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yozul, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
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Steam. It’s better on Linux, and GOG isn’t always DRM free anymore. Also, although most games do, Steam games don’t actually have to use any DRM.

ampersandrew, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
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I'm on Linux, so if I buy from GOG, I don't get cloud saves or automatic updates. If we had Galaxy on Linux, it would be my default store. But it's not on Linux, so I shop on Steam.

AphoticDev,
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Heroic launcher handles cloud saves for GOG. You can also have automatic updates.

ampersandrew,
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Neither are guaranteed by the seller though. They could change their API tomorrow and break compatibility. Unlikely though that is, if they want my sale, they can do the work themselves rather than relying on an unofficial project with hooks into their store.

whiskeypickle, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
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Steam because GOG does something to their games that makes most mods not work on them.

Gotta have my mods!

mrbubblesort, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
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Honestly I'm so lazy and deep into the ecosystem now if if it's not on Steam I just won't play it. There's too many things to play, and I don't care enough to bother with multiple launchers and accounts

AphoticDev,
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This is exactly why I buy from both. I don’t want to be one of those people who is so invested in one platform that they can’t afford not to spend their money there.

jordanlund, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
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If I’m getting it on one of those platforms, it’s to play it on my Steam Deck and it’s more native to do it in Steam.

Aurenkin, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?

Used to be GoG but now Steam. I run Linux so it’s nice to have a client that makes that easy rather than having to rely on a 3rd party one.

Platform27,

Check out Heroic Game Launcher. It works with GoG, handles GoG Galaxy Cloud Save support, and works with Proton (similar to Steam). A very good client.

exu,

As someone also using Linux, Steam has an official client, the workshop and is continuously advancing gaming on Linux. While GOG promised a native client years ago they haven’t delivered and Heroic has much fewer features than Steam.

Aurenkin,

Yeah, heroic is amazing and I really appreciate the amount of work that’s gone into it. It’s still much more convenient to buy direct from Steam and it rewards the company for the efforts to push gaming on Linux forward.

Katana314,

I’ve been trying to get Heroic working with my Epic account to no success.

Generally, that has been my experience with most open source solutions to closed source app gardens.

warmaster, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?

I’ve learned my lesson to never buy again from any other than Steam.

Every other launcher except GOG Galaxy are pure trash. And about a year ago I switched to Linux, so now I only buy from Steam. They make gaming better for everyone, they know it’s a win-win situation.

TwinTusks, do gaming w Steam Deck VS rivals

Correct me if I’m wrong, but all these better alternative have “better” price tags.

Stefh,
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No, they all cost more of the Steam Deck

Smoke, do gaming w what's some of the best dialogue systems you've seen and why?

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has special lines that unlock according to your character build. Unlike a single Charisma skill, they’re divided into skills like ‘Intimidation’, ‘Seduction’, ‘Erudite’, etc. Intimidate options appear in ALL CAPS HULK SPEAK, seductive options are in italic in handwriting, and Erudite appears in blue. If you lose your humanity and become too bestial, dialogue starts disappearing as you’re too far gone to understand it and NPCs start being too scared to talk to you.

ILikeBoobies, do gaming w Steam Deck VS rivals

You can run Heroic on the steam deck to play Epic

Ally is worse than the steam deck in everything unless it’s plugged in and you’re using a keyboard and mouse, at that point you should get a laptop

Emulators also have no issue

The res is lower so it can play higher demanding games, necessary res scales with screen size, a 1 cm screen doesn’t matter if it’s 10 pixels or 10 million but a 200 cm screen you’d want the 10 million

Rivals might compete but they aren’t big enough to handle volume (you might be waiting a long time)

Also Linux is better than Windows

Damage, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?

Used to be GOG for DRM free games, now it’s Steam because of Linux support and the Steam Deck

dutchkimble,

Ditto

the16bitgamer,
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Lutris makes installing GOG games with proton pretty easy. Haven’t had issues on my end

fritata_fritato, do games w Quake II (Remaster) Review Thread | (90/100 OpenCritic)

Anyone having controller issues on Xbox one? As soon as I touch the left stick it gets stuck on auto down. Weird bug.

Still, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
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I’d go steam, they games probably drm free on both and steam has a Linux client and cloud saves and workshop

noctisatrae, do piracy w How to *not* get ratted whilst cheating in Minecraft

Playing like a cheater is fun in anarchy servers because every does it and it creates a new way of playing.

But cheating on servers not made for that, you’re a cunt.

0000000nowhere, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?

Steam because I’m a sucker for achievements. Sue me.

GenericBob,

Gog has achievements though?

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