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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Oct 2018 18:19

GOG has been making moves to give Steam a proper fight recently, to coincide with their ten-year anniversary celebrations.

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-First, a few months back they FINALLY introduced public profiles after a fucking DECADE of not having them: https://www.gog.com/news/introducing_gog_profiles (Public profiles is why I and every other cool gamer will rather pay DOUBLE for a Steam release than any other release, and still no one understands this.)

-Then, they announced their stupid new Witcher side-game as exclusive to their store: https://www.gog.com/news/preorder_thron ... cher_tales Maybe it's not stupid, but withholding ONE of your games only from Steam—when your fucking company has become RICH by selling on Steam FOR A FUCKING DECADE—seems like a super-dickish move to me, so I will maintain that their new game is crappy until I see evidence to the contrary, because I am annoyed with them. (If I was Gaben I'd kick them out of my store for this—which would be a bad business move, I am sure, but I wouldn't care.)

And finally,

-They put out a sweet deal of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Battle Chasers: Nightwar [ > ] and Shadows Tactics: Blades of the Shogun for €21.59: https://www.gog.com/game/collection_iii Great deal, but I already have two of those games on Steam, and access to the third through the CULT Family (more on which soon), so I don't care. And like I said, I would gladly pay double or triple or quadruple that to have those games listed in my Steam profile along with everything else. But I understand why others might prefer saving a bunch of money to building a cool profile, so by all means if you fall into that camp jump in. Two of them are legit great games, and Battle Chasers, of which I've played a couple hours, is pretty good too, and quite beautiful, so you won't be disappointed.


Back to the subject of GOG, as far as I am concerned, GOG is good for two things:

1. The old games they restore to working condition on new systems and sell for reasonable prices,

and

2. The lack of the sea of rubbish that can be found on Steam, and which must be waded through to do anything on that store.

So I only use it for old games that I can't get on Steam. If there is even the slightest chance that an old game will appear on Steam, I hold off from buying it on GOG, and I will keep doing this until GOG's social/profile features and game library rival Steam's—something which, at the rate they're going, I calculate will happen some decades after I am dead, if ever. So I won't be switching primary stores any time soon, but the rest of you can suit yourselves. It's all good as long as we are all playing good games and giving the developers their due.
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