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Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don’t have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.

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Sometimes you don’t even have to pay for games. 😇

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Lemmy instance checks out

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Innuendo aside, Steam has some awesome F2P titles

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Hell yeah it does!

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It’s not Valve that makes the decision, check how many times Factorio was on sale.

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I respect their integrity.

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Yep. In the case of Factorio, for now at least, it’s evergreen. It’s priced cheaper than it probably could be honestly and it’ll only get better. Likely anyone not interested with the current price tag isn’t interested at all. Not going on sale means you never feel the need to wait for a sale. You just buy it when you want to.

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GOG is cheaper. Steam does have more franchise deals though.

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GOG is also DRM-free and lets you download the game installer as a backup, even if they’ve been pushing hard for their GOG Galaxy clients as of lately.

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Sadly GOG isn’t even close to as good as Steam for Linux support.

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Indeed, it’s not their main goal either. Unfortunately tools like Lutris, while doing awesome work, are utterly overwhelmed by both the influx of people as well as the amount of games. And while most GOG games work with the auto-generated installers, many do not and require custom installers that are often unmaintained and quickly become outdated.

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True. But for the most part I game on a Windows box. Most games don’t have Linux support and I don’t want to bother trying to run things through Wine. I have 2 seperate comps for Linux and Windows. I pretty much use my Windows computer for for gaming and blender because it has the better graphics card and processor.

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Gog stopped their own linux launcher and instead unofficially partnered up with heroic (heroic got their own affiliate link). Until now it works pretty well.

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Escept for red dead redemption. RDR2 is actually cheaper for some reason

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My experience is that games on Steam are still far more expensive than their pendants for PS4 or similar on ebay (new).

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I think it depends on the developer sometimes, for example when Microsoft announced they were going to delist Forza Horizon 4 (June of last year) they put it on sale multiple times at 80% until it was delisted on December 16

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