yeah on gog too

[Ibadgrammar]

i actually own game not just license

[Kleerex]

Oh my sweet summer child

[FEEP]

your profile background is hella creepy as well as your screenshots you proudly display

[Telzen]

Pretty sure GoG is the same as steam and every other online store. Can you transfer your copy to someone else? If not, then its the same as steam, you just own a license.

[GlowWorm]

Good for you. Go hang out in the GoG forums, and help players there have fun with the game.

[Metroid]

Originally posted by Telzen:

Pretty sure GoG is the same as steam and every other online store. Can you transfer your copy to someone else? If not, then its the same as steam, you just own a license.

You can download offline install on GoG. You can't do that on steam.

[Coldhands]

Originally posted by Telzen:

Pretty sure GoG is the same as steam and every other online store. Can you transfer your copy to someone else? If not, then its the same as steam, you just own a license.

You still buy a license, but you can also download installers for games you buy there. So you can install and play your GOG games without internet, a launcher, or GOG even still being around.
Plus, there’s no DRM, no mandatory client, and a 30 day refund policy.

[Grimaldus]

Originally posted by Coldhands:

Originally posted by Telzen:

Pretty sure GoG is the same as steam and every other online store. Can you transfer your copy to someone else? If not, then its the same as steam, you just own a license.

You still buy a license, but you can also download installers for games you buy there. So you can install and play your GOG games without internet, a launcher, or GOG even still being around.
Plus, there’s no DRM, no mandatory client, and a 30 day refund policy.

2 downsides in most cases tho - 1. not enough buddies willing to make switch so multiplayer &/ coop affected. 2. lacks steam features like workshop support.
I always wondering why other platforms can't do stuff like workshop, is it cus patent or profit thing?

[The Chosen One]

Jokes on you we have a game as well. If steam goes away we can then use your GoG game install (:

[Cyn]

Originally posted by Telzen:

Pretty sure GoG is the same as steam and every other online store. Can you transfer your copy to someone else? If not, then its the same as steam, you just own a license.

Yeh you are buying the game on GOG rather than buying a license to a game on the digital platforms (a license can be revoked if say official support dies for the game. As an example look up a game called [The Crew] for an egregious example of this in practise. With an offline installer downloaded, even if you bought a new computer, you would be able to install the game without even needing the internet connected).

As for crossplay/cross progression, it's dependent on the particular game and how it has been setup.

Steam has the best consumers tools and empowerment (reviews, discussion forums, metacritic/opencritic/deal panels etc). Most companies don't want to disclose sales numbers unless it shows them in a really positive light. Steam on the other hand provides all the nitty gritty stats visible to the public from the moment it releases on the store. If you make awesome and successful products/services then you don't have to hide or obfuscate what you are doing to mislead gamers in the first place.

[Radical Randy]

why did anyone reply to this?

[AKOOMA]

Originally posted by Morose:

Originally posted by AKOOMA:

Remove your comment for you get banned, srs you will get a strike for this comment.

lol ok

delete ur reply and I will delete mine the evidence is still there brother hahaha, steam doesn't like it when you talk about things related to sailing the seas and looting merchant ships

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by Telzen:

Can you transfer your copy to someone else? If not, then its the same as steam, you just own a license.

On Gog? You should be able to. For most games at least. Not sure about this game tho TBH

[Viper]

sorry but you don't. All licenses apply on GOG purchases.

[Hakuso]

Added bonus to GOG is if they Gearbox you and break a decade old game like Borderlands you can *stay* at a working version on GOG.

We have Capcom adding DRM after launch, Gearbox forcing a login and adding Epic Games content in teh Steam release, Bethesda releasing an "update" right before Fallout London launched, plenty of games adding EAC to single player versions of games after launch and keeping that creepy rootkit spyware in long after the multiplayer servers are offline...

Until Steam lets me *not* update a game the developers/publishers screw up I'm keeping GOG as my primary store and Steam as my "Oh, look, piece of candy... At 75% off!" or a place to redeem humble Bundle keys on the rare occasion anything in the bundle is worth playing.

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by Grimaldus:

2 downsides in most cases tho - 1. not enough buddies willing to make switch so multiplayer &/ coop affected. 2. lacks steam features like workshop support.
I always wondering why other platforms can't do stuff like workshop, is it cus patent or profit thing?

1) it us a fair point, but not as big as you would think. Any game that has multiplayer also has the ability to host your own servers yourself. Although some games might be impossibly difficult to do so? You can also enable cross platform play and use the Gog launcher. I buy most of my ganes on Gog and have little trouble playing with Steam friends.

2)Steam workshop support is not needed for mods. Its only 1 of the many methods of installing mods. But if that is your go-to method, your argument only becomes "you have to learn a new mod installation method"