STEAM vs GOG vs ORIGIN

[KyD]

STEAM

Pros:

• Community, some soundtracks are free (and again its up to the Dev not Valve/Steam
  
• They were first in the market so they have more games
  
• Big Picture

Cons:

• DRM
  
• Absolutely NO support - what is there sucks so much that it is outrages
  
• Unfair prices - regional Ripoffs
  
• Early Access
  
• No Quality Control - Just a cash cow
  
• Payed soundtracks and no bonuses - just game and fk you

GOG

Pros:

• No DRM
  
• Full support - very fast from my exp
  
• Money-back guarantee
  
• Fair Price Package - Because $1 is not €
  
• Soundtracks and Bonuses for free
  
• Quality control
  
• GOG Galaxy - for updates, friends, online games - still drm free!!!

Cons:

• Less games than Steam

Origin

Pros:

• EA games
  
• Fast support, Good speed downloads

Cons:

• It exists

Conclusion

It's time for steam to die of age and people move and support gog

I've been arround this site for 7 years. I must admit, they "fk players" policy is unacceptable.

[d7602002]

I will continue to support Steam, thank you.

Steam....Don't care about the DRM, NEVER have had an issue where i couldn't play a game or do something with it because of it.

No Support...NEVER needed them, dont' fall for scams, computer saavy enough to fix my own problems, if they should arise.

Don't care about unfair prices as I live in US so I pay what I pay...as for regions, well I don't live in countries that use other currency so no affect for me.

Don't care about soundtracks and bonuses...usually the DLC is crap anyway and who cares about music in a video game.

GOG....Lot less games than Steam....Nothing that I would like. Seems to be older games that I already have or wouldn't want.

EA...Got four games in my EA account...3 were free and 1 I paid 5 bucks...so not a bad deal.

[Black Blade]

What?
I think you miss a few things and i really recommend you take a spin around to see a few things

First of all prices are set by the Publisher, its not depending on the market its sold on (if its GOG, Steam, Origin, UPlay, Deasura)

Second of all some Steam games are DRM free
Steam were not the first one

Also adding to all that, did you ever think why Steam has soo many games? maybe there is a reason for it?
And guess what there is, not only is it the system, that many like and the user support as well as community, its also the DRM for the publisher that feel more secure to release his games here then on a site that basically allow any one to give out there games

Like it or not there is Support on Steam, and ya they will not give you support for 3rd party software, they do give support to Steam it self with all it has on it
But games support is up to each publisher/Dev to take care of...

Also adding to your list some things you seem to drop
Steam Pro: Community, some soundtracks are free (and again its up to the Dev not Valve/Steam

Origin pro: Fast support, Good speed downloads

and i am sure there is more things i am missing right now

I have respect for GOG and there DRM free policy, but its a huge risk for any publisher to use it in the risk of losing there games on a easy way

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Je ne comprend pas

[KyD]

Originally posted by Black Blade:

First of all prices are set by the Publisher, its not depending on the market its sold on (if its GOG, Steam, Origin, UPlay, Deasura)

Not really, they can. It will - off some publishers. Like gog did, but they can.

Originally posted by Black Blade:

Also adding to all that, did you ever think why Steam has soo many games? maybe there is a reason for it?

They were first in the market of digital dist. They forced valve games to use it. That and contracts with some publishers made the trick. That's it. That's all of it. I don't think that other reason matter. Valve games atract people. And if, back in the days valve give us a choise not to use Steam, steam wouldn't exist.

Originally posted by Black Blade:

I have respect for GOG and there DRM free policy, but its a huge risk for any publisher to use it in the risk of losing there games on a easy way

A risk that pays of. If you go to torrent you see more steam games than gog. That's because if you treat customers fairly, they will treat the same way you. Actually they drm free policy works better than steam drm one.

[Radiance]

This thread will probably get locked/deleted. Whenever anyone talks about Origin it always leads to huge arguments.

But I do agree that GoG is much better than Steam in nearly every way other than lack of games. If GoG had all the same games that Steam does, I wouldn't use Steam anymore. GoG is just simply superior.

[armedready]

GOG seem to have alot of games being removed alot this year since Nordic left. I Don't like some of the stuff Steam do but I wouldn't want them to die.

The millions of users who play games on here would lose them all & I can't see Ubisoft, activision, & the rest helping them out.