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>>746010281
You WILL buy from Steam because all of your Friends are there.
You WILL buy from Steam because of Workshop support.
You WILL buy from Steam for the Steam overlay giving you quick access to guides and discussions.
You WILL buy from Steam because most Devs prioritize updates for the Steam version over the GoG version.

>>746010281
they don't have good Linux compat, so on steam I stay. maybe I'd use their store if they had proton

>>746010518
just launch in lutris non issue retard

>>746010445
>constant discounts
>make it easy to refund
>great recommendations
>lack of censorship
No wonder liberals hate steam

>>746010572
>>lack of censorship
Now let's not get ahead of ourselves.

>>746010572
They banned Dungeon Traveler 2

>>746010572
>>discounts that have been getting worse over the years, GOG has better discounts and sales events
>>refund method that they tried to fight off but were forced to implement
>>steam tags that are user defined therefore completely useless for recommendations
>>lol lmao

Every game bought on gog pays for 3 more of these dogshit threads on /v/.
Admittedly /v/ is a shithole beyond redemption, but still.

>>746011212
Every game bought on steam pays for 9000 more shilling threads on /v/.
Admittedly shut the fuck up nigger.

Who's the niggee trying to have some weird "rivalry" between gog and steam
You can have an account on both
GoG for old vidya, Steam for modern games, workshop and multiplayer.

>>746010281
Shovelware website.
There are over 100 new games on GOG, but only 5 of those are certified GOOD OLD GAMES.

>>746010281
>everything
But GOG only has like 10k games.
>>746011435
Buy from Steam.
Steal from GOG.
Simple as.

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I like it.

>>746011573
>>746011212
why do white "people" bootlick corporations so much? scum of the earth

>>746011478
The certification is just thier Promise to keep the game Patched forever to be able to run on modern hardware

>>746010445
>You WILL buy from Steam because all of your Friends are there.
I will keep Steam open in the background and play single player games on GOG.
>You WILL buy from Steam because of Workshop support.
There are very few games where the Workshop is the best place to get mods. Very few.
>You WILL buy from Steam for the Steam overlay giving you quick access to guides and discussions.
Steam Overlay is ass, I don't think I've ever used it more than once or twice.
>You WILL buy from Steam because most Devs prioritize updates for the Steam version over the GoG version.
MOOST CONSOOM LATEST CONTENT
good games don't get constant updates post-release anyway

>>746010281
I never bought a game on GOG and never will. If I'd want an installer I could just pirate the game.

>>746011664
GOG is a corporation.

>>746010281
for me, it's freegogpcgames.com

>>746011738
When they added the per-game notes in the overlay, I started using it heavily?

>>746011767
yes but you white cucks literally YEARN to be ruled over by monopolies. you're literally cattle.

worse. not even cattle is as stupid as you.

>>746011798
Don't know why I question marked when I should have pizzad. I had a bad time. :(
>>746011818
Steam does what I want and nothing I don't. Why should I support polacks?

>>746011664
Most whites are just a part of a slave caste called the middle class that gets to pretend to be above non whites. The facade is breaking down since other races can consume corporate slop too now, and corporations don't need their white slave caste anymore so whites are desperately trying to prove their worth to their masters.

>>746010572
>lack of censorship
All porn females must have big tits even if they're clearly grown adults because small chests are "problematic."
>>746010926
>steam tags that are user defined therefore completely useless for recommendations
Ah yes, the database with multiple JRPGs that aren't Japanese.

>>746011769
onions onions onions onions onions

>>746011945
Vidalias are in season.

>>746010281
Steam is the only platform that allows you to own your games tho, GoG lies, they want you to sub for their Patreon thing and I have no doubts soon they'll lock their "ownership" gimmick behind a Patreon paywall

>>746012040
>Steam is the only platform that allows you to own your games
They literally, explictly, say you don't own the games but a license to play the games.

>>746012040
>I have no doubts [schizo headcanon]
fuck off Gabe, go and make more games

Either steam has to take a stance on ownership and DRM do they are going to face more backlash, piracy and criticism.

Their lame ass cookie cutter response of "DRM is good because it provides you with the best steam experience" isn't going to cut it.

They don't need DRM to verify you own the game locally because the license already checks whether it's in your library or not through a server, your account already is a DRM check. You'll never be able to put a game in your steam account and display it or use mods that you didn't buy.

People are fucking abandoning Sony, abandoning streaming platforms en masse, abandoning all digital media.

Steam and valve are going to have to respond because people are abandoning platforms that restrict their freedom.

Whether something has DRM or not matters but ultimately people want always offline ownership forever that means always offline and no way a company can take away your access whether future or now.

Blurays are DRM, but they are always offline forever. Studios have no power to revoke your access because they don't have control of you digitally it's always offline format. It's more like soft DRM.

When you buy a Blu-ray or a DVD you have a guarantee that that media will never be taken away from you. Steam cannot guarantee that same promise fundamentally because of how steam DRM in an account works which is why they need to remove all their DRM so you can play games fall asleep offline from the .EXE

Steam has the ability to revoke your access where's Blu-ray and DVD movies music they can't do that

>>746012224
>People are fucking abandoning Sony, abandoning streaming platforms en masse, abandoning all digital media.
what you see on Twitter is not an accurate representation of reality
I can't believe I have to say this

Buy from GOG
Steal from steam(and turn them into DRM free copies)

Sorry, but the greed of DRM will stop. Sorry corpos.

I want always offline access FOREVER.

That means always offline, forever, with no ability to restrict my access now or in the future ever.

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>>746012412
>offline
Nobody cares about the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We have internet access in the first world.

>>746010281
Reminder putting GOG game on a disc is more physical than a PlayStation disc that you can't play unless you have a very specific manufactured hardware.

>>746012412
I steal from Steam, GOG, Itch, Patreon, and beyond.

>>746010281
>>746012224
I fucking hate that M-Disk and M-Disk Burners have become so expensive because the industry is no longer producing burners making burning your own disks an Expensive hobby. I calculated it and making a Physical M-Disk Copy of a 100GB game would cost me around 15€ (M-disk Blue Ray + Packaging) give or take plus 120€ for the burner.
The company Verbatim currently has a Monopoly on that Market pretty much producing both the Burners and the Disks.

>>746010445
>frens
I'm offline anyway
>Workshop
Does that even work with denuvo?
>Overlay
Turned off, lmao
>Updates
It's the same version bro, just install a file.

>>746010281
Look if it's on GOG and single player I get it there.
If it's not on GOG or multiplayer I get it on steam.
Galaxy blows.

>>746012106
That's always been the case, middlewitted laymen have just been under the mistaken impression that owning a disc means owning the game on it when the disc and the game license are two separate products. Steam can only sell licenses, but you own the storage medium Steam installs them to. The issue of DRM is a separate problem, and in terms of that, the DRM Steam uses is the least intrusive and easiest to remove.

>>746010445
Workshop is shit and manually downloading mods from everywhere but Nexus will always be superior.

>>746012638
>It's the same version bro, just install a file.
This has been discussed at length in the hundreds of thousands of threads Steamies schizo made since September 2023.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14haGnU2kcY6wV6ssBeyW6_mMk6kkVqZX-QvMKlgXGu0/edit?usp=sharing

>>746010281
have you ever actually read the GOG terms? You own just as little as anywhere else.
You can keep the working installer files around, but legally it would still be copyright infringement to use them without a valid license (which GOG can revoke whenever they want to / are forced to)

>>746012224
>Either steam has to take a stance on ownership and DRM
Valve have taken a stance you brain damaged retard. It's entirely up to the developer if they ship on steam with DRM.
Neither Steam or GOG allow you to download installers without authorisation.

If I'm going to spend money, I'm going to buy it on the best platform which offers the most value which is Steam. I'm never ever going to spend money getting the exact same experience a pirate gets.

>>746012765
I'll just pirate the games I paid for, sweaty. :3

>>746012608
Aren't they also cheaping out on m-discs and just making blurays labelled as m-discs or something?

>>746011573
>doesn't have 1000 new shovelware titles per day
And you think there is something wrong with that?

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>GOGoyles are so retard they don't know how to not buy something they don't want.

>>746012608
>have games backed up on Steam
>spend 15 squiggles to backup your backups to a slower medium than Steam
>>746012884
It also doesn't have games like GOTY Pragmata or Palworld. You're a sour grapes faggot.

If a game I want is on Steam, I buy it.
If a game I want isn't on Steam but is on GoG, I buy it.
If a game I want isn't on either store, I pirate.
Shrimple as that.

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>>746012412
Similar, buy if its on gog otherwise I pirate

>>746013246
>Paying for the same experience as a pirate
Retard

If it's not on Steam, they don't seriously want to sell it.

>>746013413
Good way to show off how you collect rather than play games.

>>746012836
After searching for it I saw a 4 year old Reddit Thread talking about it. Apparently they put regular Bluerays into M-disk Packaging. Using Coloring to make it look like an M-Disk and selling them at M-Disk Prices.
If it's true thats just straight up fraud and they probaply would have been sued a while ago.

>>746010281
>no workshop
>no community tab
>no points system
LOL

>Would rather buy on GOG because the sales are good, the games are better and DRM-free policy is quite nice
>Have zero incentive to buy anything from GOG because their DRM-free policy makes it too easy to pirate
GOG is the public book library of digital games

>>746013413
Neat

>>746013532
>no workshop
Genuine failing of the platform
>no community tab
Good
>no points system
Good

>>746013413
you know you can just click on a shortcut right

>>746012737
>all the missing Linux shit
Well yeah, it's a advantage of steam that they actively fund Linux gaming and thus give you access to a lot more Linux versions than other shit. But it's a bit petty to put it in a list.
Much of the rest is still easily fixable by installing a file.
But the Linux shit especially feels like I could make a list of every steam game for not having an offline installer available...

>>746013902
But there's also gamebreaking bugs that have been fixed and the publisher never cared to submit it to GOG, or missing DLC.

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>>746014486
>I backup my backups
Why?

>>746014523
The backups could fail!

>>746011664
There isn't a single white person that uses valves store. It's not possible.

>>746010445
All these and then I'll crack my games with Goldberg emu so I own them too. Gog who?

>>746014558
>t. Nicaraguan

>>746014558
60% of Steam's traffic comes from NA and EU
stop seething

>>746010281
That's nice but I live in steam

>>746014442
Sure... but that's probably fixed with a search and installing or copy pasting a file most of the times.
Is steam better in that regard, maybe.
Has steam also a lot less old games running effortlessly on newer systems, probably.
No platform is perfect and it's kinda retarded to make fill a whole list with the platforms unique selling prepositions.

>>746014576
Why not use Steamless to remove SteamStub entirely?

>>746010445
fpbp jeets didn't like this one

>>746012412
>buy from steam
>pirate from everyone else
yep its gaming time

>>746012412
GOG requires authorisation to download games which is DRM.

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Why do jeets shill GAG so much lately?
Did something happen again that embarrassed the corpo?

>>746015553
>GOG requires authorisation
Yes anon
"""""Authorisation"""""
I.e. an account that has bought the fucking game
>"DRM"

>>746012106
You also don't own your money, at any time the federal reserve can decide to print to infinity and make all your money into Weimar or Zimbabwe money. Steam is just telling you the truth about it.

>>746015694
Yeah so until GOG hosts their installers on a public server I will never buy from GOG. Pirates get a superior experience for free.

>>746015553
Retard. You also have to put in your details on Amazon to buy a game and then ship it to your address and then still you have to have a steam account or playstation account or whatever to play it. Whatever the point you're making is retarded. Retard.

>>746015781
>You also have to put in your details on Amazon to buy a game and then ship it to your address
Yeah that's why I don't buy games from amazon.
>Then still you have to have a steam account or playstation account or whatever to play it.
Yeah, no different to GOG.

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>>746010445
>Asks me to online verify
>Forced game updates
>Re-verification online or can't start game (money stolen)
I to the trash your slop goes Gabe

>DOWNLOAD exe
>Copy paste it into 3 drives
>Offline install with even no GOG launcher
It just works, GOGods

>>746010281
Any alternatives for when ,to goes down?

>>746015553
Are you the same one guy arguing in bad faith in every GOG thread? Get a life!

>>746015846
Some private trackers require you to create an account. Your VPN requires you to create an account. What is the point you're trying to make?

>>746015735
>Pirates get for free.
I had no idea

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>>746010281
>You will own everything and you will like it
truth nuke

>>746016159
I like the fact that it has currency in squiggles, and commas instead of periods. That shows that GOG users are all poor.

>>746016305
it's based in evrope

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>>746010281
>You will own everything and you will like it
I actually do. Feels great having been on GOG since 2011.

>>746016305
good chunk of current GOG users are thirdies
thats why they're lashing out so hard

>>746016663
>rented games: 791

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>GOG
>owning anything
how new?

>>746017203
That's illegal distribution.
Compare Steam:
>buy game
>can legally share it with a method supported by both Steam and the publisher
Sounds like ownership to me.

>>746017038
>rented games
>you can leave your GOG account as inheritance in the EU
I had no idea that's how rent worked.

>>746017203
so you're literally paying for the same process as downloading already cracked game and just having it on your storage device, as expected of cucks.

>>746017256
>steam sissy wants to give his family data to Steam for free
KEK

>>746017292
Paying to pirate is ownership, sweaty. :3
>>746017279
Yes, because the EU is full of poor people who would bequeath games because they have nothing else. That said, I can share my games (legally) in life with Steam.

>>746017319
>muh data
This is the cry of a psychopath. "What games have you played recently?" threads are datamining. Bank accounts are ways to be tracked. Jobs are ways to be tracked. Losing weight allows trackers to have better reception. Heterosexuality charges trackers via penis on vagina contact.

>>746017359
>steam sissy admits he is the one renting
This is what poors do, they rent on steam. Gigachads buy on GOG.

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>>746017359
>paying to pirate

>>746017413
>steam sissy defend corporations syphoning his data
>hated GOG DRM free games that don't track you
Go choke on AI dick you collossal fag.

>>746016045
>bad faith is when I lose an argument.
Spin it however you want to cope instead of giving an argument. I accept your concession.
>>746016062
>Some private trackers require you to create an account. Your VPN requires you to create an account. What is the point you're trying to make?
Yeah and I don't use their services.

>>746017449
>good goy
Yes, I'm a goy. Why are you Kosher Karls so willing to out yourselves?

>you will own only obscure shovelware games from 20 years ago that no one gives a shit about*

Ftfy

Why would I pay for the same experience as a pirate and an inferior experience to Steam?

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>>746017658
Hey GOGoyls, what is going to happen when GOG goes out of business?

>>746017658
I don't know. That will be well after my death, while GOG might reasonably die before 2030. They already beg for money on top of sales and run Patreon shit like movie reactors. The end is nigh.

>>746017769
Yeah I'll just download those offline installers from somewhere that isn't GOG and get the same experience for free. Owned retard.

>>746017775
yep just look at them sending shill wave after wave

>>746017836
You can't shill GOG because it's not a corporation, bootlicker. :3

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GoG use drm and drm services, so i shant be using them

>>746017658
if valve is going out of business i will make it my mission to spam NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER in every game’s steam forum that i possibly can

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>>746017872
>meanwhile I will be able to pass all my gog games to all my descendants forever
the ones without drm, sure

>>746010572
being pro consumer isn't a rightoid stance, you little retard.

>>746017872
I steal the same GOG trash you pay for. How does that make you feel? I STEAL FROM YUROPOORS THAT EAT BORSCHT. Poland is so poor that they can't afford the right number of vowels in words.

GOG has games with DRM? Boycotting. I heard they charge a grossly unfair 30% to publishers as well, and have a bloated CEF client.

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>>746017954
yeah. finally, christ. someone was just willing to acknowledge that GoG uses drm for some very isolated cases instead of bending over literally fucking backwards trying to explain how drm is not drm

you have any fucking idea how refreshing this is. you are LITERALLY the first person to do this, ever. like 5 years of me doing this same fucking schtick

holy fuck

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>>746010729
You mean the game with literal naked children? Way to out yourself pedo

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>Rothshilds lose against Valve
>tons of pro-EGS and pro-GOG threads pop since then
hmmmm...

>>746010281
No no no it's supposed to be
>You will own everything and you will miserable

>>746018234
As if they would let you have anything that's drm free. Digital rights are the modern days interest rates.

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Look, all those games being RESOLD

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based

>GOYGtards are literal redditors
lol lmao

>>746010445
This but unironically
/v/ can go eat 1 trillion cocks

>>746019607
based

I still haven't seen a single valid reason to buy from GOG when pirates get the same experience for free.

If you're paying, you buy on Steam which is the best platform. If you don't care about platform features or you care about ownership, then you pirate.

GOG offers no value to a paying customer.

>>746018158
Ok actual pedo

If you mention piracy, all paid store fronts are useless, also if you are a paying customer, you get the better service on GOG. DRM free and you can keep the installer + You don't need to install a bloated chromium wrapper launcher.

>>746021074
correct

>>746021074
GoG is better than Piracy because buying from GoG wont get the Cops send to your home.
If you live in a 3rd world Country where they dont care about Piracy then nothing can top Piracy obviously. Nothing beats free.

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>>746021074
I hate (You) PC vegans so much. GOG won!
(You) /v//v/ill rent (You)r games.

>>746010281
It's still license, just with a better download.

>>746021926
>better download

>>746022167
Yes because you can "keep it" as much as i can keep a steam game with a steamapi. It's basically two clicks more. The rights in front of the law? The exact same.

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>freedom to support GOG or steam, or you can just pirate everything

Feels good to be a PC chad. Best part is being able to OWN your games.

>>746017932
My dick inside your mom isn't a rightoid stance either, yet here we are.

>>746021754
>GoG is better than Piracy because buying from GoG wont get the Cops send to your home.
That's like saying buying from GOG protects you from being struck by lightning.
>>746021864
You have no argument. GOGaped.

call me American but I always tip gog when I buy a game there

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>>746012412
B-b-b-b-b-b-ased. Anyone not buying from GOG is a cuck, the only exception is if it's a MP or a game that's not yet on GOG.

>>746012412
C-c-c-c-c-c-ring. Anyone buying from GOG is a cuck, there are no exceptions. Pirates get the same experience for free.

>>746022820
Because I like what they're doing, it's a good job and keep the good work tip
If I wanted better value I'd just pirate

>No Monster Hunter hunter games
GOG is useless

>>746021754
>the Cops send to your home.
Kek, do you actually believe people get arrested for downloading some show or game? Whenever they actually move their asses, they go after uploaders, for obvious reasons, not any of the millions of people downloading stuff.

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>>746022642
>You have no argument. GOGaped.
Have fun, rent cuck. I own my games and (You) lost.

>>746023109
You paid for the same experience as a pirate LMAO

>>746023263
I hope you will have stable income in the future, winjeet.

Have a great day, I have no time for flame wars.

>>746013413
>Check this guys steam profile for all those games
>Playtime: 8mins
>Playtime: 2mins
>Playtime: 4mins

>>746010281
I don't own anything on gog, if I'd own a game I could resell it, but I can't legally

>>746023364
I buy all my games on Steam you retard LMAO

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>another day of kikes seething at Valve and Steam for being able to freely modify and do whatever you want with the games you OWN
GOYGjeets btfo'd

>>746023364
>doesn't use windows
OH GOODNESS GRACIOUS SAAR YOU BITCH LASAGNA PLEASE TO REDEEM THE OPEN SOURCE VERSION 0.0.0.0.3-prealpha2 SAAR

>>746010445
i dont care about any of this

>>746024159
>GOYGjeets
You realize this whole thread is just a snoy/tendie falseflag, right? They want PC chads infighting, because they hate that we have so many options. GOG and steam are not competing. We both can exist.

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Why does Steam not give a Offline Folder of the game you buy if it doesnt have Denuvo?

Because i dont see a reason why they dont, all it needs to do is not give achievements and play time for your account thats it you bought it you should own the offline copy minus a connection to steam, thats literally what sony is doing minus the options like PC

>>746024464
>GOG and steam are not competing
That is correct.
>We both can exist
That would be true, if both companies made consistent profit (and one doesn't in reality).

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>>746024552
Because they don't care about ownership, but at least you can easily crack them yourself, still please don't support goyslop stores.

>>746024552
Denuvo isn't the only form of copy protection. If a game doesn't have copy protection, you can run it without Steam from said download directory already.

>>746010281
>No Black And White 2
>No Fable 2
>No Conquest of Elysium
They seem to have a hard time getting titles. It's a shame.

>>746024780
for how long though? i know you need some form of steam connection at some point, im on steam already right and the only games i play are online games because ownership these days are a joke i either pirate or buy from gog

>>746024687
yeah i do that already i think most do at this point their greed is ridiculous

>>746025038
If it has no copy protection, it has no timer. You can copy it to another directory, another computer without Steam, or whatever. And offline mode supposedly works forever according to other anons. I live in America and am never offline, though.

>>746021754
>D-dont pirate guise or else we will send the piracy police after you
Thanks for confirming that you are a shill

>>746024464
>You realize this whole thread is just a snoy/tendie falseflag, right?
No it's not, I'm a PC main and I just think gabe worshipers are disgusting faggots. I use Steam myself, but mostly for online games. I just get mad when Steamies try to shittalk GOG for no reason. I get the hate for Epic, but why GOG?

>>746024464
>You realize this whole thread is just a snoy/tendie falseflag
Close but falseflagging is being done by epicjeets, the posting style with as much subtlety as a gorilla with a sledgehammer feels like a bunch of jeets. The pre-prepared memes complete with a deviant art anime mascot feels like a bunch of people who dont understand site culture but desperately want to fit in.

>>746025120
can you name a few big games that does this? because i thought you have to do the whole must log in after a specific amount of time its why i never buy from steam

>>746010281
ayo I need a replacement for gog-games that shit is shutting down persons

>>746010281
Based

>>746026029
PCGW has a list, but I don't keep up with it because America.

>>746026113
the site that they are passing the funds onto is probably their replacement just need a burner email to login

>>746026157
offline bot site?

>>746026521
PCGW is where you look for fixes for old games or ones with limited compatibility for resolutions/aspect ratios/framerates/controllers/etc. They have a list they keep of DRM free games on Steam.

>>746026670
found it ty

>>746010926
>go gog
>type in horror
>only get a handful of popular games because nothing is fucking tagged right
>bioshock is scary right
>>746010445
Ill buy from steam because the drm is removable in 90% of games and they wint ban me for saying words shekelstein doesnt like

>>746023109
You got 16 arms or somin to need that many controllers

If a game is bigger than 10GB then I simply won't download it.

I have over 22TB across all my drives, but there is no reason for a game to be that big.

It's why I refuse to download hi-res audio, blu-ray videos or any 4K texture pack.

People do not know how to compress things anymore. They do not value optimization in any form or facet.

When I go to download a new GOG game and the installer has multiple .bin files associated with the .exe my whole day is ruined.

None of the original games GOG sold were like that. You had one file and maybe occasional a single .bin. The additional goodies would often outnumber the game itself in terms of storage space.

I've gone into pack viewers to analyze what's taking up all this space in new games and it is always without fail the raw textures, poorly encoded videos and never anything to do with the real code.

I refuse to support DRM but I especially refuse to support developers who force me to clog up my drives with more data than necessary. It is insulting to me. It genuinely shows that they don't respect me as a consumer that they make me download 50+ GBs for a video game when they used to fit on floppy disks.

>>746027517
>I have over 22TB across all my drives, but there is no reason for a game to be that big.
you have zero reasons to complain about game size im struggling to fill 16tb with games and i download everything

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>>746027517
>reddit spaced
>People do not know how to compress things anymore. They do not value optimization in any form or facet.
Those are opposing concepts.
Compression results in lower performance since decompression has to be done during play.
Granted, that's worse on GOG since it limits you to third world speeds, but when it only takes 10 minutes or less to download pretty much anything on Steam, filesize isn't an issue.
That said, you're likely poor and running on a potato that may or may not include a GPL OS.

>>746027762
>>746027517
I have at most 5 tb of space across my drives, and I struggle to even fit half of that. A game I'm obsessed with right now, Mega Man X Regenesis, is barely 200 mb.

Maybe these modern devs should stop bloating their games.

>>746010281
Bought Nox, Arcanum and Ultima VII recently. Been emulating old Japanese PC (PC-98, MSX2, etc.) games lately. The graphics in these games have so much sovl and charm that modern games can't even compete.

>>746010445
the workshop is great in a game like Portal 2 but ruined Team Fortress 2

>silence falls as the samefagging schizo eats his quarter cup of curry rationed to him by the callcenter he works for

>>746027517
>It's why I refuse to download hi-res audio, blu-ray videos or any 4K texture pack.
Let me guess:
>shitty LCD 1080p (if not 720p) monitor from 2011 with the most washed out colours imaginable
>random gamer headset

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>>746029665
Confirmed: Steamies schizo is attracted to children.

>>746010445
the updates and workshop are valid reasons
friends and 'discussion' are for losers

>>746010445
Friends are a meme
I dont support brownoid things like modding
I only play games, i dont need to access any distractions in the middle of a playtruh
I dont support devs than dont support GOG
I dont fund gayben's yatches and ozenpic therapies

>>746027517
>None of the original games GOG sold were like that. You had one file and maybe occasional a single .bin. The additional goodies would often outnumber the game itself in terms of storage space.
That's because Good Old Games were sold on single 700 MB CDs, now that GOG also sells new games, you obviously need more space. Splitting games into 4 GB chunks is actually the best way to distribute DRM free games. 4 GB is the limit of how big a file can be in FAT32 file system, and thanks to GOG installer files being never bigger than 4GB you can easily backup them onto external USB drives, or DVD discs.

>>746030773
Who uses FAT32 in 2026?

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>>746017775
As soon as Haben croaks the company will be shareholder owned and all your games will be fucked.
Meanwhile GOG's exe will sit on you harddrive for eternity, completely offline
And is say this as a Steam with a 100+ game library.

Amazing how Corpocattle vicariously defend owning nothing and being miserable.

>>746030953
yo mama

>>746030953
Most Pendrives come formatted in FAT32 from factory, also Windows formats every USB drive smaller than 64 GB to FAT32 by default.

>>746030707
>modding
>brownoid things
so this is true colour of GOYG jeets...

>>746030953
usb keys