One cannot be unamazed by an illusion they've never seen.

Oh shit, Darvond has been watching The Empire Strikes Back again!

Well GOG is part of CD Projekt, just as Steam is part of Valve... and CD Projekt do make some games, you might have heard of them...

Nope, in fact I find myself going to Steam more and more often for games these games because GOG rejects them here (most recent example being Aeon of Sands, an amazing CRPG which would fit perfectly here). I'm talking about indie games that by all rights should be here. The person who is in charge of GOG's "curation" has some seriously shit taste, so many awful pretentious games here with artstyles that look like ass. I used to be "GOG or nothing" but these days I couldn't care less, I'm only interested in the games.

Also, the lack of a mod workshop on GOG is making this platform worse and worse by the day, I'm currently into Stellaris and I like to play it heavily modded, and I seriously regret not getting the Steam version, on Steam one click and I get the mod installed, on GOG I need to manually hunt down the mods and install them, not to mention that they are usually several versions outdated compared to the Steam workshop version.

I don't mind Steam and never have. I own games on GOG and Steam and am happy. However two platforms are enough for me. I'll never join a 3rd.

I wouldn't start collecting games elsewhere, unless they pull a GOG connect style thing, but I would still buy a game if it's the only place to get it, if it's one I really REALLY want. I'd drop it like a rock after playing it though.

Anti-censorship stance? I heard they shut down entire accounts, blocking users from even playing their games, for simply having an opinion that is unpopular.

He probably means just that they now allow porn games.

My thoughts exactly.
Steam was imposed to me as a form of DRM and I have never liked it.
Still, I can feel some respect for Valve in other aspects. They created some good games in the past and the nice SDL library is made by people of that company.

why is this low rated, its the truth. even more obvious if you run a non windows OS, there is a list on on this site, legitimate games that run fine on steam but "fail to meet GOG's standards", standards that no one outside of Gog knows about.

if lack of curation is the worst thing about steam, then i guess you'll all be using the discord store pretty soon, with its always online DRM that will be removed at some point in the future, like HL3 will come out in the future, or WOW4

Don't believe everything you hear? Shutting down accounts is *extremely* rare on Steam and the only case I've even seen in a long time was some guy who had harassed them through every means of communication for months already and kept ignoring Steam's warnings as well as hacking his way back to into the community after originally getting a community ban. Even people here agreed he pretty much deserved it when he showed what had happened.

I'd love to see who you are talking about because that sounds extremely unlikely. Even fraud only gets your account restricted these days, which means you still have access to your games.

Not true. This is baseless hyperbole on your part. It's one thing to dislike Steam but it's another thing entirely to make up stuff about them that isn't true. If anything Steam and it's forums aren't policed enough. You see a ton of flame wars over there on various game or general forums with little to no moderation. In fact it feels like the wild west over there at times. The only times I've seen hard bans is when people actually send harassment type petitions to Steam via their "contact steam" option.

Been disillusioned with the landfill for a while before hopping on the GOG bandwagon. Eventually I lose my internet fir a good couple months, and then I decided, if my DRM'd games don't want to work all the time, then I'm either opting for DRM-free or pirating the ever living heck out of everything - pirate copies don't care whether you're online or offline.

Ah no, I didn't know that. I've checked it out, and it would have been handy (too late). At the condition that I take the habit of making "backups" of the installed games, just as I do with gog, but with half the reasons to (it facilitates reinstallation yet without making the game an "acquired copy stored offline"). It's a thing to consider, thanks.