Steam is highly competitive with their prices. Many of their games (from whence I've seen) are actually lower for the asking price.

I love GOG and would do nearly anything to support it, so should this be an issue and addressed?

Examples please. The opposite also occurs, by the way.

Well, if it truly goes both ways, then I suppose it wouldn't be an issue.

GOG most of the time has better prices and ALWAYS has the games you want on sale for cheap so be patient and wait and good things will come ^_^

and plus if something here is a dollar or 2 more just think this, NO CLIENT!, DRM FREE! At least here what you get you own, And not get the license to play the game like steam does ;)

Very nice, thank you both. :)

I would rather pay an extra £2-5 for a game DRM-free then on a client.

Hell, I waited for XCOM to be £12 and then I still used and extra money off coupon I had been saving for just such an occasion from GamersGate.
Here I regularly pick up games I want for more then I could on Steam just because I want them.

Ditto, and a lot of times I don't even have a choice.

I seriously doubt GOG is doing it just for me but fact is there are a lot of us on very limited and very slow bandwidths that just can't manage having to work off a client. Honestly if Steam didn't enforce this I might go there from time to time. Well maybe; their forum is a bunch of over-moderated assholes which obviously wouldn't work for me either.

When you buy on GOG, you own it, when you buy on Steam you're technically renting it on the whims of the developer and the service. I think even when GOG is more expensive you're getting the far better deal here.

With GOG mostly not using $=€ and giving me store credit if regional pricing occurs GOG is in many cases cheaper than Steam for me.

And if I compare the directory structure of Steam versus GO, sorry no comparision at all:

Default steam:

\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common

GOG:

\GOG.com\

It took me a hard time to find the games installed by steam, and not everything is directly visible, so definitly +1 for GOG.

Even with the client, you can still manually install or run or do whatever....With Steam? Coming down to DRM-free.

So even a slight increase in price is worth it.

And GOG you can change the path, Steam haven't figured it out yet and I am not really bothered too ;)

You can actually change the Steam install directory to whatever. GOG - and any other retailer for that matter - can't legally sell you ownership of the game and can only sell you a license, if you really want to go down into technicalities.

If we are already talking semantics:

You are refering to ownership and Nemo dat quod non habet.

But not license in case of GOG, IMHO. as it is appraised as DRM-free, they give you ownership of the copy you purchase.

German high court has decided though, if you only purchased a digital version of it, including the advertisment saying so (like Steam and similar), you have no ownership.

With GOG advertising DRM-free open for debate AFAIK ;)

What Grargar said: some are higher and some are lower. If you're an on-sale buyer then the waters are muddied further.

For some folks it comes down to the extras, as alluded to with the mention of DRM-free. Also consider the refund policies, support policies and practices, helpfulness of the community, available add-ons, update processes, achievements, automation versus manual control, etc.

There's price and there's added value, and when choosing from which store to buy a title I suggest considering the added values and their importance to you.

This thread is like those posts on reddit when someone advices people not to buy a game at 70% discount because the game had 80% discount in the past. Yes some games are cheaper on Steam, but not by a high margin. And during sales we're talking about differences in cents.

Actually with all due respect to the OP, I think we are talking differences in sense.