I preffer GOG for "Windows games" BUT i preffer HumbleStore, Steam and Desura for my "Linux Games". Maybe I have games in too stores....

I don't think I've ever seen HB store have a proper actual sale at all.always seems to be just the usual Humble Bundle bundle or their wedontcareiftheyarentdrmfree publisher bundles for cheapasses.no actual store sales?

Humble Store uses a regular, preset price with the option to set a timed discount.

Me too :).

That too. Some of the devs do put their games on sale when they are on sale elsewhere. Like FTL and River City Ransom have been. For the most part though if I see a game on sale somewhere and go check the Humble Store version it is still full price.

Every Developer can make a sale for their games. The "Humble Store" is not a regular store, it is more a plugin. But some developers match sale prices from other plattforms, for example during the last Steam Summer sale.

Don't Starve is the actual Steam Weekend Deal:
http://www.dontstarvegame.com/blog/landing/buynow.html

I was about to say this, so... This!

^This.

Concerning where the money is allocated between store and dev, I don't mind GOG taking a larger cut compared to HB as a lot of that money will go toward promoting DRM-free gaming.

I tend to prefer the surer long term support that GOG provides, but the Linux version for games that provide them does look tempting...

I don't care that much about Steam-enabled multiplayer features, not so much for DRM reasons (some of those features really need a server), but because I don't tend to be invested enough in a single game to use them. The extend of my interest in multi-player for single player games is a LAN connection with my friends.

Humble Store.

I always think that a developer deserves more than the middleman, so I will choose the option where the developer profits most.

I dislike the incoherent installers and filenames on Humble Bundles' DRM-free games, which is probably because HB leaves it completely up to the indie publishers, and don't even try to control it in any way, like GOG does.

Sometimes you can't even tell the game from the HB installers filename (sometimes it can be something like "GS_setup.zip", try to guess the game from that when you are perusing your downloaded HB installers), and the installers can be various kinds of exe installers, or exe installers packed into a zip file, or a zip file without an installer, or a msi file, or whatever... So it seems more messy than the nice set of pretty coherent installers tidy in their own descriptive subdirectories that you get with the GOG (downloader client).

And also I think GOG handles patching better (as in, GOG offers update patches, while HB just offers you to redownload the whole installer again).

But other than those, I guess HB offers more, if you are after the Steam keys and Linux versions. My main reasons to buy (also) from HB is:

- ultra-cheap PWYW prices (which doesn't feel so bad even if I have some of the games already on GOG)
- occasional Android games (I wish HB would have more Android game bundles)

And I kinda like using Bittorrent client for downloading the HB installers in case I want to load lots of them at the same time, it seems more dependable than the GOG downloader, works better over poor internet connections and handles better masses of downloads.

So I grow my library on both GOG and HB, and don't give it a second thought. I trust GOG more though, as in keeping their promise of not becoming a mere Steam key reseller.

Humble Store is not really a "store", it's just an outsourcing solution for developers. Similar to for example Fastspring. There is no store front, developers simply use it as a middleman to sell games from their own site. If you don't know or don't want to write your own solution you just let the middleman take care of it and in return they keep a cut of your revenue. They don't promote your game, they don't display it in their catalogue, they don't have direct support for customers (or do they?) and they don't organize any special sales, all that is up to you. Just use Nexus Mod Manager
http://grimrock.nexusmods.com/mods/modmanager//?

I haven't tried it myself, but if people actually recommend the Nexus Mod manager over Steam Workshop for Skyrim it can't be that bad.

So the short answer is no. And people arent likely to know about any of those sales unless they are by word of mouth correct?.

Correct. But to be fair, this is the same for every other sale. I visit this side regularly and know the actual sales, same for Steam and maybe GMG and Gamersgate. For the rest I need the gaming deals thread here and/or reddit.

Not strictly true. At least when you visit Steam or GOG you can find whats on sale. Many people don't even know HB store exists let alone devs having sales on it.

As mentioned before, strictly spoken the humble store can't be compared to GOG or Steam. Because it is just a Plugin or payment widget for the developers, not a Website oder Digital Store like GOG or Steam. If you want to compare this to Steam or GOG you must count every Developer with a Humble Store Plugin. And if you visit their Websites you can find whats on sale, too. ;)