What Video Games Have You Been Playing VII: The Real Ending is Locked Behind a Paywall

[Timsup2nothin]

You should go for ‘if GoG doesn't have it, I'm looking on Steam’.

I generally go with "if GoG doesn't have it, I just don't need it badly enough to look on Steam" myself, but you have hit on a more moderate approach.

 

[Takhisis]

Many games that are available for free on Steam are also available on sites such as itch.io where you can actually pay the owners themselves and avoid having to clutter up your Steam account (and also you can run it natively on whatever OS you have).

 

[Velegon]

Got a random itch to go back and play The Suffering again, but since I don't have my PS2 anymore I tried to play it on my emulator. The game doesn't play on emulators well. That's when I found there was a PC release of the game and its sequel, so I looked to see if it was available on Steam. It wasn't. So I looked on GOG since I remember hearing a lot about GOG having much more variety in the way of older, more obscure games than Steam. Both The Suffering and its sequel were there for only ten bucks each so I signed up and bought them.

Gotta say, I'm liking how smooth the whole process of signing up, purchasing, and downloading is with GOG. I still think Steam will be my primary method of acquiring new PC games, but GOG is definitely going to be my "if Steam doesn't have it, I'm looking there" service.

Just don't sign up for GOG Galaxy - it is a steam-like overlay - works well - except it has a ridiculously small font which makes it difficult to read and to my knowledge you can't enlarge the font size .

 

[Arakhor]

Even if you do sign up for GOG Galaxy, which provides a handy library/shop window on your desktop, you're not forced to download games only through Galaxy.

 

[Akka]

You're posting this in a Firaxis/Civilization forum…

From my experience in Civ3 and Civ4, and from what I've heard about Civ5, Firaxis expansions are few and actually excellent. You don't even think about playing Civ4 without its expansions.
On the contrary, Paradox shower its games with expansions and mandatory patches, many of them being trade-off between "I really like this part, but I hate this one" and sometimes ruining the game in the process (Cherry, I'm looking at you, I've rarely felt such an undying hatred and contempt for a patch).

When someone ask about a Civ game, it's a no-brainer to get the latest version with everything.
When someone ask about a Paradox game, usually the debate is about "which DLC should I get and which ones should I avoid ?".

You should go for ‘if GoG doesn't have it, I'm looking on Steam’.

Pretty much. GoG offers you easy, hassle-free and no-string-attached games, that you can run when you want and how you want. I don't understand the point of buying on Steam if the game is also available on GoG.

Just don't sign up for GOG Galaxy - it is a steam-like overlay - works well - except it has a ridiculously small font which makes it difficult to read and to my knowledge you can't enlarge the font size .

GoG Galaxy is completely optional and you can opt out anytime.

 

[Takhisis]

From my experience in Civ3 and Civ4, and from what I've heard about Civ5, Firaxis expansions are few and actually excellent. You don't even think about playing Civ4 without its expansions.
On the contrary, Paradox shower its games with expansions and mandatory patches, many of them being trade-off between "I really like this part, but I hate this one" and sometimes ruining the game in the process (Cherry, I'm looking at you, I've rarely felt such an undying hatred and contempt for a patch).

When someone ask about a Civ game, it's a no-brainer to get the latest version with everything.
When someone ask about a Paradox game, usually the debate is about "which DLC should I get and which ones should I avoid ?".

So Paradox makes its expansions behave like Firaxis' main games? My natural sense of morbid curiosity might tilt me towards experimenting… but I am strong and will persevere.

Pretty much. GoG offers you easy, hassle-free and no-string-attached games, that you can run when you want and how you want. I don't understand the point of buying on Steam if the game is also available on GoG.

Yup. I'll repeat my recommendation for itch.io as a platform for many games which are also hosted on Steam (for great justice publicity) but which, from itch.io, you can get to run natively on Windows/Mac/Linux.

 

[civvver]

Steam is like facebook. Nobody really wants it, though it works well for its purpose, but we use it cus everyone else does.

Honestly I like seeing all my titles on my profile and hours played. Stupid I know. I don't know what gog's cut is, if developers make more there. That would be my only reason to support them more as I don't care about drm free.

 

[Synobun]

I want both Steam and Facebook.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Steam is like facebook. Nobody really wants it, though it works well for its purpose, but we use it cus everyone else does.

Honestly I like seeing all my titles on my profile and hours played. Stupid I know. I don't know what gog's cut is, if developers make more there. That would be my only reason to support them more as I don't care about drm free.

I wouldn't care about DRM free if DRM weren't intrusive. Your position seems to be an internalization of the DRM industry belief that "only pirates don't love DRM."

 

[Broken_Erika]

DRM Sucks. Yaaaaarrrr!
I have termites in me leg, Yaaaaarrrr!

 

[civvver]

I don't find steam drm intrusive at all. The only thing inconvenient about digital games is downloading them, but you still have to do that with gog. It's still more convenient than going to a store to buy it.

 

[rah]

GOG and gig speed downloads for the win.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I don't find steam drm intrusive at all. The only thing inconvenient about digital games is downloading them, but you still have to do that with gog. It's still more convenient than going to a store to buy it.

Valve DRM includes "presence of Steam" checks, requiring you to keep Steam on your machine taking up space. Advanced Valve DRM includes "Steam running" checks, requiring it to not only be taking up space but actively consuming system resources. All for the purpose of allowing Valve to shove the Steam store in your face.

 

[civvver]

Gah my brother sucked me back into Dota2 when I visited his house. He has 2 pcs so we play in the same room. It's awesome. But then I went home and played 7 games last night, up til 3 am, really stupid, got like 3.5 hours of sleep. When you start losing it's like you have to keep playing until you win one. It's rough. I'm very rusty too, probably would've won at least 1 earlier game if I was on top of things. Techies was in 3 of those 7 games, just awful to play with or against.

 

[Takhisis]

It gets to you, doesn't it?

(and I feel the game is conspiring against me. In the tutorial for a melée hero I ‘randomly’ drew ranged enemies)

 

[FriendlyFire]

Had my fill when LOL first came out, I did give Dota2 a few games but found that it was not fun anymore.

 

[Yeekim]

Valve DRM includes "presence of Steam" checks, requiring you to keep Steam on your machine taking up space. Advanced Valve DRM includes "Steam running" checks, requiring it to not only be taking up space but actively consuming system resources. All for the purpose of allowing Valve to shove the Steam store in your face.

I find it convenient.
I was deterred from using Steam for quite some time, because of all the hate. Once I started using it, I've had no problems or bad experiences at all.

Shunning Steam client (how large is it anyway? less than a gigabyte probably?) for "taking up space" in the age of multi-TB hard drives seems ridiculously miserly, tbh.

Anyway, I bought The Long Dark the other day and while I originally wasn't too impressed (it certainly lacks the "wow-factor" of Subnautica!) I can already see the sandbox mode having quite a bit of replayability.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Shunning Steam client (how large is it anyway? less than a gigabyte probably?) for "taking up space" in the age of multi-TB hard drives seems ridiculously miserly, tbh.

This would make sense if Valve had stopped at "Steam present" DRM. However, by the time storage space for the client could be easily written off as no big deal they had progressed to "Steam running" DRM. Basically, any time Valve finds that their DRM isn't all that intrusive any more they "upgrade" it. No telling what they will come up with when machines are so fast that "meh, having the Steam client running in the background just doesn't slow things down enough to worry about" becomes universally true.

 

[Akka]

I find it convenient.

Convenience is always the way used to make people accept intrusion.

I refuse DRM for two reasons :

1) Out of principle. I refuse to surrender my right of use to a third party. If I pay for a game, I want to be able to use a game without needing authorization. I can't understand people who accepts this.

2) I sometimes am in a non-connected environment (sometimes I'm moving and I have my laptop with no Internet around ; rather often these past years I've had to relocate and it takes one or two weeks to get Internet going). I refuse to be prevented to use my legally purchased games because of this (especially as it's precisely the moments I need the games most, as I can't pass time with InNternet surfing ).

GoG allows me to simply have *.exe I can double click to play (which is the only acceptable thing once you forget the years of being conditionned to accept your consumer rights being trampled).
DRM tell me "screw you, you won't be able to use your own copy until I say so".
I'd rather pirate a game than accept this kind of abusive relationship.
So today, either you put your game on GoG and I will refuse to pirate it, or you use DRM and I will refuse to pay for it. Your choice, mine is made.

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[Senethro]

Old men eternally angry about how software isn't apples in the rearview mirror of consumer history. Their last stand continues on a moral high ground now marked on only the most large scaled of maps.