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Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago

I've got half a mind to buy on GOG instead, just to get some more assurances around access in the distant future when Gabe passes. Steam just provides such a better service with controller support and the reviews though.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Can’t argue with that, it would be nice for GOG to have:

  • Cloud saves
  • A controller pass through with configuration as you described

Those are really steam’s best features, and if GOG had those I’d likely stop buying steam games

[-] Lewo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

GOG does have cloud saves and actually provides a more convenient way to manage them, unlike Steam, which kept restoring my ancient RimWorld saves for hours until I could finally convince it to get rid of them.

However, the storage space is smaller than Steam. Also, there's no equivalent of Steam's Workshop on GOG.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ah that’s good to know, thanks!

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

DRM-free is the biggest positive of GOG. Steam Family Sharing recently has been just so pro-consumer as well though. I gave my mate my old steam deck after getting the OLED deck, and he's now got a library of 200+ games right out the gate.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Afaik gog galaxy does do cloud saves.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

GOG is fine but it has a tiny library by comparison, lacks pretty much all the features of Steam, and doesn't support Linux at all.

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Those are all very good points and are things the Epic launcher hasn't been able to improve on either despite having bazillions of dollars.

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