solseb: Hey, everyone! This is just a friendly reminder about our exciting quest. Once I receive 100 answers
I can't tell if this thread is a followup to a previous thread which contained the quest and questions (if so, a link / quote for context would be helpful), or if the above replies caused so much editing that your initial post now inadvertently doesn't make much sense anymore.
But I think I puzzled out that what you're asking is just for people to give opinions on all the stores and keyshops you've mentioned. Since I'm half-sick and passing time with useless browsing until nausea goes away, I guess I can actually spend some time on this. (plus, y'know, 1% chance of winning something! Except I guess for the 90% chance that you won't get to 100 responses, so maybe just 0.1% chance?) :P
So, on a scale from 1 to 10:
1. gog: genuine: 10, distribution: 9 (offline DRM-free - but new users are steered away from them), price: 8 (generally good enough; when not, generally not gog's fault), extras: 9 (don't tend to care much, generally good), charity: 5 (promoting DRM-free gaming is a good cause), passing keys: ? (sounds painful, 8 if you mean gifting), refunds: 8 (more than fair), library size: 6 (easily large enough that even as a Linux gamer, I have more interesting games than I'll ever be able to play - but could be a lot better), account creation: 8 (at a decade+, rating might be outdated), connection with gog: 10, overall view: 8, future: 7
2. humble: genuine: 9, distribution: 4 (I only have active experience with the ancient humble bundles, which were amazeballs, but I've seen how it's all moved to hot-air reseller and needing an account and so on, and with the se7en giveaway requiring account linkage, there's just way too much uncertainty - the current bundle sounds hopeful, but I'm still leery of trying it), price: 5 (based purely on the thresholds for that current bundle - I remember the time without thresholds, and giving more than the average just to drive up linux percentage), extras: 1 (can't recall any), charity: 6 (yes, there's still charity, but I can't recall the last time I saw any organisation I actively wanted to donate to; course, I stopped actively looking at them years ago), passing: ?, refunds: ?, library size: 3 (I'm aware they sell individual games, and not just bundles, but I was done browsing there before I knew it), account creation: 3 (unfairly colored by the old lack of need, and the atrocious experience I had during that se7en giveaway), connection with gog: 5 (based on current bundle), view: 4, future: 3
3. fanatical: never visited; looking at now, price: 2 (no discounts other than for 1 bundle thing), library size: 2 (50 gog games), view: 1 (cookie dialog had marketing things pre-checked, which is a violation of the GDPR, finding the gog filter took far too much effort)
4,5,6. gamesplanet: looked at once before - would count as just one store - if the different subdomains actually differ in any significant aspect, it's not obvious at first glance. feels like just a currency/language switch. Also, why not fr.gamesplanet.com?
They support iDeal, the Dutch online payment system, so I might consider browsing there if any other compelling reason to comes along. They seem to be a few cents cheaper for a few gog games, but a full euro more expensive for another. That's probably just visualing regional pricing differences? Weird selection, and I'd need to dig into their business model before actually considering buying anything there. view: 5? (potentially, just because gog filter is prominent in the main menu)
7-21. resellers: hell no.
