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steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? (szmer.info)
submitted 1 day ago by Igilq@szmer.info to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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Hey, so for some time now i had this problem... I have been buying games from both gog and steam... No drm option is good on gog but there are some festures missing from what steam has, for example being able to buy games from trading cards... What should i do? Focuse on buying games from gog and if there isnt a game then buy it on steam? Or maybe just buy games on steam?

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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

I used to prioritise GoG but now I just use Steam for the Linux support personally. If that's not important to you it mostly comes down to whether you mind the inconvenience of multiple stores.

[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago

Something like heroic or bottles fixes this issue and gives you more agency to play it your way.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago

Heroic keeping all your GOG games up-to-date is a revelation, and it can keep the GloriousEggroll proton fork up-to-date where Steam can use it too. Fixes the most serious irritations of GOG-on-Linux right there, no reason not to prefer it over Steam (if they have it).

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