I bought Prince of Persia and Beyond Good and Evil from GOG tonight. While it's a great deal on Steam, I would rather support GOG.

I find it absolutely ridiculous that people are whining about the difference of $4 when they are already getting a great deal. There's tons of games I would pounce on for $10, even more so for $6. Besides, these games are also $10 elsewhere so why should GOG's prices be any less?

I remember that. I bought the first Oddworld from GoG and then bought the pack from STEAM when they had the sale. And I will buy the weekend Ubisoft deal just because I want to try the DMM&M game, but I will eventually re-buy Far Cry and BG&E on GoG. Why? I just like carrying the games on my thumb drive and I like the eye candy of GoG's game shelf whenever I purchase a game. Also the bonus wallpaper/soundtrack are a real nice extra.

Check out GamersGate (operated by Paradox Interactive). They sell a wide variety of games, including many recent releases and all Paradox-published titles. I haven't used it myself, however, so I'm not sure what sort of DRM it implements or how things like patches work.
DRM seems to be similar to retail versions, although they do not mention what DRM is included. I have one game from them that contacts an authentication server and only has 5 activations. I've had another which contacts an activation server but has no limitations. And others that do none of that, so it's pretty much all down to guessing. Unfortunately.
Patches however, are hosted on their servers and you can choose which patch to apply from the ones available. One of my games has 5 patches listed for it and you can just download which ever ones you want.
There is no auto patching like Steam, of course, there doesn't appear to be any assurance that the patches will always be available either, but you could always just save them to your HD.

steam version of farcry is buggy as hell, it will need a patch if ubs decides to release it here, if it gets said patch I will definitely buy it.

I wonder if they'll make the 64bit patch available as well?

THE TRUTH.
How it is in Poland. I like how picture shows 4 games, but ther are 3 games on the list! :)

why would dark messiah be banned?!

They just don't sell it in central Europe ... Noone knows why :D

I already own physical copies of Dark Messiah and Beyond Good and Evil, and you can legally download Far Cry two and PoP Sands of Time completely for free if you're willing to put up with a single ad during the load screens.
I do want IL2 Sturmovik though, but if it's only the one game I might as well get it on GoG where I don't need to run Steam to play it, and get a few little extras.
I ended up getting Assassin's Creed. Great concept, so so execution. Better than Far Cry 2 though. Crappy ending, predictable cliffhanger.
It's just tons of fun running and jumping around though, and the combat system is neat.

As far as I know that deal has ended, and the ad-supported versions are no longer playable.

Oh well, I'm not too interested in Far Cry anyway. Beat it, it was so so. Prince of Persia might be fun, but the sequel sucks so I don't know if I want to get into it. Ubisoft are pretty unreliable aren't they?

Isn't that false marketing? Ubi/Steam could be charged for not providing what their advetisement says

Steam could just argue they weren't bovvered to create a new ad that only had three games.