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steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? (szmer.info)

submitted 1 week ago by Igilq@szmer.info to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Hey, so for some time now i had this problem... I have been buying games from both gog and steam... No drm option is good on gog but there are some festures missing from what steam has, for example being able to buy games from trading cards... What should i do? Focuse on buying games from gog and if there isnt a game then buy it on steam? Or maybe just buy games on steam?

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 86 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Check both, if the game is available on both, then I will get it on Gog.

If not, Steam it is!

I have a few games I enjoy so much that I have bought them several times, including on both Steam and Gog.

An example, back in 2004/2005 I bought Unreal Tournament 2004 on CDs, then when I found it on Steam a few years later, I bought it there as well as I wanted a modern installer, finally I found it on Gog without DRM yet another few years later and bought it there as well.

I love that game and wanted the best installer for it, especially without DRM.

Fun fact, Unreal Tournament 2004 has a native Linux version on the retail disks, you will find a bash install script in the root on one of the CDs

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

This is the reasonable way.

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