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> Epic, Windows store, GoG

VALVe has such strong network effects playing in their favour, nobody is gonna buy on those stores if it's also on Steam, except GoG maybe, as it lets you download the games DRM free IIRC

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I would buy on GoG, but after the steam deck, I buy again only on steam. They know their stuff at Valve.

If it's any consolation, Valve also makes it pretty easy to play GoG games on Deck. You can run GoG installers in Proton and set them up with their own virtualized C:/ drive like other Steam games. They do a good job ensuring that even if a competing store came out, users would have proper access to it. That's commitment to customer satisfaction worth supporting, but don't be afraid to support devs outside Steam either!

Kinda? You then have to figure out the correct graphic settings. I have BG3 on GoG (backed on kickstarter way back) and unfortunately it runs terribly on the Deck, to the point I'm not playing it right now

tbh, Baldurs Gate 3 runs pretty terribly on my Ryzen desktop also.

The issue is that GoG does not support Linux.

This is a GoG problem which could be solved, but they are uninterested in my money.

Absolutely this, steam still wins on ux by a mile. Windows store still has shitty drive management (try moving a game to a different drive... Good luck!) and download management. Epic is full of scam crypto games and in general just has a cruddier UI. GoG is awesome though.

Epic gets around this by offering free games all the time, though. Not sure how they can do that for games on steam as well, first I've heard about locked in pricing.

I don't use those features, so I'll take the lowest bidder. GoG galaxy groups them all together for me anyway (and I only play single player games really, outside of like, the rare fighting game. So I don't need to worry about servers).

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