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I avoid buying from Steam and prefer GOG when I can because I don't really want to have continued access to my games collection be dependent on Gabe eating his veggies, avoiding saturated fats and doing at least a 30m walk a day to keep the risk of a heart attack low and look both ways before he crosses a road so as not to be run over by a car.
In almost 4 decades as a gamer and a techie I've seen plenty of good companies turn into evil companies and start to leverage whatever dependencies customers had on them to pretty much blackmail them into paying more, sometimes after the founders died, others when the founders cashed out or just lost interest in managing the company's direction and yet others because they were evil all along and just hid it whilst they built their customer base - enshittification isn't a XXI century thing, what's XXI century about it is that many companies nowadays already have it as part of their mid and long term strategy from the start.
Best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about, unless you have no other choice, even if at the moment they're basically a benevolent dictatorship.
Better safe than sorry.
They are not public so we are safe for now. When they go public they go shit mode
Sadly i guess it could happen to GOG too. I mean, anything you have already bought is safe but someone could step in and change the business model and end such a great thing.
Indeed. Any online store can go under or enshittify.
If you want to stay safe with GOG, download the offline installers for your games and archive them. If you don't you're running the risk of losing some or all of it.
The rule "best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about" is general, not Steam specific.
Fortunatelly GOG has DRM-free offline installers available for download as standard, Steam does not make that option available - at best you can copy and zip existing installations of Steam games and hope for the best (some will work, some will not), and that is a "hack" rather than official supported.
The point being that Steam could make something like DRM-free (or at least phone-home-DRM-free) offline installers available - at least for games whose developers/publishers are willing - and mark that as a feature in the game page in their store for those games, but they have chosen not to do so and remain steadfast in that choice: they purposefully keep customers dependent on them of enjoy their purchases and we're all expected to just trust them, now and forever.
As I said, 4 decades in gaming and Tech have taught me you can't trust large companies forever.