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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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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only black-and-white rule is: if you're buying an older game you should always buy it on GOG. No exceptions. There's too many retro games on Steam that won't even launch on modern machines, and beyond that GOG is typically very good at including fan made patches and fixes into their versions of old games, ensuring older games actually work and are just plug-and-play.

[–] tekino@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not always true unfortunately. iirc saints row 2 was capped at 30fps on gog but not steam, and FEAR still installed the DRM software but was just patched to not use it. Don't know of any other cases like those tho

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago

F.E.A.R. was eventually fixed. I'm pretty sure only the multiplayer.exe. still has DRM. I played it recently including the expansion and it was just fine.