I meant that in the sense that the Bethesda site link automatically directs users to the Steam version rather than giving us a choice in where we download it.

Differences between the Steam and GOG versions of Arena and Daggerfall, from what I've read:
* Arena: The Steam version is the version released on floppy disks (I believe it's the final floppy version). The GOG version is the CD-ROM version, which has voices that weren't in the floppy version. (I think it might have a potentially game-breaking bug that's triggered by collecting the same main quest item more than once, so don't do that unless you're doing a glitched speedrun.)
* Daggerfall: The Steam version is the original 1.0 release. The GOG version is patched to the 2.13 release; note that it's missing some of the bugs present in 1.0. (Worth noting that Daggerfall is notoriously buggy.)

Funny how the versions originally on Bethesda's site are the ones on Steam, yet they still route people to the Steam version instead of the superior version tat's on GOG.

Well, before they decided to scrap their launcher they would not link to Steam but give you the games on their own platform.
And yes, they made the decision to focus on Steam from now on.
Once in a while they throw us a bone here on GOG, but I doubt that we will ever see the Doom games here, not even the one from 2016. The Quake Remake might make it at some point.

Yeah, I mean, I'm glad they ported things over to Steam as I like having all of my Bethesda games in one library like that. However, I would absolutely prefer having my Bethesda library be completely DRM-free which is why I've slowly been building a duplicate set here by re-buying those games here during sales. It's just a shame most of it will probably never be ported over here.

Thanks for all the prior discussion. Will appreciate those discussions to be moved elsewhere to keep on-topic.

Looks like Arena and Daggerfall are permanently free! So that's great :) WIll be adding to the permanent list.

Might it be worth getting even if I got the version that they had on their website years ago? I'm not sure what version that was. I installed it on my old computer and don't feel like booting it to find out. Win10 didn't even exist when I downloaded them.
BTW, what's the easiest way to identify which version?

I don't know if there's a way to check the version directly, but you can check something that differs between versions.

Arena: Start a new game, and listen to the dialog at the start. If you hear speech during the cutscene, you're playing the CD-ROM version; if not, you're playing the floppy version.

Daggerfall: Start a new game, then once you gain control, press F11. On a fully patched version, this will warp you to the dungeon exit (this does allow you to skip the tutorial); on 1.0 this will do nothing. (This feature was added because of complaints about players falling out of bounds and not being able to get back in bounds.)

The versions they had on their website are the ones apparently found on steam, except that the version of Daggerfall came with the patch, except that the patch was not installed by default; instead, you had to run a separate executable included with the game..

Linking to a site does not preclude people from having the choice to choose where to download their games. This trite is a flawed argument. It's merely restricting the ability to inform them of other choices, not precluding them of the choice. The major point with the fact they linked to Steam was for Steam users to get the games they owned on their site for years to transfer it to their Steam library. That is it.

A subsequential benefit of it now being on Steam is that someone could have told the powers that be at Bethesda that GOG Connect exists so that people using both platforms have the games in their respective versions. Fret not.

Hi all, may I request for the discussion to be made in another thread? So as to keep on topic. Thanks!

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