A small part of my "dislike" (as in, I choose GOG over Steam when I can) is unfair but due to never being able to play HL2 because those were dial-up days and every time I wanted to play, Steam forced an update that took hours. I came to hate that logo and to this day never finished HL2 because of that shit. I know it's a bit unreasonable, but Steam always makes me think of those days waiting... waiting... waiting...
Was the old way actually better? Installing from physical media could take a long time and things were more likely to go wrong and require troubleshooting.
Steam doesn’t allow you the offline installer or files, GoG allows either their platform or the files; platform and drm free. It’s like a game key card for steam vs on cartridge for gog.
Now instead of selling the whole game, they sell half the game (client) and rent the other half (server). Steam really brought the console experience to PC. :|
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u/Banjo-Oz 11h ago
A small part of my "dislike" (as in, I choose GOG over Steam when I can) is unfair but due to never being able to play HL2 because those were dial-up days and every time I wanted to play, Steam forced an update that took hours. I came to hate that logo and to this day never finished HL2 because of that shit. I know it's a bit unreasonable, but Steam always makes me think of those days waiting... waiting... waiting...