should i download epic store and GOG?

[fnv]

since the removal of regional prices i will probably never buy a game again so i was thinking about downloading these two platforms.
are the games on them worth it?
do they have regional prices?

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Epic for free games, never buy there.

GOG for some good deals and a good library of classic games, some of which aren't on Steam.

[Electric Cupcake]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Arnold Judas Rimmer:

Epic for free games, never buy there.

GOG for some good deals and a good library of classic games, some of which aren't on Steam.

And the benefit of being able to completely get rid of achievements.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Electric Cupcake:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Arnold Judas Rimmer:

Epic for free games, never buy there.

GOG for some good deals and a good library of classic games, some of which aren't on Steam.

And the benefit of being able to completely get rid of achievements.

What do you mean?

[Electric Cupcake]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Arnold Judas Rimmer:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Electric Cupcake:

And the benefit of being able to completely get rid of achievements.

What do you mean?

They're annoying and pointless and nobody over the age of 12 cares about them, and disabling them really should be an option with Steam.

[lightwo]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Electric Cupcake:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Arnold Judas Rimmer:

What do you mean?

They're annoying and pointless and nobody over the age of 12 cares about them, and disabling them really should be an option with Steam.

I feel like having an optional feature is better than excluding a feature due to subjective preference.

That being said, while I forgot the repository name (edit: comet[github.com]), there is a WIP project that enables GOG features like achievements on Linux without using Galaxy at all.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Electric Cupcake:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Arnold Judas Rimmer:

What do you mean?

They're annoying and pointless and nobody over the age of 12 cares about them, and disabling them really should be an option with Steam.

You can just ignore them, or turn Steam UI off. I'm all for being able to go into settings and just turn off trophy pop ups though. I prefer more user options than less.

[Birds]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Electric Cupcake:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Arnold Judas Rimmer:

What do you mean?

They're annoying and pointless and nobody over the age of 12 cares about them, and disabling them really should be an option with Steam.

They're a part of Steam's gameplay data gathering apparatus.

People can use OS' besides Windows, but using a launcher besides Steam is tough. Allowing people to disable it would encourage the very user base whose data they want to extract value from, people who know how to install Linux, to disable it.

[Amuro0079]

Why not? Alan Wake 2 is my first purchase from Epic, and I absolutely love the game, and they even gave me 5% cashback to use on next purchase. Don't let your hate make you miss out on good games.

[Ganger]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Amuro0079:

Why not? Alan Wake 2 is my first purchase from Epic, and I absolutely love the game, and they even gave me 5% cashback to use on next purchase. Don't let your hate make you miss out on good games.

Amuro0079, your wasting your breath. You can't convince fanboys no matter what you say because they simply won't listen.

Throughout the years on these forums, users have slated other companies for doing bad anti-consumer practises while at the same time will defend, keep silent, turn a blind eye or simply make some excuse if valve does the same thing. And if you call them out, you are called a shill or some other name.

I like steam, it's my first choice for PC gaming but im also not stupid, I know the value of money and I know how and where to spend to maximise my spending ability. I would be silly to spend more money buying a game on steam if that same game is sold cheaper elsewhere...

[Amuro0079]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ganger:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Amuro0079:

Why not? Alan Wake 2 is my first purchase from Epic, and I absolutely love the game, and they even gave me 5% cashback to use on next purchase. Don't let your hate make you miss out on good games.

Amuro0079, your wasting your breath. You can't convince fanboys no matter what you say because they simply won't listen.

Throughout the years on these forums, users have slated other companies for doing bad anti-consumer practises while at the same time will defend, keep silent, turn a blind eye or simply make some excuse if valve does the same thing. And if you call them out, you are called a shill or some other name.

I like steam, it's my first choice for PC gaming but im also not stupid, I know the value of money and I know how and where to spend to maximise my spending ability. I would be silly to spend more money buying a game on steam if that same game is sold cheaper elsewhere...

Couldn't agree with you more!

[Devsman]

Steam cultism is dumb.

I have games on Steam, GoG and Epic, and they're all fine.

I tend to go for Steam when applicable just because the others don't have trading cards, but that's really my only preference.

[lightwo]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Devsman:

Steam cultism is dumb.

I have games on Steam, GoG and Epic, and they're all fine.

I tend to go for Steam when applicable just because the others don't have trading cards, but that's really my only preference.

Still, considering there's little choice in the digital PC game market (far more than digital market on consoles), for me, Steam is relatively perfect, but in the grand scheme of things, being riddled with issues, it's anything but. And given that different users in different parts of the world have different treatment, not forgetting international laws, one's "relatively perfect" platform may be something else.

But at the end of the day, even though fanboyism is unhealthy, sometimes it's necessary if it means that a game is made exclusive to one platform, for example. It gives a message that people would rather wait for the game to be available on more platforms than ever buy on the exclusive one, for example.

[Hobbit XIII]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Kat:

since the removal of regional prices i will probably never buy a game again so i was thinking about downloading these two platforms.
are the games on them worth it?
do they have regional prices?

Cannot speak for regional pricing.
Gog I now buy games from because once bought in theory I am not beholden to keep updating the OS for games that already work on my system.

I like the layout of GoG and they have great sales. The games are not as numerous nor as regularly 'new' as Steam.
But for me and my tastes I am happy with GoG. You can just go on there not even sign up and look around what to buy.
As usual I put stuff I like look of on wishlist and wait for sales.

Sleeping Dogs with the expansions got a for a £2.50 or somethng silly compared to what a great game it is. - note that game does not work well on low end systems and adjustments need to be made if using low end system.

Hitman Blood Money replaying that again £2 soemthing.
Close Combat 5 dated by today's standards but I just love the gameplay on it.

[76561198356019466]

if you go to GOG, check into the forum and say hi for me.

[tyl0413]

GOG is great, they've got a large library especially of old games, the launcher is competent, very generous refund policy and most importantly you own everything, no launchers, no accounts, no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ required to play, after download you can just play whenever.