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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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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 19 hours ago

Buy on gog if it's there. Buy on steam otherwise. Keep a pirate copy handy either way.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago

If you own it on GoG you don't need a pirate copy - just save the offline installer.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You might want a pirate steam copy if it's one of the games that isn't properly updated on gog, which is unfortunately common with newer (2016+) games

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