Why should I use GoG over Steam?

Why should I use GoG over Steam?

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Freedom

i wish humble bundle monthly was gog games, it's practically my only source of video games nowadays

you shouldn't. its just a client that opens other clients

You cannot lose GOG games by being banned because you misgendered a dog.

Not yet anyways.

You shouldn't use either over the other. Just use them both. When one has a sale on something you want then buy it, when the other has a sale on something else you want go ahead and buy that too.
Only a retard would try to be brand loyal to these companies.

No DRM. It's yours, and that's final.

If you can get it on GOG, you might as well pirate it unless it is a quality game that deserves more funding.

No DRM
Offline installers for your games

>It's yours,
legally, no its not yours anymore than a Steam game is yours

offline installers
because it's hip

to support DRM free games and give me more games to pirate

You can download the installer exe and have the internet die and you‘ll still keep your games.
>oh you can just pirate
And get a bitcoin miner.

>Not using GOG to play good, old games

Not even. You have to download the installation files and you don't have to connect ever again or register to anything to play your game (I only play single player, so I don't know for the rest). Now, if you decide that you'd rather keep your porn folder alive instead of storing installation files, it's up to you.
GoG has been the only way for me to play recent video games (I dislike the social, DRM and "renting your space" approach of stuff like Steam, Epic Game Store, Origin and the like).
That being said, you do you.

>called goog old games
>most the games on site are shitty new games

Humble Bundle already has their own DRM-free service (with torrents).

yeah, but that's not the monthly part. i've accumulated such a backlog from monthly it's crazy.

Gog galaxy is nice. Collects all my games from all the stupid platforms they insist on now.

Use both.
>Sync gog to Steam
>You now own all your games on two platforms
>Use GoG's DRM free iso backup feature
>Backup your games onto an external HDD
>Back those up onto DVDs just in case
Congrats, now even if you get both your online accounts hacked/banned/stolen you still have all of your games backed up twice

Some Monthly games were DRM-free.

Is connect still going on?

yep. some.

People on Zig Forums shit on cdpr but regardless of that the gog project was and is great. Drm is cancer, even if you don't notice it, it has morphed a bit as the years go on but gog started as drm free, regional pricing free versions of old games that a lot of the time were abandonware that wouldn't even run properly.
Even with the witcher 2 as their own product, they were contractually obligated to regionally price it and what they did was tell anyone wishing to buy it that their region "wink, wink" was a setting that could be changed to get it cheaper.
It's very much a case of "if i were a better more principled person i'd stop using steam whenever possible", sort of like wangblows.

It's DRM-free and offers game installers which don't require an internet connection to use. Basically if you get something from GOG you're guaranteed to never lose it due to the company going under or fucking you over specifically, as long as you keep a copy of your games.

Steam also sells DRM-free games (it's at each developer's discretion) but they do not provide the convenient, no questions asked installer downloads that GOG has, even though you can make game backups. Sure enough I don't doubt that you can make a backup of the game install itself, but it's not going to be as easy and neat.

They haven't done anything with it for years.

>DRM Free
I already play DRM free games on steam.
What makes the GOG client so special?

for me it is that there is no client

This isn't even a necessary choice between steam and GoG. GoG has tons of games that are simply not available on steam or in some cases inferior versions.

you still need a web browser and need to login to the website to download your games.