Canuck_Cat: My strategy is to take the games slow (100%ing them), finding hidden gems, stretching the value of the games by community discussions, and distracting myself with other activities. I can probably get it down to 1-2 games per month at my rate. There are plenty of indie titles I wouldn't have touched on Steam given the AAA catalogue that I'm appreciating right now on GOG.

anothername: I used to just ignore it. But since a few years ago some games I still really like to buy/play arrived as steam only (Civ5, FO:NV & Skyrim as most dominant examples) I'd say yes, I boycott it. But I also don't pirate these games regardless of how interesting they sound.

Its not just steam, its all singleplayer games with online DRM.

LiquidOxygen80: That's because Steam wasn't tried and true when it launched. Yes, they tied it directly to Half-Life 2, but there were a literal plethora of companies out there who could have looked at their model after and followed suit, and did not. Steam got where it is due to lack of competition from the selfsame companies who were bigger than Valve and chose instead to place their products on their platform. At its inception, there were many, MANY companies who could have taken a crack at it after Steam's success post HL2, with major properties they could have done the same with. Tribalism has existed long before Steam and it will exist long after. Before storefronts, it was consoles, before consoles, it was cars, before that, it was religion. Don't be foolish. It's in human nature to divide, but that doesn't mean something as ultimately meaningless as store choice should be one of them. What Apple does and has, however, is actively enforced, something that Valve doesn't do. Hell, comparatively speaking, Valve's approach is pretty hands-off.

Again, don't get me wrong. I despise Apple as a company and I don't purchase their products, primarily because you were spending exorbitant amounts of money for a brand, not a solid product. I'm not a Stan for Gabe, by any means, but Steam frequently suffers from the atypical "hate us 'cause they ain't us" mentality from those who don't like their hold on their market. Can Steam do things better? Absofuckinlutely. No one's perfect, and anyone viewing any corporation like it's an individual entity needs to stop and examine their lives.

What I've been saying all along seems to be getting missed: Do your research. Look at each store's EULAs, partners, owners, and pricing, extras, etc, and make your decisions based on what actually effects your individual user scenario. Wasting your time judging the people who shop Steam is like sitting outside of Kroger and yelling at people because they don't shop at Walmart, Giant Eagle, Piggly Wiggly, Meijers, Community Markets, or whatever other regional supermarkets you have. Ultimately, if what you're wanting is more people to take notice of and use GOG, don't you think that yelling at the people who are still customers here is going to result in them simply not bothering to engage, thus, sending more paying consumers to other platforms? That whole scenario lacks common sense and is counterproductive.

haidynn: Steam launched forcing people to download steam to get the products they wanted, there were games sold in stores that didn't have a CD in them... just a steam key. Steam then became the defacto way of getting multiplayer and more games began selling as steam exclusives. Steam then began attacking the modding community by introducing steam workshop. Now if you didn't buy the game on steam you couldn't download any mods. Steam has been using monopoly antics since they began. Steam used to have a separate forum and store, consolidating this allowed them to add in more dividing features like the "actually owns the game" mouse which has people constantly at other people's throats if they use steam forums without buying the game on steam.

If you're unwilling to admit that something as ultimately meaningful as store choice is a reason to divide, you're part of the problem. Steam wants to divide the community, their actions are all to maximize their own profit. Division is good for profit.

You're really missing the entire point here. Lack of competition breeds division. You see it in politics as well. When people don't have an actual choice tensions build as does hostility. People need to stop thinking as these corporate entities as their friends, GoG would start selling DRM if they thought they could grow their marketshare by doing so. Corporations are all about profit and once you recognize this then you can see the terrible things they're doing to us to keep us divided and at each other's throats.

pkk234: I’ve not used it as my main site for so long at this point it’s less of a boycott more of a preference for GOG....except for Squenix games. Since they’ll never ever come here or any other DRM-Free store. Especially when i’m in JP region lol.

I bought Dragon Quest 11 the other day and it’s been super worth.

illiousintahl: the direction the windows walled garden is going in