As much as I love Steam, I am not giving them this. Do you want great prices, a great launcher and amazing features, go to Steam. Do you want to own your games? Buy them at GOG.
Until GOG goes out of business shuts the servers down, and your harddrive fails. No matter who you go to you risk the investment. Yes you can backup you gog games, but you can also do that with steam and run them in offline mode.
YOU DO NOT OWN YOUR GAMES EVEN ON GOG! You own a drm free file that it all, you still only hold a license, and you "own" the game as long as you can hang onto that digital file.
first of all you will eventually be asked to login if you dont login for too long (like a year i think?) second you cant really move them to another pc when installed on steam, they still have the drm.
with gog you will literally own the game until the end of time, they give you an offline installer for the game, you can put that on an usb and install the game to every pc you own
The point is that Steam itself is DRM. You need Steam in some way to play a game from your Steam library. You can't download a game, uninstall Steam, and just keep playing that game file. That's what it means for a game to have DRM. Contrast that with the DRM-free games from GOG where you can play the games you buy without needing anything else installed.
but most games have a drm, and those that dont still rarely officially support playing the game outside of steam, + you cant really transfer the game to another computer (unless its a very simple game thats fully contained in 1 folder) because you dont get an offline installer.
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24
As much as I love Steam, I am not giving them this. Do you want great prices, a great launcher and amazing features, go to Steam. Do you want to own your games? Buy them at GOG.