Yea, if GOG starts releasing more recent games, I'll probably be using GOG more often. Seems easier to back up your games. Though I'm still enjoying Alan Wake quite alot, and the steam cloud save thing is a little useful. Is there anyway to have a backup of Alan Wake from Steam and play it without using Steam at all? (I know you can play in offline mode, just want to not have to use Steam)

I may be paranoid, and like how some people said "IF" Steam ever goes belly up (which I doubt but you never know). I'd like to have a backup xD. Though i have like 100s of games to back up off of my Steam account >.<. GOG is starting to look really good to me :), and there's some older games that I use to love that I may start buying like crazy :D.

Yep, in the same situation myself. If anything, the Steam Alan Wake comes with the soundtrack, while the GOG version does not... but I'd prefer no DRM. Oh well.

I just pre-purchased American Nightmare via GOG, though. It'd be two bucks cheaper via Steam (since I already own AW there), but frankly those extra 2 bucks are worth no DRM to me. Viva la GOG, etc.

I guess the soundtrack is essentially an extra 10 bucks; presumably that's why GOG didn't put include it in the package (otherwise you'd probably be paying 40 bucks instead of 30).

do anyone know, when alan wakes american nightmare will be ready to download ?
i cant wait for it. will it be ready for download in german time on 00.00 o clock or like the steam version in about 22hours ?

It doesn't really matter anyway as whichever version of the game you get none come with a complete soundtrack; if you want a complete soundtrack then you need to buy the separate Alan Wake OST, plus all the different licensed tracks (the music by Poets of the Fall is available from their website at http://www.poetsofthefall.com ) etc. Or you could rip the music from the game, as long as you don't mind recompressed music

I'm hoping it'll be made available from around the same time as any other release but I suspect it won't be available until the same time as the Steam release.

Further if you read Steam`s EULA, something which steam supporter`s love to throw at anyone not liking Steam, it actually says that in the event of Steam collapsing they are under NO legal obligation to make any Steam game playable. Basically they can cut and run.

It is indeed a myth and in the event of Steam going down you`d only have their good will as to whether they make your basket of games available. people are still trying to get money from banks owed to them a decade ago. Only a very naive person expects such good will for games.

GOG all the way. And I`m purchasing Alan Wake.

It's probably a pretty safe bet that you wouldn't be able to untether your games from Steam. They would either have to had such a clause in every agreement with other publishers ("we're allowed to remove the DRM if we want to"), in which case I doubt Steam would have gotten as big as they are today. Or they would have to re-negotiate in the case Steam closed. Which would mean that (a) they would definitely not find an agreement for every publisher and game, and (b) that it would probably not happen anyway, since the most likely reason for Steam to go down is bankruptcy of Valve, in which case they can't afford to conduct such negotiations. Same as other companies that promise to remove DRM from their games. It's a nice promise, but if the company goes away, the entity that gave you the promise is no more. No one is responsible.