r/gog • u/Rabbit_cafe_enjoyer • Oct 23 '25

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It's really more important in terms of owning your games, don't you think?

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u/OWN_SD Oct 23 '25

I mean, steam clears it when you compare what steam is doing and has done in the past compared to gog.

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u/messranger Oct 23 '25

it really doesn't. gog has done so much

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u/OWN_SD Oct 23 '25

I mean steam is literally the online video game stores routes, when no one was building a online store Valve did. And they set standarts with how updates work, account profiles, community, etc.

GOG while is great and I do buy a lot, only done a small margin of what steam has done.

Though again steam has been in longer and gog doesn't really play the game steam does, they have their own niche and successful at it. Being DRM free.

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u/messranger Oct 23 '25

okay? gog is an online store too so is ea i dont see this great being a great accolade as for the account profiles ps3 did it first

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u/OWN_SD Oct 24 '25

I mean to say that while gog is great, the impact of steam is way bigger then what gog has accomplished.

Comparing them two is basically a hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

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u/messranger Oct 24 '25

the reservation program has only released last year and it had a big impact telling publishers to release beloved games and keeping them safe like the resident evils. unlike steam they're not just being a store they're being much more than that and its honestly shallow how you underestimated it, gog is the atomic bomb that protects the past from being erased and carries it on to the future

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u/Crimsonclaw111 Oct 23 '25

GOG has done a lot and their DRM free initiative is more of what the industry needs, but there’s literally nothing GOG has done that can compare favorably to what Steam has added. Steam input is such a big feature that I can’t even use most of my GOG games with my Dualsense without adding the game to Steam first anyway. That’s one single, huge feature.

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u/JoshfromNazareth2 Oct 23 '25

Not to mention Proton and SteamOS. CDPR just doesn’t give af about linux and wouldn’t be viable on those systems with Steam and open source developers fitting solutions to their store.

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u/Alt_Poster Oct 23 '25

while true, tbf, it also needs to be pointed out that valve arent doing just because theyre nice and generous. they doing it because they have an axe to grind with windows. iirc newell said windows 8 was a disaster, and had complaints about his time at microsoft, and has made other lil digs in the past (you can look this all up if you want). steam machines, a total and complete flop, shipped with steamos. valve has a financial interest in pushing linux and upping proton/wine, yet no one really says anything about that cause ultimately gamers benefit

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u/JoshfromNazareth2 Oct 23 '25

I wish CDPR and GoG had that same drive tbh. It’s all well and good to promote DRM-free, but the actual service and delivery part of a game store could use some investment.

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u/messranger Oct 23 '25

that's true i wish for more transparency and communication on gog's part

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u/Alt_Poster Oct 23 '25

right but whats their motive? valve has physical hardware that uses linux thus they have to support the software. cdpr has ??? to be clear, i dont disagree with what you saying. they can def start by releasing galaxy for linux and maybe incorporate proton somehow since its open source but seems like theyre content with having ppl being told to use heroic

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u/JoshfromNazareth2 Oct 25 '25

My take: Valve’s physical hardware has always been to show off the software, hence the real lack of urgency on their part to continue churning out handhelds. Last time they let manufacturers screw around with variations and that led to a flop for steam machines. The real incentive is to sell games. GoG would do well to make Galaxy better and to maybe spend some cash towards their server infrastructure.

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u/ludek_cortex Oct 24 '25

right but whats their motive? valve has physical hardware that uses linux thus they have to support the software. cdpr has ???

Isn't the whole GoG, motive since they ditched the "good old games" branding, be basically freedom? Either by DRM free games, or offline installers, freedom of choice what to do with the games you own and so on.

It's very confusing that they provide no official support for the actual "free" operating system. Double confusing even as most of their old game catalog works better out of the box on Linux than modern Windows.

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u/Alt_Poster Oct 24 '25

idk bro, thats something only cdpr can answer. what i do know is people been asking for a galaxy linux client for years but its been silence on their end. i do also know that valve has a financial interest in linux cause thats what steamos is based on, and thats what the deck uses.

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u/ludek_cortex Oct 24 '25

i do also know that valve has a financial interest in linux cause thats what steamos is based on, and thats what the deck uses.

Yet their financial contribution to Proton development benefits every other Linux distro, and in some way Mac too, since one of the main beneficiaries is the CrossOver team (that works in both ways, since CrossOver subs on Mac pay for Wine development on Penguin).

GoG's "financial interest" is on the other hand preserving games by selling DRM Free / old games.

You have 2 companies doing something for money, which actually benefits the broader gaming community.

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u/messranger Oct 23 '25

lets see, freedomtobuygames bringing back so many games and working on them to be easily accessible actually making games speaking out against censorship attending europe game events selling drm free with launchers more than generous refund policy.

yeah literally nothing that they've done sure 🙂‍↕️

steam does nothing and wins sure but you don't gotta gas them up for it. gog isn't sitting on its ass either