I'll stick with my Steam cloud saves and game notes and community forums and community guides and custom controller configurations and community controller configurations and overlay and workshop and screenshots and steam deck and steam link and ...

Also, the very first game I ever bought on Steam was almost 15 years ago, and it was delisted and has not been available on Steam for over 10 years. Yet I can still re-download and play it right now.

Steam is not the evil corporation people pretend it is. Take your rage to Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Steam is not the evil corporation people pretend it is.

Indeed. They're not saints either but for my personal demands, they offer the best arguments right now. I rank funding improvements to the FOSS Linux stack higher than a DRM-free pile of shame. That may change in the future but for now I prefer Steam over GOG. CD Project is a rich company. They could make a Linux version of Galaxy, put it onto Flathub, make it behave well under Steam Deck Game Mode, and put a tiny fraction of their revenue into Linux improvements.

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[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

GOG has the same drawbacks as Steam without any of the useful features. They should cut down on their "owning games" lies and spend time improving their platform instead.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's for the gog service itself.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that's for all content:

and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content.

Which they define as:

1.3 Also, when we're talking about games, in-game content, virtual items or currency or GOG videos or other content or services which you can purchase or access via GOG services, we’ll just call them “GOG games” or “GOG videos” respectively and when we talk about them all together they are “GOG content”.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The license is with regards to "GOG Service", not "GOG Contents". You need the former to get access to the latter, sure. But what isn't clear about this?

You still own the contents (though, as mentioned, individual titles may have additional blablabla). If you don't think this distinction makes sense when it comes to GoG vs Steam, then maybe you're just discussing something entirely different?

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[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately the VR game selection in GOG seems pretty slim and they might still need steam VR to run anyways so either way i don't have much choice.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What the hell happened to Steam's built in offline backup system, anyway? It used to have that when it was brand new.

[–] chameleon@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It technically still exists in the game properties -> installed files tab, but it doesn't really work. The backup files you get require you to be online to meaningfully restore and will trigger a patch to the latest game version.

Practically speaking it's better to just make a copy of the game install directory manually, gives you a better chance of things working (even though most games require some kind of external tooling for that).

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 week ago

It's still there. But I never tried it and it probably won't work with DRMed games.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't remember that ever being a thing. It's had an offline mode for decades, but for the longest time it never worked properly.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It had a way of packing a game into a CD/DVD when it launched. I used it all of two times. It was slow as fuck. If it still has it, as another commenter suggests, I don't know how to access it.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sure, and if you don't uninstall Galaxy, go through some hidden menus and download the installers then your GOG games will be gone regardless.

[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't need to ever interact with Galaxy to play your games, not even to download the offline installer. And the download option is not hidden on the website.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That's a failure to download the installers to begin with, not them being taken away from you after the fact.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which neatly sums up why I do not and will not even have a Steam account, but buy many games from GOG.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You realise GOG sells DRM games right?

[–] style99@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Like...?

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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Love gog but fuck them for spamming my email. I found out to claim the new games it'll auto subscribe you to the news letter. So I stopped claiming the games. But still I get emails for promotions and crap. More annoying then freaking scam callers. I've unsubscribed every time I get one and stopped claiming free games. I'm so close to just cut my loses and delete my account but I feel like that still won't stop those parasites

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How weird, I wonder if there's something wrong with my GOG account? I don't think I've received an email from them in years?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, if you claim the giveaways you have to subscribe to their newsletter. That's all. If you aren't doing that, you'll almost never get an email.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Ye that's why I stopped claiming games

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

I see, that makes sense. Thanks!

[–] bread@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should not be getting promotional emails if you opt out, so something is wrong with your account/settings specifically. Contact them or filter your emails.

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