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steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?
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If you want to own the thing you purchase: gog
If you want to fund a billionaire super yacht and be subject to the whims of a large corporation run by a billionaire: steam
To me there's no contest but a lot of people on lemmy are corporate shills.
It's true that gog is better, but to completely misrepresent why people use steam is just disingenuous, it's a better service than practically any other one out there(aside from gog ofc)
I offered one potential motivation which is giving billionaires a yacht
Other people have already listed their own motivation, I'm not required to represent every single possible motivation
That's not the point, you're being intentionally disingenuous while not giving all the facts, specifically to prove your point. You don't have the paint the entire picture, but to imply that the only thing steam has to offer is giving money to a billionaire is bullshit and you know it.
If anyone genuinely thinks my message is the only reason you'd buy from steam.and hardcore refused to read any other comments besides mine... I really dgaf about them. It's like fox news always says, this is clearly for entertainment purposes only and only a fucking idiot would believe it.
You're again missing the point, and then you try backpedaling by saying you weren't actually being serious just to cover your bases. Jesus what an absolute twat you are.
What are you even talking about? There is no world in which a normal human would read my message and think "this is clearly the only reason a human would buy from steam". There never was. There is also no world in which I am required to provide a serious response. You seem to just be mad I made fun of valve and are looking to start a fight, but you say it's not because you're a billionaire shill who wants to help get him a second yacht. So I just don't really get what's going on in your brain right now except some sort of bizarre mad at the world thing.
I've now rea through some of your recent comment history and understand you just take everything way too seriously. I do not. You may as well give up talking to me.
Also, sometimes games on gog don't receive DLC or patch updates because the devs/publisher forget or don't care. I remember seeing an extensive list of games, ~250, explaining what they had missing. I think A Hat in Time was one of the worst offenders
Here's a gog forum post on the problem - https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_is_it_truly_more_difficult_for_developers_to_update_their_games_on_gog/page1
That seems worthy of being a top level response to the question