Quick fact check:

Steam: worth ~$2 billion.
Human body: worth ~$45 million.

So, I´m definitely not more expensive than Steam.

^ 10.19 GOG vs 9.99 Steam is 2% difference and sounds more like a currency issue than anything else (both are £24.99 down to £8.49 for my country). Personally I'd be happy to pay 2% more for DRM-Free without other incentives. Eg, imagine if a game you bought here went through a "GTA IV moment" where the developer pushed an "update" that forcibly removed a time-limited licensed soundtrack. GOG's offline installers would still contain the original songs (and there's nothing anyone can do to remotely delete them), whilst the Steam version wouldn't. Or perhaps you bought a game that's a "work in progress" which received an update that changed gameplay for the worse. Or maybe you even moved country to another region where Steam's client starts blocking regionally locked games whilst GOG's offline installers would continue working even if you lived on Mars.

^ There are plenty of advantages of having DRM-Free offline installers beyond "What if Steam went out of business". The bigger issues for GOG are 1. Lack of competitive bundles (see earlier Bioshock example), and 2. Slower update frequency (due to lazy developers). This isn't a GOG specific issue either as there have been Humble Store DRM-Free offline installers that are out of date too. Likewise, more GOG specific incentives would be nice, but if devs are lazy enough to not do update parity, they're generally also lazy enough to not want to spend time doing GOG-specific extras. Personally speaking, stuff like avatars, wallpapers, etc, matter a lot less to me than having an offline installer backed up (and manuals, soundtracks, icons, mods, PDF walkthroughs, etc, can generally be found elsewhere on 3rd party websites anyway).

Uh, if you don't want to talk with me that's your prerogative, but just want to say it was an honest question (and it looks like other users were making the same points as the rest of my post). A user who has been around the store a while, would conceivably know that there are bonus goodies. I'm not making fun of join dates or saying it is a race as to who joined first (obviously I'd lose that). Was just saying that someone who's been here, and spent time hanging around, would know kind of how things operate around here, so your OP struck me as odd. But, maybe it is just your way of expressing desire for more bonus goodies included with more games. I do share your wish for more of this as a way to improve the GOG user experience so that people prioritize buying here (I have made long posts saying as much).

Also, you didn't respond to this user Mastur_Master https://www.gog.com/forum/general/why_are_you_guys_more_expensive_than_steam/post3

;)

Some of this can be down to GOG's fault, as they cover less regions in terms of currency, in which case they do take their merry time to support more currencies and may scrap existing ones if they aren't used all the time. I think one such region got the boot, but can't recall, Portuguese?

Others though are the developer's problem. Some developers refuse to do anything beyond the bare minimum work once accepted on GOG: drop the game over there and then forget it. They may change the price or even add extra content on steam while the GOG version is rotting. The only solution for that is to keep telling the developer to pay more attention to GOG.

I'm ignoring him because otherwise I would give him value.

I think on occasions we are paying the DRM-free tax, but it's on the distros, not on GOG

Also: how many users actually back their GOG library up?

Lots of us precisely because it's GOG Unique Selling Point. If we didn't, if Galaxy was the only choice and functioned just like Steam, compulsory, always-online, 'the only copy of my game is in the cloud', etc, what would be the point?...

I do.

Everything I buy is immediately downloaded and archived to locally held storage.

And every time there is an update as well! :) I found a program that can automatize backups so only files that are different from the previous backup are copied to my external hard drive.

for the most part i feel some gog games are cheaper then the steam one. geneforge saga for example is 20 bucks on steam but 15 here.

I do too.

If you have many games:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogrepopy_python_script_for_regularly_backing_up_your_purchased_gog_collection_for_full_offline_e