Which is better, GOG or the Epic Games Store?

[MarioRui]

Which one do you think is the better store for PC games?

How could you even think of comparing GOG to that garbage?

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

i used to think itch.io but the recent news made me realise gog was the goat

itch.io is refusing to pay Vintage Story apparently, 3 months of sales not getting into the dev's pocket

 

[Vardalis]

Absolutely GOG. There's a reason I've bought a good chunk of stuff on there and never done more than claim games for free on Epic.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

I'll choose GOG Even if I don't know much about digital game stores.

 

[DjQuick2008]

I only discovered GOG about 2 weeks ago able to play theme park and theme hospital so thats me happy. If they added the windows version of risk and big red racing id also be grabbing them. Still not sure how to get controller support working with GOG all games i have installed you can play with keyboard or a mouse.

 

[Xeno]

I only discovered GOG about 2 weeks ago able to play theme park and theme hospital so thats me happy. If they added the windows version of risk and big red racing id also be grabbing them. Still not sure how to get controller support working with GOG all games i have installed you can play with keyboard or a mouse.

You could add the games to Steam as a non-Steam game. Then map the keyboard controls to your controller in Steam.

 

[midnitecarnival]

Big Red Racing

One of my all time favorites!
I also really really liked that tank game Domark brought out around the same time.
Found both in an Office Max bargain bin back in the 90's.

With Big Red, however, they're going to have to find a way to upscale the graphics because you can't see what's happening as clearly on modern day 'puters.

 

[Sfjeov]

AAAAH

 

[bombatomba77]

I don't really have anything against one or the other, but it's been about a year since I bought anything on Steam (DLC for the Atari 50 game) and almost three since Epic (Alan Wake 2), while it's been only three months since my last GoG purchase (I don't count the Prime gaming claims).

I will say that Epic has turned their game around, at least in respect to their store front. As for content it has gone down, if anything (unless you are a Fortnite player; no shade meant!).

 

[lestagio]

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Noooo! It's not true... THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE

 

[Ikagura]

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Is there any news about it? I cannot see that banner.

 

[JellyjamLu]

GOG - For allowing an option to download the entire files for the game sperately in adidition to being on the launcher itself.

Epic - Just to redeem Free games really, Tomb Raider Remastered 1-3 was so not too long ago on there.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I'm not exactly a buyer (:D) but, if I'm going to roll the dice with anyone, it'd be GOG every time — they are just consumer-friendly.

 

[PhrawzT]

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What?! That can't be.

 

[lestagio]

Is there any news about it? I cannot see that banner.

The banner says that the site will be shutting down on September 6th for "personal reasons"

For anyone that doesn't know, this isn't actual gog but rather a common gog piracy site (don't think I'm allowed to name it here though)

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

Steam

 

[HextarVigar]

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Ah, so he's having another tantrum and time running away with everyone's money. Good riddance.

 

[Aldia Aldia]

GOG's got some good shit, but they went nuts the other day and sent some rather... rule4-breaking emails to their users, if you're part of that space you'll get what I mean. I like the library I already have there, but I'm not sure if I'll keep buying from em.

 

[Ikagura]

but they went nuts the other day and sent some rather... rule4-breaking emails to their users, if you're part of that space you'll get what I mean.

Damn... I don't remember having that but a selling platform shouldn't be influencing in any way imo.

 

[Naltic]

Mate, anything is better than the Epic Games Store. Epic Games, in general, is just dogshit.

 

[cornpops]

GOG's got some good shit, but they went nuts the other day and sent some rather... rule4-breaking emails to their users, if you're part of that space you'll get what I mean. I like the library I already have there, but I'm not sure if I'll keep buying from em.

For the record, GOG didn't send swastikas and Mein Kampf ebook links to everyone, they sent a marketing email with unicode in the subject line.

This article offers a decent enough explanation: https://www.heise.de/en/news/GOG-apologizes-for-newsletter-with-SS-runes-in-subject-11321683.html

I'm going to shamelessly copy from that article.

They were marketing this game. Take note of the glyphs used in the title:

If you received the email, it might look like this:

As heise explains it, the issue is with those last two s-like glyphs. As it turns out, it appears that GOG intended to use the unicode symbol for the greek letter Koppa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa

We know that's what they intended because you can copy the runes and paste them into word, and word will show you the squiggly version (the following is from Libreoffice Writer, same result):

Which is to say, the Liberation Serif font doesn't click any heels when you go full U+03DF.

I might as well inline this section from Wikipedia, as an image to preserve font representation:

Big whoops, someone forgot to test thoroughly. Not the rise of the fourth reich (please calm down).

 

[Ikagura]

For the record, GOG didn't send swastikas and Mein Kampf ebook links to everyone, they sent a marketing email with unicode in the subject line.

This article offers a decent enough explanation: https://www.heise.de/en/news/GOG-apologizes-for-newsletter-with-SS-runes-in-subject-11321683.html

I'm going to shamelessly copy from that article.

They were marketing this game. Take note of the glyphs used in the title:
View attachment 196748

If you received the email, it might look like this:
View attachment 196750

As heise explains it, the issue is with those last two s-like glyphs. As it turns out, it appears that GOG intended to use the unicode symbol for the greek letter Koppa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa

We know that's what they intended because you can copy the runes and paste them into word, and word will show you the squiggly version (the following is from Libreoffice Writer, same result):
View attachment 196754

Which is to say, the Liberation Serif font doesn't click any heels when you go full U+03DF.

I might as well inline this section from Wikipedia, as an image to preserve font representation:

Big whoops, someone forgot to test thoroughly. Not the rise of the fourth reich (please calm down).

I can give them the benefit of the doubt because of the game that has been marketed yet I still think that the person in charge of sending the e-mail should have checked twice about those glyphs and the intrinsic implications behind them.


I don't want to say that they cannot talk about Celtic nor Nordic culture yet in 2026 those are in fact appropriated by very problematic groups and cannot be used casually as they were before.

The Indian symbol of peace and prosperity cannot be used in the west for the same reason and I think the communication staff should've been warned and aware of what they were doing before committing to anything.

Yes, it sucks that some people's culture are being associated with problematic thinking but it's how it is. That's why education and lessons are necessary to get the knowledge of what can be said or not today and why sensitivity training are a thing.

 

[Aldia Aldia]

For the record, GOG didn't send swastikas and Mein Kampf ebook links to everyone, they sent a marketing email with unicode in the subject line.

This article offers a decent enough explanation: https://www.heise.de/en/news/GOG-apologizes-for-newsletter-with-SS-runes-in-subject-11321683.html

I'm going to shamelessly copy from that article.

They were marketing this game. Take note of the glyphs used in the title:
View attachment 196748

If you received the email, it might look like this:
View attachment 196750

As heise explains it, the issue is with those last two s-like glyphs. As it turns out, it appears that GOG intended to use the unicode symbol for the greek letter Koppa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa

We know that's what they intended because you can copy the runes and paste them into word, and word will show you the squiggly version (the following is from Libreoffice Writer, same result):
View attachment 196754

Which is to say, the Liberation Serif font doesn't click any heels when you go full U+03DF.

I might as well inline this section from Wikipedia, as an image to preserve font representation:


Big whoops, someone forgot to test thoroughly. Not the rise of the fourth reich (please calm down).

Yeah, and they proceeded not to send it to Germany specifically because they noticed what the symbols would look like before sending out the emails.

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This is already pushing Rule 4, I suggest we move on.