Humble's more or less a gateway to Steam, DRM Free there isn't as important as it used to be.

If I want it,I buy it and it doesn't matter where as Gog is not the only seller.

Yep, best to keep all those eggs in one basket. WCGW?

WCGW?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCGW

But seriously 'nothing' can go wrong because as a GOG only (these days, i have hundreds of games on DVD from years back) gamer i actually own all the games i have on GOG. They are all (well nearly all) stored safely in my HDD's ready to be played whenever i want on any PC i chose to have at the time of playing.

They are mine. I own them. Nothing short of Global Thermo Nucear war can ever stop me playing them.

Steam games on the other hand........not so.

Well, the eggs are never in one basket here. Nobody but yourself can prevent you from accessing your regularly purchased GOG games.
As I always say, while it's true that you don't own the game, you DO own the copy and you can use it as you please as far as laws go.

I have been a GOG-only customer for a while, but not really by choice; while I do like the service and I have no serious gripes with it (it would be my main shop regardless), the fact that I buy only here is mostly due to the fact that there is no serious alternative for a DRM-free game store, sometimes not even the devs themselves offer the best support.

That's one hell of a circle jerk.

Ouch! Feel the Burn Hello Games! ;)

WCGW = What Could Go Wrong?

And if you own these games, could you legally sell me one of them? Or legally lend me one of them? Or legally mod one and redistribute it? I could carry on with examples but you get my point, I hope. What you actually own is a DRM-free licence and nothing more. While that has some big advantages over a licence protected by DRM, you don't own as much as you think you do.

Semantics. You are correct, but I doubt that is what the poster meant.
I wrote it in my comment above, but I'll repeat: nobody (well, except for the titular companies of course!) ever owned a game, a movie or a music track.
Still, each buyer used to own a copy, and that is what still applies on GOG. There is no difference between an old DRM-free CD like, let's say, Gothic 2 Night of the Raven and its GOG version.

Well, I don't actually have any other services that I shop at. Just a bunch of Humble Bundles I claimed a long time ago.

GamerGate's catalogue is garbage these days and DotEmu closed down, so yeah, GOG's the only place I actually buy from.

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As Enebias mentioned above, this is semantics to a large degree. But to answer your question i could do all the above, except the 'legally' part. Heck even Amazon have been caught selling GOG exe's!

But the real point is about having full control of my game copy. I can install it anywhere i want without restrictions. I can play my game anytime, anywhere in the world without having it have to connect to a remote server.

I can mod it, patch it EXACTLY as i like without a third party stepping in to say hold on, but no. If GOG went out of business it would not stop me playing those games right at that moment, as once i buy and download a game on GOG i no longer rely on GOG to give me access to that game. It is mine in the full sense of the word.

It's quite simple really, the difference and value GOG offers over services like Steam. Worlds apart in relation to being on the gamers side first and foremost, business second.

Sure Steam saved PC games back when consoles were the big show, but Steam has only ever really been interested in itself. There is little altruism in what it does or what it says, except perhaps when external threats to it's business come along (MS Store etc and Gabe's correct statements on why this is bad). If Steam was fully for the gamer it would operate more like GOG does.

Steam is about BEING the control. GOG is about giving you the gamer the control. Very different psychology.

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