 3,116 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Steam. I'm lazy and I have a Steam account, and I actually have friends I can chat with over it while I play who will also be playing PoE. So that's it, pretty much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jarmo 804 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Gog, Steam would be more convenient though. Unless it so happens the next automatically installed patch isn't save compatible and everything breaks. Anyways, most my game discussions are on gog forums, a good place I want to support. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
constantine 282 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Good Old Games !! DRM-free !!! Death to the Empire ! 2 Quote Matilda is a Natlan woman born and raised in Old Vailia. She managed to earn status as a mercenary for being a professional who gets the job done, more so when the job involves putting her excellent fighting abilities to good use. Link to post Share on other sites
ruzen 160 Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Now that I think about It, PoE will most likely to have Steam Workshop. Modders are easly patching their mods. My mind is now set Quote Kana - "Sorry. It seems I'm not very good at raising spirits." Kana winces. "That was unintentional." Link to post Share on other sites
Luckmann 2,621 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Now that I think about It, PoE will most likely to have Steam Workshop. Modders are easly patching their mods. My mind is now set PoE is going to have it's own Nexus site. Setting up a Steam Workshop would be incredibly counterproductive, so I wouldn't count on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
riffraffselbow 3 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 GoG without question. There is literally no reason for me to go with steam. I do not need auto patching as I have no problems or issues installing a patch myself. Even if I have to wait an extra day to get the patch because sometimes patches get released through steam a little faster, I am more than fine with it. Seriously, downloading and installing a patch manually takes like an extra minute or two compared to having auto patch, so I don't see the big deal about it. The "big deal" is knowing a patch exists. I've probably got a few hundred PC games in total. Even if I were to set up an RSS reader dedicated to following the patch notes forums of all the games (which would be an insane amount of work and even the upkeep would be killer) It'd still take me crazy amounts of time to keep everything updated. Steam also offers: -one-login downloads (for other games as well as PoE) -file corruption checking (for when mods go awry) 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gnostic 19 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I don't want steam growing too big and get ugly like microsoft. It has ugly customer support now, and are hard in refunding the second game onwards. More competition is good for the customers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
danielkx 45 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Litany 70 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) 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. Edited February 8, 2015 by Litany Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Failion 86 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) if ur seriously consider buying games. You want go with GoG since you can get refunds. Steam doesn't give refunds unless their is a fault with the game. If you want to take a risk and want steam achievements go with steam. You can totally get robbed in 2015 and pay 60 bucks for a game like dying light and have the game run like crap because you have a AMD card and the developer choose to do a secret deal with nvidia. Edited February 8, 2015 by Failion 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yonjuro 806 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Steam, just because I'm lazy (slacker backer very much appropriate tyvm). I wish the concept of DRM would just die off already, DRM will never die if people keep throwing money at it. Never. There are multiple factors that go into the Steam v. Gog decision but, understand what you are doing when you pay for a DRM version of a game. You are saying, in the only language that companies understand, that DRM is just fine. Wishing doesn't make DRM go away. Refusing to to pay for DRM games makes DRM go away. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Magniloquent 667 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I like owning my games. Paying money to access a game rubs me the wrong way. I also anticipate heavily modding this game. Steam makes that a headache. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jarmo 804 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) To derail the thread further. To say DRM is about fighting piracy, that it's futile, is missing what it's all about. DRM isn't about piracy, it's about clamping down on used games trade, and it's highly successful. Register a game, as you must to play, and it's tied to you by chains of pure drm. Game shops are dying left and right, a good deal of business of which publishers didn't get a cut is soon history. In this respect, gog is just about as bad as Steam. Though in case gog, kids, filthy little thieves as they are, can just slip the installer into an USB stick and share the fun with friends. Which scares the hell out of many a company man. Aannd.. I don't know, might be a percentage that will share with friends, that wouldn't just grab a torrent. Dunno. Anyhoo. Gog. Edited February 9, 2015 by Jarmo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ink Blot 978 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) GOG for me. Although I use Steam, I don't like DRM (yes, I know Steam isn't inherently DRM, let's not get into that discussion) and won't tie a game to a particular client if a DRM-free option exists (I also have a strict policy of only buying games that are tied to clients when they're on a deep, deep discount: tie your game to a client and you severely devalue the game in my eyes). So yeah, GOG will always be my first choice over Steam. *edit* Oh yeah, one of my rigs on which I play games is not connected to the internet. So Steam means I can't play them on that rig. A further reason to go with GOG. Edited February 9, 2015 by Ink Blot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FlintlockJazz 2,005 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 GOG man here. Quote "That rabbit's dynamite!" - King Arthur, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail "Space is big, really big." - Douglas Adams Link to post Share on other sites
Argahawk 1 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Wanted to buy on GOG but receive gift from brother so Steam here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Snoozer 59 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 GoG all the way. On the auto patching issue, you can turn off auto patching in Steam. Doesn't prevent one from playing the game. As GoG is mod friendly and DRM free, I think they'll be lenient with the auto patching options. Lets wait and see what they do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cw8 2 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 GOG, because DRM-free offline is everything to me. I double dip some games on GOG that I already have on steam just because of that. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ink Blot 978 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I double dip some games on GOG that I already have on steam just because of that. Yep, same here. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gwyn 4 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I would choose Steam. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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