Now don't get me wrong I love GOG. I love that they have old games. I love that they try and make older games playable on newer systems. It's just great all around. However, what is the benefit of buying newer games like say the Witcher series on GOG as opposed to Steam? I already had the Witcher series on steam before I found out about GOG so I'm just using that as an example. ( and this is of course assuming the prices for the games are the same)

Oh just what we needed, another one of these threads!

Because you don't have to use Steam?

Seriously, if you don't see a benefit to using GOG over Steam, then there is no benefit to you.

I like GOG because I don't need a client to run my GOG games (don't get me wrong, I use Steam as well) and can install my games on an off-line rig without any hassle whatsoever. Granted, some games on Steam can be run without the Steam client, but it's more work to get them running on an offline rig than GOG's installers.

One of THESE threads? Ok then.

Barca vs Real

For me it is to get the nice offline installers for said games, which don't require me to use a client. I really like that.

Plus, specifically for The Witcher series, GOG.com and CDPR (the makers of the Witcher games) are sister companies, so in a way you are supporting the developers of The Witcher games more by buying them from GOG instead of Steam (or at least their parent company). A bit like you support the makers of Half-life 2 by buying the game from Steam. I originally came to GOG.com in 2011 when I read somewhere that you can buy The Witcher (and The Witcher 2) DRM-free here, digitally. So I don't have the said games on Steam, and I am fine.

So I didn't specifically come to GOG.com for old games, albeit they are nice too (especially rare and wanted releases I don't have as retail games already, or were hard to get to run on modern systems).
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Barca of course.

Offline installers. If you do not care for that t makes no difference for the games itself. If you are into meta features; community chat, nasa flight tickets and whatever else Steam might or might not offer that might be better for you. But gog plays catchup with galaxy in regards of unrelated fluff.

My thoughts exactly. :)

There are a few games on Steam that I wish were available here, but I rather not use their service, even if that means I'll never play those games.

Apart from DRM-free and getting the standalone downloaders, probably just that most people prefer to have their digital games collection on one platform (as much as possible).

-Steam is a drm and gog is not a drm

- In steam you have to be logged in for everything. In gog you will be able to get offline achievements, see your offline games time, your offline friends list

-En gog its developers listen to users. In steam valve does not listen to its users

-In steam the level depends on paying money for letters.In gog in the future surely there is a scoring system that does not depend on the user spending more money

Every day there are more people in gog.

Actually Steam isn't the DRM, the choice of the developers to make the client mandatory is. There are plenty of games on Steam that are DRM free, a nice convenient fact that you lot are good at ignoring.

Also, you still need a web browser to downloaded your games which is no different from any client. No web browser, no downloads.
these points are not true. Plenty of games just need to be downloaded once and then can play without the client being installed. That and there are plenty of devs in the steam forums taking notes from buyers and fixing up their games.

Agreed here. Hell, there's even a thread floating around with a list of games you can run without the Steam client.

Disagree here. This statement is almost as disingenuous as saying Steam is DRM. Sure, you need a browser to DL anything. But Steam is an extra piece of software. So it's not like here on GOG where the browser is all you need to grab your game files. You do need to DL, install, and sign in to an extra piece of software before you can grab your Steam games.

That and if you have a computer, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a browser already.

That is splitting hairs over an insignificant technicality. The “plenty” you speak of is almost nothing compared to how often Steam is DRM.

How is "plenty" quantified in relation to the amount of games for which Steam is DRM? So Steam is DRM 99.999999999% of the time, and not DRM .000000001% of the time. For almost all practical purposes, Steam is DRM.

To claim Steam is not DRM is much more disingenuous, given that Steam is DRM 99.999999% of the time. To say Steam is not DRM is equivalent to saying that non-working clocks do work because they are correct for two minutes per every 24 hours.