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Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I really wanted GOG to be a viable competition, but their years and years of broken promises are not going to make me leave Steam.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    ...such as...? Whenever I'm shopping for a game, I check GOG (and 3rd party sites for steam keys via ITAD) before I buy from steam. If it's available on gog and drm-free, that's where my money goes.

    The only issue I see with gog is that devs don't give a shit. One and done, one pump chump. Why give customers choice, when you can be jerking it with their money already instead?

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago

    They can't even keep their original promise of DRM free games.
    For example, they thought they could get away with selling latest Hitman with its always-online DRM, and only changed their minds after the backlash.

    Also, from the beginning they've been promising to support Linux.
    Nothing but empty promises so far, they didn't even have the decency to publicly admit it's never happening.

    Valve, meanwhile, didn't promise anything, but quietly funded the development of Wine and all kinds of related open source software.
    Thanks to their work I've been able to completely ditch Windows a few years ago.

    For this reason alone I'm glad to buy from Steam whenever I can.

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