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If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it? (lemmy.ml)

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I've had this question looking at the Quake con sale, and Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is for sale on both platforms. I ended up buying it on GOG. What is your opinion?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GOG, because if you don't use GOG Galaxy (and you can as is not at all required and ALL games have offline installers) you never fire up a game and have to wait for Steam to update or are on vacations running it on a notebook with mobile paid data, forget to disable "cloud saves" or some stupid shit like that and run out of data.

Also GOG is 100% DRM free.

Oh, and did you know that Steam is about to switch off Windows 7 support?!

Why should games that work perfectly in older computers with Windows 7, bought and paid for because of supporting it, stop working because Valve wants to keep on controlling your usage of games you bought but doesn't want to spend money for even a basic launch clienf supporting that OS?

There is no such problem with GOG and there will never be if you download the offline installers for your games - as long as the machine works, the games will work, period.

Oh, and GOG goes out of their way yo support old games: it's in their name Good Old Games.

GOG is freedom, Steam is a golden chain.