3 ms·

I hate steam, and love gog. But there is one issue that makes me buy certain games on steam. Games that get released full of bugs and that then get fixed with

I hate steam, and love gog. But there is one issue that makes me buy certain games on steam. Games that get released full of bugs and that then get fixed with frequent updates.. This tends to happen with ambitious indie games from small teams (the best games!).. I fully trust the team to fix the game, but when it releases usually there are a lot of bugs they didnt find as they have no QA. Eg. I just bought ' Frozen Synapse 2' Steam seems to get updates earlier and more frequently. Why is that? Is it cus the devs dont bother updating gog? That doesnt seem likely from these teams. GOG should definitely do everything they can to have update/patch parity with steam, if that means making it part of the contract when u release a game there, so be it. Then I would never buy anything on steam. ps. Why do I hate steam? 1. Its an unnecessary program on ure system, that wants to always be on, always be updating, have all kinds of access it doesnt need jusr for u to play games. 2. It has a lot of social features and whatnot (that I dont care about cus I only play single player games) but at its core it is simply a DRM system and DRM is terrible. 3. It obfuscates the game files, putting them all in a 'steam' folder. So you cant easily manage / back them up. 4. Double click game icon .. loading steam.. updating steam..

manfredo 8y ago
Do you use GoG Galaxy? It's GoG's desktop client that automatically updates games. I usually find that games are updated more or less simultaneously between Steam and GoG. After all, it's the developers or studio that dedicates resources towards producing bug-fixes, the same version is usually uploaded to all the online distributors so there's no real reason not to push updates to all the distribution services. Maybe GoG gets different builds because it's DRM-free, and that adds time to release updates?
- everyone 8y ago
  No, gog galaxy is too much like steam. I dont need automatic updates.. I'd just like to be able to get latest update patches, or latest version from gog.
- ratiolat 8y ago
  There's no Linux version of GoG galaxy.
  - ThatPlayer 8y ago
    I think this has prevented some games from being released on Linux at all on GoG. Tooth and Tail has a Linux/Mac/Windows release on Steam, but is missing the Linux release on GoG. It uses Galaxy or Steam for multiplayer.
baud147258 8y ago
I've heard that, for GOG, the pipeline to validate/publish patch is not as reactive as the one for Steam. And the big différence in market share might make the developpers prioritize Steam over GOG
unionpivo 8y ago
There was a post on gog forums about this from developers of one of the games, i cant find it right now. But form what i remember, developer can push updates to stem on his own. For gog, they need action from gog. (and i think gog also reviews new patches.)
simion314 8y ago
Other Steam downside, -the kid is playing a game on his laptop so Steam will not work on the PC, I try to keep Steam in Offline mode as much as possible. -playing in Wine and keeping each game in its own prefix, you have to install Steam in each prefix, unlock it with the security code each time and I think there were some Steam updates that broke in Wine, so for Wine having a standalone game is always the better solution.

manfredo 8y ago

Do you use GoG Galaxy? It's GoG's desktop client that automatically updates games. I usually find that games are updated more or less simultaneously between Steam and GoG. After all, it's the developers or studio that dedicates resources towards producing bug-fixes, the same version is usually uploaded to all the online distributors so there's no real reason not to push updates to all the distribution services. Maybe GoG gets different builds because it's DRM-free, and that adds time to release updates?

everyone 8y ago
No, gog galaxy is too much like steam. I dont need automatic updates.. I'd just like to be able to get latest update patches, or latest version from gog.
ratiolat 8y ago
There's no Linux version of GoG galaxy.
- ThatPlayer 8y ago
  I think this has prevented some games from being released on Linux at all on GoG. Tooth and Tail has a Linux/Mac/Windows release on Steam, but is missing the Linux release on GoG. It uses Galaxy or Steam for multiplayer.

baud147258 8y ago

I've heard that, for GOG, the pipeline to validate/publish patch is not as reactive as the one for Steam. And the big différence in market share might make the developpers prioritize Steam over GOG

unionpivo 8y ago

There was a post on gog forums about this from developers of one of the games, i cant find it right now. But form what i remember, developer can push updates to stem on his own. For gog, they need action from gog. (and i think gog also reviews new patches.)

simion314 8y ago

Other Steam downside, -the kid is playing a game on his laptop so Steam will not work on the PC, I try to keep Steam in Offline mode as much as possible. -playing in Wine and keeping each game in its own prefix, you have to install Steam in each prefix, unlock it with the security code each time and I think there were some Steam updates that broke in Wine, so for Wine having a standalone game is always the better solution.