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Infested with DRM, bloat, and terrible terms of service. Not for the feint of heart. See More
Linux support is generally overlooked. It is recommended to disable in-game overlay and to use a real browser to interact with steampowered's website. Basic library access works usually without a hitch. Also do not expect real tech support on Linux. Forum questions of bugs often go unattended and unanswered. See More
Steam has daily and weekend sales as well as publisher sales, though their biggest sales are their winter and summer sales. Steam is known for their deep discounts (discounts on games range from 10% to 95%) on games and has pushed many other stores to do the same seeing Amazon and other storefronts match their pricings when sales go up as well as hold their own seasonal sales. See More
I would mostly recommend GOG because of CD Projekt (spell?) Red's ethics. That said, they do have a fairly wide selection of games... If you are into retro. They do have a few AAA/AA games, but not many, and I don't believe I've ever seen indie's on there. I still use steam mostly because 90% of my library is there, but I buy from GOG whenever I can. Hopefully GOG picks up a bit and gets to a point where they can compete with valve and epic. And get the attention of more AAA/AA developers willing to go DRM free. But until then, most of my purchases are going to be on steam unfortunately. See More
~30% of my once bought Linux games won't launch anymore if I dont add some manual hacks. See More
I initally loved this Store and bought over 200 Games on it over the years, but then things got darker: There is still no Galaxy Linux client as promised They discontinued the GOG Downloader and forced everyone to use Galaxy They also sell DRMed games (eg CD-Keys and other methods like Online Accounts etc.) Some of my older Linux games fail now to lauch, since they haven't been updated since years Unlike Steam they still sell broken and unsupported games to their customers(eg games with shutted down multiplayer servers) See More
GOG may charge more in some regions as publishers request so. But in those cases they give the extra cash back as credits for buying another game. For example, the lowest price for the game is U$20 in US, but if in your region it costs U$30 they will give you U$10 back as credits for your next purchase. See More
Good old games focuses on resurrecting the wonderful games of a decade past, these are the titles publishers are most willing to give up drm control over and turn another set of profits on. Few recent released are joining the platform at time of writing. Expecting to see large publisher conglomerates like EA ever recognizing the gog platform over reselling their own drm copies of legacy games is not likely. See More
Humble Bundle offers bundles of games for pay what you want pricing. These happen quite often with indie bundles, publisher bundles as well as weekly bundles. There are different tiers to the bundles that go higher in price depending on how many games one wants from the bundle. The higher tiers have a higher price floor but still offer considerable discounts on games. All bundles payments can be put towards a charity for that bundle as well as towards the developer or the HB themselves. See More
The way Humble Bundle works is that it is donation based in that you can pay what you want for the bundle, with the minimum being a dollar. There are separate packages in each bundle that also ask for a minimum price, which depends on the "beat the average" price which is what on average has been donated so far. See More
Humble basically has a moral high ground shield and its bundles trigger the idea that discounts are charitable towards the buyer and that everybody wins. This is not true. Most people don't fiddle with the sliders and money going to charity isn't going to someone else (and hint, it's not taken from Humble's cut). See More
to many issues when I tried to purchase and play games through origin See More
Uplay is the reason why I don't buy Ubisoft titles anymore! It is annoying as hell for example If you buy a game on steam and want to launch it under windows: it opens steam which then opens uplay which then updates your game the next half hour before you can play it. See More