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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • To some extent, I have the same issue with choosing Gog over Steam. I really want to support Gog, because it’s DRM free and European. However, it can happen that the games released on it are lacking patches, achievement or DLCs. For instance look at the commentary of Thief simulator: https://www.gog.com/en/game/thief_simulator

    Devs support Steam because it’s the top platform, and do the bare minimum for the rest. And I don’t really see a solution for that.

    Other examples: Hitman World of assassination on Epic has less achievements than the Steam version. Hardspace Shipbreaker achievements are broken on Epic and functional on Steam.









  • I like achievements. Outside the feeling of completion, they allow me:

    • to try some challenges I would never have the idea to try (e.g. the great Trine 2 achievements)
    • to decide when I am done with a game and can start up another.
    • to feel a bit proud when you achieve something only 5% or other players did.

  • IIRC, there was a Half-Life mod called “Firearms”, where you had a key to refill a half used magazine. If you just reload instead, you lose the ammo. The only game I know to make the distinction.

    Of course, refilling was slower as reloading. Therefore, in practice, you just used the reload.