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Steam or GOG.com?

Beskamir
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Steam is DRM. Gog gives you a completely standard installer file that you can download as many times as you want and backup on your drive with no DRM involved in any stage of the process.

 

I like GOG more, but I use both. Generally if a game is on both gog and steam I choose gog any day of the week.

 

EDIT: Also, GOG is owned by CD Projekt Red so if you like that developer (developer of Witcher) and their no-DRM policy, you should buy it on GOG so they get to keep more of the profit. Buying stuff on GOG also sends a very important message about DRM.

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Steam is DRM. Gog gives you a completely standard installer file that you can download as many times as you want and backup on your drive with no DRM involved in any stage of the process.

 

I like GOG more, but I use both. Generally if a game is on both gog and steam I choose gog any day of the week.

 

EDIT: Also, GOG is owned by CD Projekt Red so if you like that developer (developer of Witcher) and their no-DRM policy, you should buy it on GOG so they get to keep more of the profit. Buying stuff on GOG also sends a very important message about DRM.

but the steam version would only cost me 10bucks for both games while the gog version would be 30:( oh well I'll wait for it to be on sale on gog.

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but the steam version would only cost me 10bucks for both games while the gog version would be 30:( oh well I'll wait for it to be on sale on gog.

 

Well in that case I would go with Steam. It wasn't long ago that The Witcher 2 was on sale on GOG, so...

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GOG's selling point is completely DRM free games.Also they have oodles of old games that have patched to run on modern OSs. From their catalog I can get games I can play on my crappy laptop.

      The cake is a lie!!! -- but the muffins are genuine.

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