Posted September 29, 2021
darthspudius: You're conveniently missing the part where all this takes a minute or less. Not exactly a big deal. But you also conveniently missed the fact that you have to access a web browser, sign into the website (and hope it is working) to download your GOG game. It's not better really. At least Steam keeps your game updated. We don't get a lot of that here on GOG.
Truth007: He was talking about when a game is installed already. Since steam is drm you need the client which can cause updates which can get annoying when you have limited time to play. 1. Not everyone has super fast internet that updates take a 'minute or less'. Sometimes the updates to the clients take 5 minutes or more for me, sometimes much longer.
2. I can't remember the game being talked about, but thinking it might have been skyrim or fallout, but updating the games, especially when it isn't needed (ie, a graphic got updated somewhere, or they optimized something that didn't really need it) can break mods, which a LOT of people like. Which means you can't continue your save game until the mods are updated, which can break things, and sometimes it can take a while for mods to be updated to work nicely with newest updates.
3. Sometimes people might not have access to internet, but still want to play games, and with Steam that is extremely hard to do, if not impossible at times.