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General discussionGOG vs Steam for The Witcher 3(109 posts)(109 posts)
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Posted July 27, 2014
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Niggles: Just get the Gog one.DRM free plus all goodies.Despite whatever Pheace says about the backup thing, there is no 100% guarantee it will happen for 3 despite it offered for 2 (was that even an option for 1?).
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Posted July 27, 2014
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javier0889: Directly supporting CDPR is the only reason I need to buy TW3 here :P
Yea the Witcher series is created by the same people who run GoG. I would expect better/quicker updates from GoG.com since it is their game. Not to mention you'd be supporting one of the only companies willing to advocate DRM-Free games. Seriously. Buy it here. ;)
Posted July 27, 2014
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javier0889: Directly supporting CDPR is the only reason I need to buy TW3 here :P
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Ultra_DTA: Yea the Witcher series is created by the same people who run GoG. I would expect better/quicker updates from GoG.com since it is their game. Not to mention you'd be supporting one of the only companies willing to advocate DRM-Free games. Seriously. Buy it here. ;)
Amen. Amen to that.
Post edited July 27, 2014 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
Posted July 28, 2014
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javier0889: Directly supporting CDPR is the only reason I need to buy TW3 here :P
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Ultra_DTA: Yea the Witcher series is created by the same people who run GoG. I would expect better/quicker updates from GoG.com since it is their game. Not to mention you'd be supporting one of the only companies willing to advocate DRM-Free games. Seriously. Buy it here. ;)
Hope they delay the steam updates in favour of GOG then....:)
Posted July 28, 2014
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Ultra_DTA: Yea the Witcher series is created by the same people who run GoG.
Not really.
Posted July 28, 2014
^True. Cd Project RED is a parent company of the CD Project group. While the difference in factual terms is minimal, legally they are two separate companies. :)
Post edited July 28, 2014 by Enebias
Posted July 28, 2014
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AnimalMother117: I know why people mention that GOG is DRM free, but that makes it sound like the other versions have DRM like the physical one.
Iirc, this time around they do plan to offer game DRM-free for all vendors, including physical. However some people consider tie-ins with Steam client to be DRM even if the inbuild DRM funcitionality is not used.
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KneeTheCap: Fair pricing does not really holp up on this one, since it costs more for me than to my russian neighbors, for instance.
Welcome to EU/EuroZone fellow finn. ;-p
Post edited July 28, 2014 by Petrell
Posted July 28, 2014
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Trilarion: In my eyes this was good enough although I also waited a bit (also needed better hardware) and I always disliked the forced automatic updates of Steam that always kick in and take your time away when you really just wanted to play.
Have download limit on your interenet? Bam, automatic update takes you way over the limit. Good luck using internet at 50-100kbps for rest of the month unless you pay extra for additional download capaticy. ;-p

Or you are playing game with Mod installed. Bam, autoupdate just made the mod incompatible. Week later the mod updates to be compatible with current version (might've made your saves incompatible to boot ;-p) and you happily play... exept next day the game autoupdates again and again mod is incompatible. Well CRAP! ;-p

Have sloooow internet connetion? Got game downloaded and installed after waiting 2 weeks for it to download? Well, they just pushed patch weighting several gigabytes and you have to wait another week before you're hopefully (unless they push another patch into tube in the meantime) able to play your game. ;-p
Post edited July 28, 2014 by Petrell
Posted July 28, 2014
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Petrell: Or you are playing game with Mod installed. Bam, autoupdate just made the mod incompatible. Week later the mod updates to be compatible with current version (might've made your saves incompatible to boot ;-p) and you happily play... exept next day the game autoupdates again and again mod is incompatible. Well CRAP! ;-p
The Diablo2-LoD HD-Mod doesn't work with the last patch (but with the one before) and would be unplayable this way.

Isn't it grand to have control over your games and leave them the way they work with the desired configuration and play them when you want to without having to wait if the tiny goblin in the Valve-shirt living inside your system decides it's time for you to update? :P
Posted July 28, 2014
Personally never liked automatic updates, if you have let's say version 1.0 of a game and a buggy 1.3 patch comes out you can't update to version 1.2 for example, there's no middle ground.

Maybe it's because I'm old and I've always grown up with manual patching, but one thing never changed, the choice to upgrade or not was always mine. I want to be in control over the software I'm running not the other way around.
Posted April 29, 2015
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The only reason I could see for buying it at GOG over Steam would be to make sure the dev gets more of the money (in this case, since the dev owns GOG). It wouldn't surprise me if Valve gives these guys a more favorable split to keep them from being anal like EA with their heavyweight title since it benefits Valve to sell games of this magnitude.

I buy and own games via GOG but the bulk of my collection is thru Steam and I prefer their service over all others and prefer having all of my games thru one vendor (impossible but it's nice when you can). I'm still on the fence with this one.

I seriously,doubt buying on GOG will have any advantage for service or anything - it would be a dumb move since there will be tons of sales thru Steam. This isn't EA or Ubi. The prices are the same for the game and season pass and I see no mention of pre-order bonuses anywhere (and hope it stays that way since that kind of nonsense is lame - getting a 10% discount for pre-purchase via either is plenty of bonus).

The whole DRM thing is really laughable since Steam is completely harmless and unobtrusive as DRM and is a non factor if you actually buy your games (as I do). The DRM thing was more applicable and actually mattered like a decade ago when you had to do CD/DVD in the drive or deal with draconian DRM. People should really give this tired and pointless non-argument a rest.

I leave Steam running all the time to keep my dozens of installed games updated - so the DRM side of it is completely unnoticed. If you were to download the GOG client to keep your GOG games updated you'd have to login to it too - so it would behave exactly the same, since that's all you have to do once in a blue moon for Steam too - either way, you get convenience for updates and don't otherwise think about it.

Having a DRM free game in this day and age is essentially meaningless (for people who actually pay for their software and respect developers by not pirating or illegally sharing software).
Posted April 29, 2015
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Voqar: The only reason I could see for buying it at GOG over Steam would be to make sure the dev gets more of the money Having a DRM free game in this day and age is essentially meaningless (for people who actually pay for their software and respect developers by not pirating or illegally sharing software).
Can only say you have no idea what DRM is and by the way you speak, it's kinda pointless explaining it and the benefits of DRM-Free anyway. :-)
Post edited April 29, 2015 by Ganni1987
Posted April 29, 2015
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Ganni1987: Personally never liked automatic updates, if you have let's say version 1.0 of a game and a buggy 1.3 patch comes out you can't update to version 1.2 for example, there's no middle ground.
The number of times a good developer puts out a bad update that completely breaks a game is pretty low. The number of times they do such a thing without immediately fixing the situation is even lower. With slick automatic/automated update systems they can be much more responsive than when they need to not only code, but to build up and package every little deploy.

Part of the beauty of the ease of updates is that developers can update so much more easily that they are more inclined TO DO updates, which means more bug fixes, faster bug fixes, more extra features and content after launch etc.

Steam also lets developers branch - so they can publish "beta" or dev versions for players to optionally use to help test or experience upcoming stuff - or in some cases, developers will keep their older versions around in those branches so players who don't want to move forward or who may have a lot of time/modding invested in an older version, can keep using the older verson. As a player it's as easy as selecting which version you want from a drop down and done. in this regard Steam ends up being similar to having download links for different versions of a piece of software like you might find via manual downloads - where it's really up to the developer/publisher whether they make those versions available - not the distributor.
Posted April 29, 2015
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Voqar: Having a DRM free game in this day and age is essentially meaningless
Speak for yourself, the proof is this site and its customers. Everyday.
Posted April 29, 2015
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Voqar: The only reason I could see for buying it at GOG over Steam would be to make sure the dev gets more of the money (in this case, since the dev owns GOG). It wouldn't surprise me if Valve gives these guys a more favorable split to keep them from being anal like EA with their heavyweight title since it benefits Valve to sell games of this magnitude.

I buy and own games via GOG but the bulk of my collection is thru Steam and I prefer their service over all others and prefer having all of my games thru one vendor (impossible but it's nice when you can). I'm still on the fence with this one.

I seriously,doubt buying on GOG will have any advantage for service or anything - it would be a dumb move since there will be tons of sales thru Steam. This isn't EA or Ubi. The prices are the same for the game and season pass and I see no mention of pre-order bonuses anywhere (and hope it stays that way since that kind of nonsense is lame - getting a 10% discount for pre-purchase via either is plenty of bonus).

The whole DRM thing is really laughable since Steam is completely harmless and unobtrusive as DRM and is a non factor if you actually buy your games (as I do). The DRM thing was more applicable and actually mattered like a decade ago when you had to do CD/DVD in the drive or deal with draconian DRM. People should really give this tired and pointless non-argument a rest.

I leave Steam running all the time to keep my dozens of installed games updated - so the DRM side of it is completely unnoticed. If you were to download the GOG client to keep your GOG games updated you'd have to login to it too - so it would behave exactly the same, since that's all you have to do once in a blue moon for Steam too - either way, you get convenience for updates and don't otherwise think about it.

Having a DRM free game in this day and age is essentially meaningless (for people who actually pay for their software and respect developers by not pirating or illegally sharing software).
I have 7 computers in my house...I buy it on GOG and install it on all 7...I buy it on Steam and can play on 1 at a time...no brainer for me.
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