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GOG links to your Steam Account and will add games to your library that exist in your Steam Library. It only does this for participating publishers but it's st
by cptskippy 9y ago
GOG links to your Steam Account and will add games to your library that exist in your Steam Library. It only does this for participating publishers but it's still an effective way to copy your library.
- c3534l 9y agoWell, I guess that explains why people like GOG and hate Origin.
- kuschku 9y agoGOG also has no DRM'd games, at all. It's truly amazing, and if possible, I always buy from them.
- kbart 9y agoYes, GOG is the only place I buy games from. I don't want to have spyware installed on my PC in a form of DRM or be able to play games only while connected to Internet, so I don't use Steam at all.
- kuschku 9y agoAgreed, some DRM solutions are so bad, they’re worse than simple spyware – for example, Sony’s DRM Rootkit in the past.
- kbart 9y agoDRM isn't even worst for me, I can always use a fresh virtual machine for a game and wipe it out afterwards, but constant Internet connection requirement totally kills it, as I don't have time for games often and these rare moments I play something is usually on a laptop when I'm on vacation out of town with no reliable Internet connection. GOG is great, I can buy, own and play a game whenever I want, wherever I want and expect it to be playable many years in future, even when official servers are long dead.
- kuschku 9y agoYes! The most interesting part is that I bought the collectors edition of some Ubisoft games back when they were released, the DRM servers were shut down, and now they won’t work – but I bought them on GOG again, and the GOG version, without DRM, works just fine.
- AlphaSite 9y agoorigin has something similar. Letting you activate old games on their.
- zingmars 9y agoNot exactly. Quite a few EA games on Steam will give you a license key that can be activated on Origin. In some instances they might use a generic key that might not activate, but you can ask Origin Support to activate it on Origin for you. The hate for Origin was mostly hate for EA's greedy practices and some privacy related stuff that came out when their client was released.
- cptskippy 9y agoI have found that Origin and Ubisoft's thing scan your HDD and add their Steam games to their respective libraries.
- always_good 9y agoWell, GOG also gives you an executable which is rare these days. You can click and drag it onto your friends' computers for a quick LAN party or to let your girlfriend play alongside you on a airplane. I never hated Steam more than the time I was on a 18 hour bus ride only to find out Steam wouldn't even launch if it decided it needed to check for updates and you had no internet connection. And there was no way then to play the games you paid for. If a game you want is available on both GOG and Steam, it's almost irresponsible to get the Steam version. Oh yeah, on that same bus ride, I found out that .azw-formatted ebooks are locked to a single Kindle. I'm ready for GOG Books.
- cptskippy 9y agoOrigin does it as well but only with EA games. Ubisoft does it for their abomination as well.
- watwut 9y agoThe best thing about GOG is that I am actually able to find interesting games I did not knew they exist before there. Discovery on steam is atrocious.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoDiscovery seems good on Steam to me - shows games your 'friends' have and are playing, search by tags/keywords, stream of game suggestions you can work through, easy to browse library ... what's it need extra IYO?
- watwut 9y agoI would prefer games I might like instead of those my 'friends' (virtually non existent on steam and those who are having different preferences) have. I am mostly unable to find puzzle games that are not rpgs nor adventures. No matter what I do I see same most popular games I don't happen to be interested in.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoLike Portal, World of Goo, Talos Principle? Or are those too RPG/adventurey? Seems most people want puzzles in a context, rather than just raw? If I go to search and put "puzzle" I get pages of puzzles and can choose a tighter genre to narrow it down. If I go to Portal 2, say, I get "more like this" (Qube looks interesting). What's your best puzzle game?
- StavrosK 9y agoReally?! Oh wow, how did I not know this? Thank you!
- ThatPlayer 9y agoIt's more of a promotional event they have once in a while. https://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/GOG_Connect https://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/GOG_Connect has a history of games and dates. If you miss the owning that game on that then, and remember to check the website, you miss it.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoBut GOG has weird standards for what it will and will not allow on its store. Yatzee had some game he made denied, and Zachtronic's Opus Magnum was also denied.
- Feniks 9y agoGOG still does curation. Valve used to decide what got on their store too but they opened the floodgates for any old crap. Mind you Valve still has a policy against porn. Lots of games still have to link to uncensored patches.