For one GOG.com has older games that do not have native ports but work on Wine, such as SMACX(Linux port no longer works) and Fallout and Fallout 2.

Quoting: borartrWhy would someone, seeking drm free games only and sympathizing with linux buy on gog.com instead of humblebundle??

Humble Store does not actively push for DRM Free, which at this point I find more important than pushing for Linux support if I am to be fully honest with you, even though I only play games on Linux.

I also find it much harder to find what it is I am looking for on Humble Store, as it is filled with Steam and/or Windows only titles and a lot of its filters are a joke - you can set it to only show DRM Free Linux titles and still get the wrong results as it will include Linux Steam games that happen to have a DRM Free release on Windows for example, which is why I have a great deal of trouble trusting it. Plus they spend so much time promoting Windows only Steam games that it does tend to grate on my nerves.

I used to use Humble exclusively, but right now I would much rather support GOG.com or itch.io instead.

@ whm1974
sure old games are a good reason for using gog, though personally im more interested in newer ones. However its no reason of exclusively demanding a gog version of every new game.

@ Hamisch
Well, of course I accept your opinion, but as manero666 said i completely fail to understand it. a drm free title on a drm platform effectively has drm. its like choosing between being in a jail where you can move freely, or move freely in a world where you can visit certain cells as you like. the point that windows does vanish is propably as likely as that steam does vanish - very unlikely in any relevant time frime. (id take a bet that steam will survive even longer^^)
i get your point about the filter, but to me its minor issue that gog also has plenty of.

Quoting: borartr@ whm1974
sure old games are a good reason for using gog, though personally im more interested in newer ones. However its no reason of exclusively demanding a gog version of every new game.

Most of my games are from Steam, while a few are from GOG. I do prefer Steam since they take of updates for me, which would be a PITA to do manually since I have something like 80 games installed or so.

I am someone who wants to feel like they actually owns my games. If GOG were to go out of business or ban my account tomorrow I have a backup copy of my games on an a secondary hard drive, a file server and soon to be cloud storage. Short of a house fire I'm good and could keep playing my games. Steam can't offer me that. People can argue that Steam allows me to play a game offline but I still have to login to play as well as be online any time I want to download the game. If they ban my account: good bye games. If their servers are down and I don't have my game installed: good bye games until it's fixed. Basically with stores like Steam I have access to my games when Steam lets me have access to my games. With GOG as long as I am able to download my games one time from them then I never have to rely on them again. I don't just shop at GOG, I simply prefer DRM free. I also shop at Humble Store, Itch.io, Gamersgate and IndieGameStand. I am not saying Steam offers no benefits but sadly the benefits they offer don't appeal to me and they fail to offer what I really want which is DRM free. I don't care if my game is autopatched, I can do that myself. I don't care about achievments at all. I don't care about seeing which games my friends are playing, I don't play online.

If anything I see Steam as a barrier to DRM free even if it doesn't mean to be. There are countless games with Linux versions on Steam where GOG and other DRM free outlets seem to never get the Linux version. Metro Redux, Dying Light, Metro Last Light Redux, System Shock 2, Waking Mars, etc. I don't know why they don't put the Linux version DRM free and am not saying Valve is outright responsible but something fishy is up and I doubt it's that GOG hates Linux.

this old school key activation may explain why a lot of people prefer GOG over Steam and drm in general

the game is Age of Empire III Steam version (wasn't Steam enough??)

I really really hate product keys, which is one of the reasons I switch to using FOSS software in the first place. It is a huge PITA to keep track of them.

you guys keep on posting why you like drm free games, but not why you prefer gog over humblebundle, as i asked more specifically in the following post (see also above)

Quoting: borartrNice to see you sharing your reasons. I myself feel a strong sympathy for drm free gamees. til now my main point remained unsanswered though. Why would someone, seeking drm free games only and sympathizing with linux buy on gog.com instead of humblebundle??

i cannot see ANY point. humblebundle offers all games that support it drm free, has good bundles, actively pushes developers for linux support (the games icluded in the first bundles got ported for linux just because of it, which imho just started the porting hype of indie titles and gave us very excellent games), and also supports charity.
dont forget that you get steam keys also, for playing with friend atleast or other reasons, increasing linux games sold counter :). i assume steam gets its share too, using it to push linux even more.

I prefer buying from humble bundle when they have both drm-free and steam key!

Anyway is good to have all these alternatives, maybe one day we will have 1 key that works everywhere :)

Quoting: borartron gog you have to install all dependencies yourself, which may not be a big deal for most of us here, since we are used to it, but kills linux for the other 99% for sure, and i can understand them.

Personally, I like a 32-bit dinosaur to be as far from managing my package manager as possible. Besides, nobody manages my system but me. Therefore I don’t use Steam.