GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics

When I first learned of GOG and I was still primarily gaming on Windows I tended to choose GOG over Steam since I prefer their DRM-free games. However since it became much easier to game on Linux (thanks to Proton and the work of Valve), I tended to start buying more on Steam since it was so much easier to get games working through their platform. Since Heroic launcher came out I have now switched back to primarily buying from GOG again.

you can only do that with gog, not with steam

ps: however, there have been a few games where multiplayer features required a gog galaxy instance, which I don't agree with given their whole no-DRM spiel

Plus you get Linux/Proton too on Steam [1]. And the Deck if you're into that.

I used to go to GoG first but convenience is winning lately :(

[1] I remember, but can't provide links, that CDProjekt/GoG got called out for their bad "port" of Witcher 2 to Linux/Mac. Guess what, instead of improving things with 3, they simply dropped any pretense of official "ports". Not good for cross platform customers...

Edit: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2017/07/the-witcher-3-didnt-co... is the new link, so the article wasn't retracted.

Generally, my gaming is very delayed as per this xckd:

https://xkcd.com/606/

So at the point i wanted to play Witcher 3 it was crypto price crisis then covid chip crisis and console availability crisis and I simply did not have a modern GPU in the house. I played W3 on a PS4 :)

Dunno about cyberpunk, I tried it on PS5 but all that inventory and menus are no good with a controller. One day I'll get the Windows version.