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Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems' (www.pcgamer.com)

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I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be honest I really do prefer buying games on GOG. One day steam will go shit and we will be stuck with huge game libraries locked there. The day GOG goes dark I’ll still have all the offline installers of everything I bought.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Piracy is our friend. If Steam ever goes to shit, gamers would go back to piracy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Steam also never took it's eye off the piracy ball. Offer up a service better than free piracy.

Just pulling from my memory:

Family Share
Easy controller support
Game Casting
Gameplay recording
"Invisible Login" for social network
Torrent from a local area network friend who has the game on their computer
(list goes on)

[–] JackbyDev 9 points 1 day ago

Steam Workshop is pretty nice to.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because you're smart and you are archiving everything. Most people don't even know they can download the installers, they just install Gog Galaxy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

There's always someone in the world archiving stuff, and with GOG the installers can be shared freely if they ever close shop, since they don't have DRM. With Steam that can be a lot harder, depending on the DRM they have

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

GOG Galaxy has the ability to download offline installers. They're listed under Extras. It's arguably even better there than on the website because you can download those .bin files all in a single click.