Timboli: Yes and No really.

Often it is about drive space, especially on your PC, and especially if it is a smaller SSD.

I imagine it is still much quicker to reinstate a Steam game by copying from a drive, than have Steam install it all over again. And it doesn't have to be a DRM-Free Steam game to gain that advantage.

At times I have read here, where some say that Steam installs faster than Galaxy does.
That may be true, but it still takes a while, and an Offline install would or should be fastest of all.

You also need to take into account, that Steam updates itself when it first starts up, and I can often download a GOG game in the time it takes for the Steam client to do all its checking and updating.

Orkhepaj: fails to the cancel cult ? did i write that nope , ive written fall , fail and fall not the same thing

and what cult would that be?

Dogmaus: the one that has brainwashed you to say things like "the cancel cult" and believe they exist.

Orkhepaj: oh my , looks like you are projecting :P
the cancel cult is real , being against them wont make me a cultist

Dogmaus:

Orkhepaj: you still didnt manage to comprehend my comment :P
you like to cancel things, right?

Orkhepaj: dunno , internet dl is now faster than copy from old hdd to another hdd

Timboli: You reckon. You must have a pretty slow HDD and connector in that case. Maybe you also fail to take AV into consideration.

And like so many, you think only of yourself in these discussions. Many of course, still don't have a lightning fast web connection.

Anyway, I still call bullshit.

Take off the blinkers.

_Auster_: Sorry for the necro, but it should be on topic:

A new one is live since yesterday (?), and it should have about 2 weeks left:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/drm-freedom-2021/

_Auster_: Sorry for the necro, but it should be on topic:

A new one is live since yesterday (?), and it should have about 2 weeks left:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/drm-freedom-2021/

nightcraw1er.488: Just a note though, be careful when buying from humble, their “drm free” definition is looser even than gogs and they are not always updated or up to date. For instance, one piqued my interest on the main page, BeamNg drive, looks like it is a forza horizon type game, but it’s early access on steam, so probably no installers as yet, and it says things like authenticate online to get updates and such like.

nightcraw1er.488: Just a note though, be careful when buying from humble, their “drm free” definition is looser even than gogs and they are not always updated or up to date. For instance, one piqued my interest on the main page, BeamNg drive, looks like it is a forza horizon type game, but it’s early access on steam, so probably no installers as yet, and it says things like authenticate online to get updates and such like.

Timboli: I have a fair number of Humble Store games, though only DRM-Free ones, many of which also came with a Steam Key.

I stopped buying from them a few months back though, due to poor support and lack of being able to trust them. They say the issue does not lie with them, and even recently, after a few months, offered to refund for the game in question. That last bit is good I guess, in some ways, but I would prefer to have a good copy of the game.

No idea why it is so hard to get a good copy. The download failed the MD5 check after many repeated downloadings using different browsers and downloaders. Just to be sure it wasn't just a wrong MD5 value, I also tested the zip file using 7-Zip, which reported an error. So the file is definitely corrupt. Clearly they had a good copy at some point, which matched the listed MD5 value. Why they can't find that copy or get again from the DEV/PUB I don't know.

Anyway, while I did not pay a lot for the game in question, I could have, and I could even have played the game and gotten partway through and then not been able to proceed any further due to a file corruption issue. I could not imagine waiting for months to resume play with a good copy that might not be able to resume where I left off ... talk about spoil the game experience. I wouldn't want to risk that with a truly good game, so how can I trust Humble to get their act together quickly ... I simply can't. So with that in mind, I feel I cannot any longer buy from them.

P.S. Many of those games I have bought from Humble, do get an update now and then, so it isn't true there are no updates, though there is no detail about the updates.