Get on Steam or GOG?

[craig234]

May seem like a strange place to ask, but... gotta pick. Looking for any factors I haven't considered.

[Adam weast]

shouldnt matter you it has its own ingame profile thing so you can get it on steam and a buddy of yours could get it on gog and you both can still play together but steam allows mods but id just go for the one that is cheaper

[jack_of_tears]

The Steam workshop is very easy to use for installing mods and I use them frequently, so I'd say Steam.

[craig234]

OK, thanks, I wasn't aware GOG can't use mods and Steam can.

[jack_of_tears]

Originally posted by craig234:

OK, thanks, I wasn't aware GOG can't use mods and Steam can.

The GOG version can use mods, I'd assume, but it's very streamlined for Steam. You don't have to install mods yourself, you just subscribe to the mod in the Workshop and Steam installs it so there are no mistakes and takes very little time.

[fragonard]

There are piles of mods on Nexus that GOG users can install. No problem there.

[GatyKahn]

GOG has problems with updating tho. You must update the entire client constantly also mods are more a hassle and online matches are lower.

Would opt for steam, i got the game on both.

[Demon of Razgriz]

I would go with GoG. You could download a game on GoG and literally NEVER have an internet connection again and never run into issues. Steam will. You can only use offline mode for so long (a few months, I think) before it needs to connect again to play your games. GoG games are also DRM free, Steam are not, since Steam itself is a form of DRM.

Of course, this makes you wonder what will happen if Valve ever folds and the Steam servers stop running. GoG won't have that problem (they could fold tomorrow and shutdown everything related to GoG and GoG games that you already have will run fine).

I get any games I can on GoG now and only get them on steam if GoG doesn't have it (I didn't do that at the time I got Divinity).

As others have said, you can do mods on GoG, but it is a little more streamlined on the Steam workshop. For GoG, you have to download the mod and manually put it in the folder (not hard or complicated, but the workshop is a little quicker).

Disclaimer: I am not an expert on Steam and I might be wrong on some of it's mechanics, but from what I have read and understand, that is how it works.

[Dragon]

The GOG version can certainly use mods. I have the GOG version and I always use mods.

Originally posted by Gatygun:

GOG has problems with updating tho. You must update the entire client constantly

What that means is unclear.

I've never had any problems easily keeping the game up-to-date via GOG's Galaxy client. But maybe people who don't use Galaxy, and instead download the backup installers each time the game is patched might have a harder time with that.

If so, then the solution to that IMO is to use Galaxy until such time as the game will never receive any more patches, and then switch to using the backup installer at that point.

[Thine Very Own, Nemesis~]

get on steam so we can all play together

[GatyKahn]

Originally posted by Gatygun:

GOG has problems with updating tho. You must update the entire client constantly

What that means is unclear.

I've never had any problems easily keeping the game up-to-date via GOG's Galaxy client. But maybe people who don't use Galaxy, and instead download the backup installers each time the game is patched might have a harder time with that.

If so, then the solution to that IMO is to use Galaxy until such time as the game will never receive any more patches, and then switch to using the backup installer at that point. [/quote]

The reason to own games on gog is to not have to bother with any client. Its the only reason to even go for gog. They made it completely pointless with galaxy client. There are no individual patches etc.

Why bother with galaxy if you can have steam? makes zero sense.

The game keeps asking me to redownload the whole game every single patch again, which is just terrible. And modding is more annoying to work with then on steam. Also some mods are simple not uploaded to nexus or way late to start with.

[君高]

GOG has in DOS2's case been a bit notorious at slow updates. Modders using the GOG versions still don't have the most recent version afaik, at least since I heard rumblings about it last week.

GOG also depends on modders' willingness to upload to Nexus, which isn't always the case since it's a much more inconvenient process than to Steam.

I'm partially one of those. I don't upload to Nexus until it's been on Steam for a good while, and I've tackled most of the bugs so I hopefully will only have to upload to Nexus once.

Personally I never opt for GOG, under the logic that if you won't have internet for months, you likely won't have much of a lot of other things for months either.

[Demon of Razgriz]

Originally posted by The Composer:

GOG has in DOS2's case been a bit notorious at slow updates. Modders using the GOG versions still don't have the most recent version afaik, at least since I heard rumblings about it last week.

GOG also depends on modders' willingness to upload to Nexus, which isn't always the case since it's a much more inconvenient process than to Steam.

I'm partially one of those. I don't upload to Nexus until it's been on Steam for a good while, and I've tackled most of the bugs so I hopefully will only have to upload to Nexus once.

Personally I never opt for GOG, under the logic that if you won't have internet for months, you likely won't have much of a lot of other things for months either.

The part that gets me is what happens to all our steam games if Valve for some reason closes shop and Steam gets shut down? I get paranoid about things like that, so I like to use GoG when I can.

I have decided that if Steam ever closes down, I will learn how to mod the games to remove the Steam requirement (I am sure that is possible). I just get what I can on GoG now to support GoG (since I like their buisness model) and so I have less games I have to worry about if that ever happens.

[craig234]

With over 2000 gamnes on Steam, the 'what if it shuts down' is something of an issue.

Basically, I 'like' gog more in terms of culture and supporting competition, while Steam basically gets rich just by being 'the standard' and taking a cut in addition to making great games.

But Steam does have that convenience factor. I normally don't even use mods... hm. If gog is at fault in being slow on patches - I've heard there are issues - that's a strike on them.

[君高]

They are in DOS2's case. I won't say on other games behalf, but I chat with people at the Discord daily and occasionally with some of the devs. They were asked by modders when GOG would update to the latest engine, and Larian was still waiting for GOG to get their finger out.

This was like a month ago. I don't know the current status quo.

[👌m8]

Originally posted by Demon_of_Razgriz:

I would go with GoG. You could download a game on GoG and literally NEVER have an internet connection again and never run into issues. Steam will. You can only use offline mode for so long (a few months, I think) before it needs to connect again to play your games. GoG games are also DRM free, Steam are not, since Steam itself is a form of DRM.

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I know this is kinda scummy but I'm just gonna state what I experienced: Go to the game's installation folder and find the .exe file of the Definitive Edition of the game (not the .exex where it opens the Launcher). Create a shortcut if you want. Open that file, and it'll launch the game. No Steam related can be found in my Task Manager since I logged off Steam. The Steam version is technically DRM free.

I did the same thing with PoE2: Deadfire to a point that I refunded it and was still able to launch and play the game. lol (I felt bad, so I bought the game again a month later). So far, these two are the only games I've found that does this. Tried it on Skyrim, but the .exe file apparently launches Steam like all Steam games should ideally do.

edit: The game is in offline mode btw, so the only reason you would use Steam is probably to play online with someone. That's the disadvantage.

edit2: For me, I would choose the version where the services for patches and purchasing are good. Not sure which of the two are better apprarently, so I have no say about it.