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Sorry to bring up yet another "Steam vs. GOG" subject, but I thought this was interesting.

From the thread mentioning that the Leisure Suit Larry games are now on Steam:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7l1g6h/leisure_suit_larry_games_released_on_steam/driqlqj/
yeah... remember some conversations years ago from people who only buy on gOg, even though the games exists DRM free elsewhere, as they liked to have all games in one place. ShinyLoot, for example, partly blamed their collapse on this mentality.
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I just miss the days when "all my games in one place" meant my actuall freaking shelf.
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amok: ...as they liked to have all games in one place. ShinyLoot, for example, partly blamed their collapse on this mentality.
I would tell them that the real problem is that they didn't make ShinyLoot compelling enough to be that one store.
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Breja: I just miss the days when "all my games in one place" meant my actuall freaking shelf.
Yeah, I'll second this.

Anyway, I get the mentality. It makes sense to want everything in one place, because it feels like more of a collection. The impossibility of actually doing this has been clear for a long time, though. Even if you want to be all Steam, all the time, good luck buying LoL or Minecraft on there.


For me, it's become "buy on GOG whenever possible." If it's not there, get it DRM-free on Humble. If it's not there, get it on Steam. And then there's some oddball titles that are on Playism, Mangagamer, proprietary services, etc.
I read a couple dozen comments there, and I didn't really see any interesting or especially new discussion or points there. There didn't really seem to be any arguments either.

Yeah, some guy said he doesn't necessarily feel rebuying LSL games on Steam makes much sense because he has them on GOG already. Ok, fair enough, I feel the same way.

Another said that many people prefer to have their games on Steam because it is the biggest and most accessible PC gaming store at the moment. Ok, a good point, that is probably true as well.

Then there was the guy who mentioned that the sky is blue. I was actually quite astonished by that comment, how can he claim that? Is he some kind of blue-fanatic, hating all the other colors?


I find all this "Steam vs GOG vs EA Origin" discussion kinda pointless anyway because in 10 years all PC gamers will be forced to use Windows Store as their place to buy all their Windows games. So better get used to that idea already now, GOG and Steam will vanish at that point.
I have all my games on the same hard drive. Also, all the launch icons in the same folder.

I thought the existence of clients was supposed to simplify things ?
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Breja: I just miss the days when "all my games in one place" meant my actuall freaking shelf.
Buy DRM-free games.
Store them on optical media or memory sticks.
Print game covers from unofficial game covers thread.

Admittedly a bit more work than just buying a box with CD-ROM inside back in the day, but you can still have all your games on physical media on your physical shelf, if you choose to do so, and choose DRM-free stores.
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Breja: I just miss the days when "all my games in one place" meant my actuall freaking shelf.
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PixelBoy: Buy DRM-free games.
Store them on optical media or memory sticks.
Print game covers from unofficial game covers thread.

Admittedly a bit more work than just buying a box with CD-ROM inside back in the day, but you can still have all your games on physical media on your physical shelf, if you choose to do so, and choose DRM-free stores.
I wouldn't find that fulfilling at all. It would feel like playing pretend. Those wouldn't be the real thing. They would not feel like a real collection, there would be no nostalgic value about them down the line. I could just as well make a wallpaper with a photo of shelves with games on it :P
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PixelBoy: Buy DRM-free games.
Store them on optical media or memory sticks.
Print game covers from unofficial game covers thread.

Admittedly a bit more work than just buying a box with CD-ROM inside back in the day, but you can still have all your games on physical media on your physical shelf, if you choose to do so, and choose DRM-free stores.
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Breja: I wouldn't find that fulfilling at all. It would feel like playing pretend. Those wouldn't be the real thing. They would not feel like a real collection, there would be no nostalgic value about them down the line. I could just as well make a wallpaper with a photo of shelves with games on it :P
Totally with you on this one, sometimes I feel the same about books. There's just something about holding a paperbook in your hands, especially when you've had that book a long time. This might seem weird but there's also something satisfying about how books smell. Cold digital copies are more convenient, no doubt about it but there is something missing in digital copies.

Back to physical copies of games, remember when games had manuals? Sometimes they also came with other nifty stuff which gave a game a bit more "personality". Sometimes it was the boxart, Terminator SkyNET stands out for this one. The older Heroes of Might and Magic games (I - IV) also had inserts on unit stats. The Command and Conquer games had a separate tech tree insert. I think Take No Prisoners also shipped with a comic book. Morrowind had a huge map, Alpha Centauri also had a full tech tree poster too. The list goes on an I'm sure I can't be the only one that misses stuff like this.
Post edited December 21, 2017 by IwubCheeze
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Telika: I have all my games on the same hard drive. Also, all the launch icons in the same folder.
I don't, I have so many DRM-free digital games that I've had to put them to several HDDs, e.g. my GOG game installers and extras are divided into two 2TB USB hard drives.

Oh and e.g. my GamersGate, DotEmu, StrategyFirst etc. DRM-free installers are on two separate hard drives which are 1:1 identical (backup of a backup). This is because I can't or won't be able to redownload those games anymore (DotEmu is closes, apparently GamersGate has removed some of the installer versions and replaced them with Steam keys, Strategy First web site didn't offer unlimited download options anyway but expect you to keep your downloaded games, etc.).
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timppu: I find all this "Steam vs GOG vs EA Origin" discussion kinda pointless anyway because in 10 years all PC gamers will be forced to use Windows Store as their place to buy all their Windows games. So better get used to that idea already now, GOG and Steam will vanish at that point.
Well, to be fair for example Telltale games are 5 euros on Windows store without any discounts, so it starts being worth considering :/. To bad I hate Windows Store.
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PixelBoy: Buy DRM-free games.
Store them on optical media or memory sticks.
Print game covers from unofficial game covers thread.

Admittedly a bit more work than just buying a box with CD-ROM inside back in the day, but you can still have all your games on physical media on your physical shelf, if you choose to do so, and choose DRM-free stores.
Memory sticks are actually the worst thing to store data on the long term. Buy a NAS and store it there.
Post edited December 21, 2017 by blotunga
Would you guys want some kind of way to display the games as a collection?
I realize GoG has the 'bookshelf' thing, but it just looks like a grid, not a collection.

Maybe being able to manual drag and drop games in whatever order you want might help.
I guess creating a digital 'room' for your games may be a slippery slope into avatars and customizing your 'room'.

Tags work well, but aren't very visually appealing, having different rows for different tags on a 'shelf' and having games pop up might be cool, like literally books on a shelf you pull out a bit to check out the cover.

Reading back on my comment, I realise it's not really on topic, but the one advantage, you could say, that GoG has over Steam is the limited number of games/not having every single game including crappy games that are sometimes bundled in.
Post edited December 21, 2017 by pkk234
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PixelBoy: Buy DRM-free games.
Store them on optical media or memory sticks.
Print game covers from unofficial game covers thread.

Admittedly a bit more work than just buying a box with CD-ROM inside back in the day, but you can still have all your games on physical media on your physical shelf, if you choose to do so, and choose DRM-free stores.
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Breja: I wouldn't find that fulfilling at all. It would feel like playing pretend. Those wouldn't be the real thing. They would not feel like a real collection, there would be no nostalgic value about them down the line. I could just as well make a wallpaper with a photo of shelves with games on it :P
The closest i got my old shelf is this...

https://darkadia.com/member/kwama57
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PixelBoy: Buy DRM-free games.
Store them on optical media or memory sticks.
Print game covers from unofficial game covers thread.

Admittedly a bit more work than just buying a box with CD-ROM inside back in the day, but you can still have all your games on physical media on your physical shelf, if you choose to do so, and choose DRM-free stores.
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blotunga: Memory sticks are actually the worst thing to store data on the long term. Buy a NAS and store it there.
Yeah, but the issue here wasn't what's the best method to store data. It was how to keep games on shelves the old-fashioned way. Putting an optical disc or a memory stick inside a DVD case and printing a matching cover for that would go towards that direction. Putting a NAS in your bookshelf goes quite far from the old days.