I love GOG.COM, it's the best site to purchase digital copies of games. If I have to use Steam and unofficial cracks just to avoid Steam constantly running in the background with a internet connection, I might as well download illegal copies instead of buying the games since Steam is so ludicrously unfair to offline gamers. If you have a backlog of games and you're just hoarding games because they are on sale, I say stick with GOG. If you can enjoy the games now, I'd say Steam is better. I avoid purchasing on STEAM when it's available on both platform. Unfortunately, STEAM does offer many newer games than GOG. I have my GOG games backed up on blu-ray in case I need it. I am not confident when I retire (and likely when I could play them) that they would be there. In short, I have spent hundreds of dollars on Steam. With Steam, although I believe Gabe Newell will do everything he can to give customers what they purchased for, will likely not be in control of the softwares that Valve did not create. what happens when either company files Chapter 11? With GOG, you get the piece of mind that you can backup your copy even if GOG goes. I have a huge backlog of both GOG and Steam. I’d say that GOG.com should sell games separately and people can bundle games themselves at checkout if they want to. Okay, so if you don’t want both, that’s fine, but if you do want both, it’s hell to get them because they’re technically by different publishers, so they are rarely ever in the same sale if it’s organised by publisher (which it often is) – and that is annoying. Currently on GOG.com, you have to buy Jagged Alliance 2 and Unfinished Business separately, and the same goes for Jagged Alliance and Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games too. Then when I do want games bundled, they aren’t, like the Jagged Alliance series. On Steam you can buy them individually, so guess who got my money? That’s right, Steam did – because I only wanted Commandos 2 and not Commandos 3 (which I ended up buying later on anyway along with the rest of the series because it went stupidly cheap). For instance, they put Commandos 2 and Commandos 3 in a bundle for sale instead of selling them separately. I don’t like the way that games are bundled together sometimes. You can often get the same games cheaper elsewhere. Some games are overpriced, and the sale prices aren’t always that spectacular either. Some might argue that the base price of a game (the lowest is $5.99) is too high. There are a few things I would like to see GOG work on, and in doing so they would become even better than they already are. There’s no doubt though that GOG is the underdog, and that’s a huge reason why I love it. A lot of the games they sell involve being given a key to activate on Steam. GOG is Steam’s main competitor in a lot of ways, whereas most other distributors aren’t really rivals – they work together with Steam, and all they are in essence is Steam resellers. I think it stands to reason that there is a market out there comprised of gamers who don’t want to deal with DRM and other things that can ruin their day, and even after a game has done the rounds everywhere else, there is still some profit to be made for everyone involved on GOG. It’s not just old games anymore, but indie games and even some AAA titles in a publisher’s back catalogue. So much so, that you’ll often find games that are exclusive to GOG that aren’t sold anywhere else – and interestingly enough, other distributors at times use GOG’s installer for a game, too – most likely to ensure compatibility with their games. While some publishers have shown some dislike or are at least indifferent towards GOG.com (*cough* Bethesda! *cough*), others have shown increasing interest in getting their games on GOG. So then that same link can be used again until all the games in it have been redeemed. Even if they don’t own any of the games, they can still choose to only redeem the ones they want. I like it that if you buy a game as a gift and give it to someone else, and they have one or more of the games in the gift link, they can activate only the ones they don’t have if they want to. You only ever have to fill in required fields like name, card number, security code, and the date of expiry. Steam, Green Man Gaming and virtually every other distributor online will make you save a billing address, which is essentially your street or mailing address. And with GOG, no personal information is saved when paying.
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