Captain_Yuri said:
Tbh while I like the idea of GoG, I never really buy games there unless it's free or at a deep discount because of the feature set that Steam offers and Steam in itself isn't a DRM. I forgot which game I tested this with but I think it was the Witcher 3 way back when. Basically I downloaded the game which I knew was DRM free on steam. Then I copied the game into a flash drive and transferred the game onto a different computer where I did not install Steam. Then I ran the game and boom, it worked without any problems even though I bought it on Steam because the DRM portion is up to the developers.
But the features I sacrifice by not buying on Steam continuously grows as Valve adds in more products and features. On the Steam Deck, Valve is able to optimize each game so you don't have issues like shader compilation stutter. But what's more is that I would lose out on family sharing. I have friends in Mexico and Europe who I share my Steam library with and if I buy it from else where, well then they don't get to play the game.
Another thing is that I recently bought a Macbook Pro 16 M1 and while it has a fap worthy screen, great speakers and battery, it is shitty at playing games. (I obviously didn't buy it for gaming). But thanks to Steam's remote play, I can connect my Macbook Pro to my RTX 3080 PC and it works really well cause now I can play games in a different room at ultra settings. And it's reasons like that why I don't bother with EGS or GOG or etc. Steam just has too many features that others aren't matching. |
Yeah, that falls in line with what I said above, even if I do not use those Steam functionalities and features, like family sharing. Another point for Valve.
