Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?

Xirup@yiffit.net to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 170 points –

On the one hand I like GOG because it has no DRM and has better prices (in my country) than Steam and I have the feeling that on the one hand it follows more the open source philosophy than Steam itself, but Steam has helped enormously to play Windows games on Linux, so I haven't really made up my mind.

On the one hand I want to buy on Steam for the convenience, but on the other hand I prefer GOG because (in my country) is cheaper. Which platform do you prefer and why?

To give an example, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is currently $15 on Steam with regional pricing, but on GOG it's worth just $6.

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I prefer GOG, due to being being DRM free.

On Linux I just use Heroic Games Launcher to install the GOG games and launch them. Its just as easy as proton on Steam

Do you use cloud sync with heroic? It sounded somewhat beta/experimental so I use heroic for other storefronts but still use the gog galaxy since it's sync works great and is built in.

I haven't tried cloud sync yet. Relatively new to Heroic

Same here. At some point I'll have to try it out with a game that I don't mind losing progress on. It sounded like you have to manually specify one or more save directories to get sync to work which sounds pretty flimsy to me.