Epic, GOG vs. Steam: the console war reimagined on the PC. Which is the best gaming store!

[flaccidsnake]

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[JAHGamer]

I totally agree there. I wish EGS was competing by offering a better service than Steam does, but they certainly do not do that, and they don't come remotely close. Valve is a private company and isn't beholden to the whims of a Tencent or a board of shareholders. They can do what they want, how they want to do it, and don't need to report constant year-on-year growth to survive. They have no reason to make Steam a worse thing to squeeze more money out of people. Epic, however, is already playing the late stage capitalism game. All those layoffs while having huge profits, not improving their store, just locking up exclusive games that lots of PC consumers don't want to buy purely because of the store they're on. I forget about all the games I own on Epic all the time and have re-bought most of them when they have come to Steam. Now I just wait for them to come to Steam, especially after all the bullshit IOI was talking about how Hitman 3 would never come to Steam. I was stupid enough to believe them. That one, I will only buy on Steam when it hits $10.

You must be out of the loop, EGS has improved significantly in the last year. They’ve addressed almost all the issues people had with the store, and now the only thing Steam has over it is the community features.

you haven't made a single informed point in the thread. try to play an EGS game with a Dualsense.

I’m the only one on this thread making informed posts? And I played Alan Wake 2 on EGS with a DualSense and it works fine, so not sure why you’re choosing to lie

EGS defenders just don't get that it is worse than nothing for game buyers because its primary "consumer-facing" actions are timed exclusives from third parties, not building its own stuff. Their big pitch is a higher cut to publishers/developers but that just doesn't directly translate for consumers. And what few benefits EGS does give (free games, purchased timed exclusives) will clearly go away if the store ever becomes successful while the bad parts (shit interface, lack of community features, losing easy access to your 20 year old back catalog) will seemingly always be bad.

The hope is, and it seems to be coming true, that people just never switch and Sweeney pulls the plug eventually after realizing that not even free (for now, and probably not the game you want) is cheap enough to get people on his alternate storefront.

More fake news, EGS is improving rapidly and significantly, it feels better and smoother than Steam, which still feels like a crappy web app! You probably haven’t used it in a while

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[Box]

What's the point of buying a Game on Steam or Epic Store when GOG has it DRM free and you don't even need a launcher?

Gog also has exclusive games like Silent Hill 4 and a lot of games run better on Gog than they do on Steam.

What is the actual benefit of choosing Steam over GOG? I don't care about steve achievements or the steam forums! I just want to play games

 

[arvfab]

What's the point of buying a Game on Steam or Epic Store when GOG has it DRM free and you don't even need a launcher?

Gog also has exclusive games like Silent Hill 4 and a lot of games run better on Gog than they do on Steam.

What is the actual benefit of choosing Steam over GOG? I don't care about steve achievements or the steam forums! I just want to play games

I love it when I get GoG redeem codes from Twitch Prime instead of their own launcher or Epic.

Still haven't played a single one of them, though.

 

[Box]

I love it when I get GoG redeem codes from Twitch Prime instead of their own launcher or Epic.

Still haven't played s single one of them, though.

I had no idea this was even a thing, are these like free to keep forever like the same kind of deal Epic had?

Im new to PC gaming

 

[arvfab]

I had no idea this was even a thing, are these like free to keep forever like the same kind of deal Epic had?

Im new to PC gaming

If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, you can link it to your Twitch account. There you can claim multiple games during a month. Some of them are yours to keep, because they give you redeem codes or let you link other accounts to it and unlock games and content on there. Others are played directly from their own launcher, but I don't know if they are forever accessible, even without subscription.

They also give you monthly access to rotating Luna games you can stream.

 

[Polyh3dron]

GoG is cool.

I'd rather have games on Steam because Steam Deck, sharing, remote play, etc...

but GoG is cool.

 

[Fenton]

Steam has more games... also sales and discounts are more frequent. From the latest AAA games to obscure indies. Big games, small games...Steam has everything.

The filthy neckbeard community is so large on Steam, always active and posting stuff.... funny guys, trolls, modders, clowns, shitposters, curators, review bombing. There is so much happening daily. Most of the PC gamers select only one storefont for all their needs..and it will be Steam.

 

[Syndr0mePK]

Bing and DuckDuckGo are so much better than Google. But people dont use them. Same with GOG... people like it but dont use it.

 

[Old Gamer]

GoG is cool.

I'd rather have games on Steam because Steam Deck, sharing, remote play, etc...

but GoG is cool.

You can play GoG games on a Steam Deck, though.

 

[Old Gamer]

Bing and DuckDuckGo are so much better than Google. But people dont use them. Same with GOG... people like it but dont use it.

Bing is better than......

 

[Systemshock2023]

I just have all storefronts and emulators pinned in my taskbar. No big deal. Also gog galaxy is cool.

 

[Nhomnhom]

New games need Denuvo. The PC AAA market would crash without it.

 

[Gamernyc78]

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[JAHGamer]

Maybe if Epic becomes a threat in the future, we'll finally get Half Life 3, or maybe they'll bring back the great Steam flash sales they used to have.

I told you @Nhomnhom @flaccidsnake Now that Epic Games is slowly taking over, Steam is finally bringing back the flash sales they used to do This is why competition is good, stop supporting a monopoly!

 

[2spooky5me]

I prefer GOG... but I'm bias towards STEAM, because I've had my account since the days of Counterstrike 1.6, and my entire library is there.
Even with the free games GOG and EPIC give me, I just can't move on from STEAM.

Also, I was told STEAM gets priority on patches/updates, so folks who play the most recent games will probably factor that into their favortism.

 

[klomzi]

I told you @Nhomnhom @flaccidsnake Now that Epic Games is slowly taking over, Steam is finally bringing back the flash sales they used to do This is why competition is good, stop supporting a monopoly!

Epic's 2023 year in review report stated that 3rd party revenue was down and EGS is missing out on a lot of big titles such as Helldivers 2, Palworld, Lethal Company, Elden Ring etc.

 

[Kokoloko]

Ill support GOG and Unreal over Steam.
Gabe can SuckAD, his fans too