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Humble Store does not actively push for DRM Free, which at this point I find more important than pushing for Linux support if I am to be fully honest with you, even though I only play games on Linux.
I also find it much harder to find what it is I am looking for on Humble Store, as it is filled with Steam and/or Windows only titles and a lot of its filters are a joke - you can set it to only show DRM Free Linux titles and still get the wrong results as it will include Linux Steam games that happen to have a DRM Free release on Windows for example, which is why I have a great deal of trouble trusting it. Plus they spend so much time promoting Windows only Steam games that it does tend to grate on my nerves.
I used to use Humble exclusively, but right now I would much rather support GOG.com or itch.io instead.
sure old games are a good reason for using gog, though personally im more interested in newer ones. However its no reason of exclusively demanding a gog version of every new game.
@ Hamisch
Well, of course I accept your opinion, but as manero666 said i completely fail to understand it. a drm free title on a drm platform effectively has drm. its like choosing between being in a jail where you can move freely, or move freely in a world where you can visit certain cells as you like. the point that windows does vanish is propably as likely as that steam does vanish - very unlikely in any relevant time frime. (id take a bet that steam will survive even longer^^)
i get your point about the filter, but to me its minor issue that gog also has plenty of.
Most of my games are from Steam, while a few are from GOG. I do prefer Steam since they take of updates for me, which would be a PITA to do manually since I have something like 80 games installed or so.
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If anything I see Steam as a barrier to DRM free even if it doesn't mean to be. There are countless games with Linux versions on Steam where GOG and other DRM free outlets seem to never get the Linux version. Metro Redux, Dying Light, Metro Last Light Redux, System Shock 2, Waking Mars, etc. I don't know why they don't put the Linux version DRM free and am not saying Valve is outright responsible but something fishy is up and I doubt it's that GOG hates Linux.
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this old school key activation may explain why a lot of people prefer GOG over Steam and drm in general
the game is Age of Empire III Steam version (wasn't Steam enough??)
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Anyway is good to have all these alternatives, maybe one day we will have 1 key that works everywhere :)
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Hamish was exactly getting to the point. Like him, I was a huge supporter of humble and bought all the HIBs, plus quite bunch of store games (once they started with the store). At that time there were no linux games on GOG (so I didn't even know the store, only heard it mentioned in some posts).
It is also my believe that Humble was one of the MAJOR cornerstones for Linux Gaming, as for their bundles they required cross-platform DRM-free games from the developers, and I do think that this indeed convinced some of them to have linux on the radar.
But then the 'downfall' of Humble started. More and more of their bundles were either Windows-only or Steam-only. So they are useless for me. As Hamish described, finding DRM-free Linux games in their store has some pitfalls. I really don't feel taken seriously anymore as an DRM-free Linux Gamer. This is quite sad, given their history mentioned in the paragraph above :(
In the same turn, GOG had started supporting Linux, and did so in a quite convincing way. Their shop presentation of games is very nice, with screenshots and reviews, and the search function works flawlessly. Many of the titles available here are either not on Humble at all, or often only as Steam-Key. So except for historical reasons I rather cannot see why someone would buy at humble instead of at GOG.
I do not understand this accusation - he told you he is only playing on Linux. And yes, if you're all for DRM then both Windows and Steam are not acceptable.
Plain wrong. Victor Vran? Book of Unwritten Tales 2? Pillars of Eternity? The Bard's Tale?
All Steam-only in the Humble Store, but DRM-free on GOG. And that's just a few from my list.
As mentioned above, useless for me. I do not have a steam account (and never will). I chose Linux for freedom, without compromise and with all consequences (i.e., my last Windows had been 3.1; and yes, I have been playing on Linux all the time. Long before Humble and/or Steam).
A concept like steam, that tries to tie other peoples work, which I pay for, to a 3rd party account with login and DRM does not fit in such a world, so I'm not supporting them.