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I have well over a hundred games purchased on GoG or game website or humble bundle (many of them also on my steamdeck - kudos to Valve for building an open plat
by capitainenemo 4y ago
I have well over a hundred games purchased on GoG or game website or humble bundle (many of them also on my steamdeck - kudos to Valve for building an open platform).
I also have many hundreds purchased off of Itch (in large part due to the ukraine bundle).
I prefer to purchase off GoG/humble just due to how locked down Steam is. I've bought the same game in a series on GoG versus Steam. On GoG I can LAN game with my kid to play co-op. On steam, I would need to purchase a controller, figure out how to use it, since basically no games support using 2 keyboard configurations on 2 USB keyboards, and steam requires purchasing multiple copies for LAN play.
Also the steam client often sucks up gigs of RAM (seems to be due to the chrome web portion when checking process list) for no obvious reason that I have better use for.
Epic on the other hand, I have purchased exactly one game at my kid's request and it being an epic exclusive. Due to no linux support of any kind. I've snagged a fair number of their freebies in the past, but only a few work somewhat under Wine, often only if circumventing their client, so it's not worth dropping my money on.