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Posted February 19, 2018
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GR00T: If you don't, then there's not much point in GOG. Otherwise, may as well just stick to Steam.
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Desmight: This is not entirely true in my opinion. I mean, that's been and still is the main selling point for GOG games, but it's not the only one, not anymore. Some people come to GOG because GOG curates its store, some people come to GOG because here is the only place where games always keep working offline, even after 5 years without an internet connection, some people come to GOG because they want to fight against Denuvo and supporting GOG is the best way to do it, and some people come to GOG because they want to be able to backup their games even if they will never do it. I don't agree with OP, because I know that DRM-free comes with a cost, but I think some people around here should start thinking about GOG as a platform and not just a store. Kinda like Steam, only it doesn't suck.
You know what sucks? An exact same game but it costs me more here than on Steam. Now THAT'S what I call suck.

And let's face it, 99,999999% games that use Denuvo won't come here ever. How do I play Final Fantasy XV again?
Post edited February 19, 2018 by zeroxxx
Posted February 19, 2018
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zeroxxx: And let's face it, 99,999999% games that use Denuvo won't come here ever. How do I play Final Fantasy XV again?
I didn't even know that denuvo had been used in at least a hundred million different games at this point (which, for that percentage to make sense, has to be the case).
Posted February 19, 2018
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ppdouble: and you dont hold all games installation backups, do you?
Yes I do. 1432 GOG game installers (English Windows versions) on two 2TB USB hard drives.

I also have backed up e.g. my game installers from DotEmu, which closed their shop last year I think. I can still install and play my DotEmu games just fine, even though the store and service doesn't exist anymore.

As for your problem, yeah, buy games where you want to buy them. If you want to buy on Steam because they offer better prices in your region, then by all means do. I've understood that Steam offers much lower regional prices in many third-world countries like Nigeria, North Korea and Syria, so yeah I can understand if the poor people in such countries have to buy where they can get the games cheapest.
Posted February 19, 2018
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ppdouble: […snip…]
i really want spent my money here...
If that is true, then spend it here already. Since you have not, obviously you are lying to yourself.

At least consider the possibility that you do not really want to spend money here, that you are just telling yourself that is what you want.

Or get somebody else to think that about you for you while you spend your money elsewhere. In that way you do not have to do both the thinking and spending yourself.

There are some other good ideas already posted, too. Maybe one of those will work out for you?
Post edited February 19, 2018 by thomq
Posted February 19, 2018
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ppdouble: and you dont hold all games installation backups, do you?
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GR00T: If you don't, then there's not much point in GOG. Otherwise, may as well just stick to Steam.
While for me personally the ability to archive my games (so that they are accessible to me even after the demise of the store/service; see DotEmu for a recent example), there are other reasons too even when the store is still up and running.

For instance, someone here mentioned his woes of letting his kids play his Steam games, how the service boots one player out if the other one in the family tries to use the same account etc. There may be workarounds for that like always putting the other clients to offline mode and force them stay there etc. No such hurdles with single-player GOG games, you just install the games on different PCs and play them there, that's it.

Also if you have a slow and/or data capped internet connection at home but e.g. a speedy unlimited connection at work or the university or your friend's house, or even the local library, you might want to download your game to an USB flash stick in order to install it to your PC back at home, without having to install a client to the PC where you do the downloading. I've mentioned that e.g. the Steam client can't even connect to the Steam servers at my work place, apparently the relevant ports are blocked or something (plus one is not even supposed to install such clients to one's work PC).

Anyway, I personally keep all my GOG game installers backed up locally now so that if and when I just get an urge to try out some game, I just need to install it and run it, and not wait even hours for it first to download over my basic 10Mbps cable modem line. Someone with a 100Mbps or 1Gbps internet connection might care less of the waiting, I guess.
Posted February 19, 2018
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bler144: Over time both sites occasionally outcompete the other on select titles, but typically sales are pretty comparable. As others have noted, the publishers tend to push the pricing.

There are some differences in how they approach regional pricing so I'm personally only looking at the comparison in US$.

In terms of the one's the OP lists, Settlers: Rise of an Empire had a n evenlower price here on GoG ($3.99) as a flash sale multiple times over the past few days vs. Steam.
Ahh i probably miss that :(

maybe if gog do some extra warrning for really good deals
Posted February 19, 2018
Speaking of Steam, anyone else having trouble getting to their Store page today?

I found some old posts mentioning this problem being the result of Win10 updates, but those posts were two years old, and the last major 10 update was several days ag. The Store page worked great last night.
Posted February 19, 2018
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tinyE: Speaking of Steam, anyone else having trouble getting to their Store page today?
I'm having problems, too. Every time I start to type in steampow23%%#@^&&345 @!!@#@#%#$%^

Shit, did it again. For some reason my fingers won't finish typing out the web address. Not sure what's going on here.
Posted February 19, 2018
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tinyE: Speaking of Steam, anyone else having trouble getting to their Store page today?
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HereForTheBeer: I'm having problems, too. Every time I start to type in steampow23%%#@^&&345 @!!@#@#%#$%^

Shit, did it again. For some reason my fingers won't finish typing out the web address. Not sure what's going on here.
I finally got it working after cleaning the Steam cache and rebooting the PC.

Now I'm having trouble with GOG. I can't fine one other person anywhere who has had the same problem I'm having with Metro. :P
Posted February 21, 2018
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ppdouble: I love GoG, i already bough World in Conflicts Complete on this sale, last week

but other games are way too overpriced to me

For example Settlers: Rise of an Empire - Gold goes now on Stem just for 3,75 and 2,50 on AMAZN

9,99 here??

ANNO 1404 Gold for 3,74 Stem 5,09here :/

Ii really want buy games on Gog but prices must be competitive....

Please GOG reduce prices at least to this two game today, i really want spent my money here...
What?!?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upD6cB9Rzvk
Posted February 21, 2018
It seems I'm the only one around here who doesn't backup his games locally. I love gog and prefer it over steam but I don't do that. Desmight, mainly, and also timppu pretty much express why I try to support more gog instead of steam.
Posted February 21, 2018
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Martian12: It seems I'm the only one around here who doesn't backup his games locally. I love gog and prefer it over steam but I don't do that. Desmight, mainly, and also timppu pretty much express why I try to support more gog instead of steam.
TBH neither do I. :P I just said I did because most people do and I wasn't really thrilled with the OP's tone regarding it.

I do have an external with all of my really big games on it, 10Gb or larger, but that's about as far as I go.
Posted February 21, 2018
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tinyE: I do have an external with all of my really big games on it, 10Gb or larger, but that's about as far as I go.
Did you finally back up Sacred 2?
Posted February 21, 2018
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tinyE: I do have an external with all of my really big games on it, 10Gb or larger, but that's about as far as I go.
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Grargar: Did you finally back up Sacred 2?
YES!!! XD
that game is huge

And Dragon Age and Witcher.
Posted February 21, 2018
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timppu: For instance, someone here mentioned his woes of letting his kids play his Steam games, how the service boots one player out if the other one in the family tries to use the same account etc. There may be workarounds for that like always putting the other clients to offline mode and force them stay there etc. No such hurdles with single-player GOG games, you just install the games on different PCs and play them there, that's it.

Also if you have a slow and/or data capped internet connection at home but e.g. a speedy unlimited connection at work or the university or your friend's house, or even the local library, you might want to download your game to an USB flash stick in order to install it to your PC back at home, without having to install a client to the PC where you do the downloading. I've mentioned that e.g. the Steam client can't even connect to the Steam servers at my work place, apparently the relevant ports are blocked or something (plus one is not even supposed to install such clients to one's work PC).
This is basically what I was saying though: if you don't back up your installers, what's the point of GOG (other than curation, although I don't really see the big deal about it. It's easy enough to find a game you want via Search functions or looking through genre lists).

This all ties in with backing up the game installers, as I referenced in my first post. In your first example, how would you go about setting up your kids with game installs? Probably not by accessing your library on GOG. You'd more than likely go to your backed up installer and just transfer via USB stick, over a home network, etc. instead of burning your bandwidth to DL it onto each machine.

Same with data capped connections: you'd likely grab those installers when you buy the game and have them sitting on some kind of storage ready for you to install when you want it.

These are all reasons to back up your installers. Maybe my first post was unclear on what I meant?
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