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

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel you do this quite nicely. Personally I think if I had bought such an old game already on physical media decades ago, I'd just pirate it now. I can see the argument though that GOG (or Steam for that matter) delivers tweaks that make old games work on new hardware though, so that is worth paying for. Guess it all comes down to pricing, I wouldn't be willing to pay full price for just a patch that makes it work on current systems.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

I have never really pirated games myself, I was always far too worried about malware to do it.

Though, when dad was traveling in Asia back in the early 2000s he used to come back home with a shitload of games/software which most had a folder called crack in the root of the CD....