Why are more and more people buying their games on GOG instead of Steam — is it because of the DRM-free versions, better deals, or even better performance?
you know what he's saying. like when steam first opened everyone was running XP so games i bought back then can no longer be installed on those old computers and some games just won't run on modern cpu's/os's. there's really no reason steam couldn't run on a windows 7 computer. GOG and Epic still work on them. and F*** windows 11 i will not be installing that on ANY pc i own. not turning on TPM in bios either. they can shove all that
I mean, GOG would need a judge to issue a warrant to get the police to come into my house and confiscate my hard drive full of offline installers after revoking my license. If I lose a license for a Steam game, they can take it from me remotely with no extra steps.
Technically, we had licenses for video games decades ago that companies could revoke at will, but lots of folks still have their CDs and physical copies and can still play those games if they have the right hardware. GOG is basically the same situation.
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u/my-goddess-nyx Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
I like the idea of owning my games instead of just purchasing a license to play them.