Your spot on with many bad things on Steam and you're gonna love GOG community, mods are reading and listening to you and talk with you if they have something to add and explain. You can even talk with the game developers and even publishers when old/new game go out on GOG and people from GOG who work on games and check control.Trading Cards have become a joke because the mass games that come from Steam Greenlight and if that ever (may) revoke trading cards will again have meaning because now people buy bad games just because they have a cards and not because the game is good.
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I'm totally agree with you. But for now, I'm with steam for only one reason - I don't have money. On steam, I sell cards and buy games I want (I don't craft badges). What helps even more - it's a huge discounts on steam. So, even without having real money last time, I still can have good games. And even with real money - there are bundles, where you can get nice games (sometimes) dirt cheap. If over time I would change my job and my wealth got better - I would buy from GOG.
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You can also sell your cards for money or trade them for bundled games. So while some people spend money others make money on them. That's a great thing.
What's wrong with swearing? It's just a form of expression, nothing wrong with it as long as you're not swearing in every single sentence. Nobody should be banned just for swearing, people should get banned only if they continuously harass someone or make threats.
Bronies, furries, weirdos and trolls are humans and as such are part of all human communities, including GoG lol. Having fetishes doesn't means one hasn't grown up, that statement is just beyond stupid.
If you don't like steam market you can just avoid it, or use it only to sell things. Having one is better than not having one in my opinion. Same with trade system. Also while there are scammers out there, as long as you're cautious you're highly unlikely to get scammed. I was never scammed in my life, not on steam or anywhere else.
You can just avoid steam groups you don't like. I really don't see a problem here...
"Pretenders, false people and elitists", yeah those people are everywhere. Welcome to life.
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"who collect friends just to...."
do keep in mind steam made it where you can't message, chat, or gift someone unless you "friend" them, I really wish they were called acquaintances.
"growth of cancerous Steam groups"
more than anything else this is because of how information is suppressed in our country and to a lesser extent around the world, so real cancer type issues have had a chance to grow because of peoples ignorance. since people don't know about this shit they tend to find out about stuff in one huge burst of info and end up hating some race,religion,country, etc. because of it. Every group has it's assholes, and if you think of people as groups none of our hands are clean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-TFz6teM3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHQOX8EVNmE
https://youtu.be/6bPDBND2jL4?t=2200
The best way of dealing with things is a forgive but don't forget stance, people in groups will try to deal with the bad people in their groups if you give them space and lay off the hate. Spreading info is essential to fixing issues, the best way to diffuse hate is to admit the mistakes of your own group(s) at the same time you criticize others.
As far as games themselves though, you should buy from GOG first and only buy from steam if you can't get it from GOG.
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Steam is cool enough, if you know gamefaqs then multiply all your reason by ten at least
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As a GOG and Steam user, I'll try to address your points:
Trading Cards
Ignore them, don't use them
Attention seekers who collect friends
GOG has this a bit. It's just a smaller community. Eg.g Attention seekers who seek +rep button clicks
Copy pasta spreaded everywhere
Stay off the Steam forum and you will never see this. No one is forcing you to use the forum.Mods who dont care about swearing in posting.
GOG has 0 moderation in the forums.
I got harassed by some idiot who trolled me with "green envelope bug".
Don't post on Steam forums, this is a person decision.
Bronies, furries, weirdos, trolls, foot fetishes are fucking everywhere.
You're fault for using te forums once again. No one is forcing you to look at those.
Steam Market full of bots, greedy people and of course trade system full of scammers.
Who is forcing you to use the market? Stay off it. GOG doesn't have one at all. No difference.
Increasingly growth of cancerous Steam groups.
Don't use them. Again keep off Steam Community, you are not forced to go there. Then to you personally, they won't exist, same as GOG where they don't exist either.
Pretenders, false people and elitists.
That's the internet. You're not going to get away from that only hanging around the GOG forum
Profiles on GOG are private. They are on Steam too if you set it to private. No one will generally see or communicate with you in any fashion, particulary if you do not look at or interact with Steam Community at all.
Frankly, your opposition to buying games on Steam is akin to saying the ONLY reason you are not going to buy games on Origin, Desura, Itch, Uplay, or wherever is because you are forced to participate on their forums and community. You aren't on any of those, and not on Steam's either.
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Buying cards can be waste of money, while selling them nets you money. Also selling them is not much of a hassle :)
About the community..
"to circle jerk about their content and gather thumbs up to feature it on the irrelevant community hubs" If it's irrelevant then why do you even check them? Why do you even spend time thinking and POSTING about it if it's irrelevant?
"Bronies, furries, weirdos, trolls, foot fetishes are fucking everywhere. I guess they didn't grow up to use this platform yet."
Welcome to the internet when everyone watches, likes and faps to whatever the heck they want. If you don't like it, don't be part of it. Steam basically has no community, but several subcommunities noone forces you to look at.
Being judgemental with attention seeking isn't much better than the pretenders, false people,elitists and weirdos you speak about.
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but that would be too complicated! hating is what all the kewl kids do nowadays!
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Oh well Im not much veteran on Steam also i got it in 2007 i think... I simply don
t understand those reasons you got angry on Steam.. I felt in much traps bots, hackers, scammers and bad communities (its the internet fault not Steam) but you should simply be off the communities and play games you think that in GOG won
t be hackers, jerks and other kind of people everywhere is even in GOG, origin, wargaming and other game services.. If is that the real reason that you went on GOG im sorry to tell you that is crazy idea but good luck.. GOG is same as begining of Steam and in mine It will be the same as Steam in couple of years What i really hate on Steam is mobile authenticator which i won
t use until i get a more trustfull mobile device... I know is off topic now but that is the only thing i hate about Steam
However it`s your call and if you think you will be much happier on GOG i wish you good luck and have fun
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No for me is not problem i have android but my phone is unrelaible and I cant afford buying new one i tried handyandy and other stuff but lets be reasonal why should i even need that? for 3 day hold let them hold.. how funny WP has no client which should have also.. Steam runs also on windows why shouldn
t run on WP? makes no sense
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There are some very fast and painless ways to fix ALL of your problems.
-profile to friends only
-profile comments to friends only
-adjust your activity feed settings
-be selective about who you add
-unsubscribe from everything you dont want notifications from
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I can't say Steam veteran or smth, but I know Steam since 2005. It worked pretty well for me until 2007, when this new Steam community beta came in with all these Trading Cards, badges and other stuff. If I had to list things, which I hate on Steam, it would be:
Some might say - welcome to the Internet. Well, I thought the difference between Internet and Steam is the ability to control, but it seems it didn't work out.
I think it's time to move on.
grabs popcorn and wait for salty posts about my life, butthurt, suicide attempts
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