As mentioned above, GOG only sells Witcher II because the same parent company owns both. 

GOG is great, but it's no Steam.  It doesn't keep a nice list of all my games for easy access and keep them all updated automatically (not that these old games have any updates coming).  If I can get a game on GOG or Steam, I pick Steam every time for convenience.

I am a big fan of steam for many reasons.

I'll try and list them in an easy to read format.

1) Getting games from steam and paying for them is so easy it is addictive. Everything you need to make a decision is on steam. Try checking metacritics from a retail store. In fact trying buying any PC game from a retail store these days. Even 10 years ago you had to ask in GAME to for expansions because they just didnt put them on the shelf at all.

2) Updates, this is really good until its forced on the user like skyrim updates is. By passing "do not update option" turns the benefit in to a pain in the .... well you get it. But when everything works, this takes the old surf time looking for patches out of the equation.

3) Steam Workshop. Great idea, as a former nexus modder for TES games I saw some very low down, dodgy people running mod hosting sites and making a profit from it. Often abusing the modders rights in the process. Happened a lot. Steam dont do that, they just host the mosts and clean up any mess if you report it to them. Its hassle free. Except for the issue with their servers under performing because Steam workshop is growing to fast.

4) I love the idea of owning game grants you access to mods. It seems like a sweet deal to me that a dev that supports modders is rewarded by the sales mods generate in 100% of cases. No pirates with a free ride. In return I expect that dev to keep making good games like Sins, like Galactic Civ and like FE. After all no game keeps us playing for ever. Its in my interest too to ensure the devs have the cash to make the next game I will buy. Id be bored to death in no time if that was not the case.

5) My friends all use steam now, we chat in game, we talk about games we like. We see what our friends are playing and games that get played a lot advertise them selves to us. We notice when a friend is always on one game and we thing, must be good and take a look for our selves. Its the new word of mouth, because talk is cheap, its also more reliable than a simple verbal recommendation.

6) The new gamehub idea on steam is pretty cool too, even if you do not own the game you can see what players of that game are doing. Its like the ultimate fan zone.

Does this bother me as a website owner my self, do I feel threatened by this ?

No because those sort of things are gathering points, not specialist sites, they focus a community and specialist sites like my need a focus just as a focus needs sites like mine.

So i see Steam as a win win situation.

Except for the downtime of Steam Workshop, I like Steam Workshop, it takes the politics out of modding but the downtimes suck.

Just wanted to point out that Beta patches can be made available on Steam.  Skyrim does this, you can opt in for beta patches.  So developers can do that on Steam as well.

Thanks for pointing that out.  I assumed all developers offered no beta access via steam since paradox had been that way.  Per paradox, "only official patches get released on steam."  Maybe they changed their patching policies?

Since you received no payment from me buying Galactic Civilizations 1 from Strategy First, I went ahead and bought it again from GoG.  

While you are correct about the ability of recieving Process Fee assistance in Germany, winning the process does not help you much when the company you sued goes bankrupt.

Giana Sisters, which is fairly new, also made GOG.  AOW3 will as well.

You won't see many new games on GOG, but if you could just combine GOG and Desura, you'd get what I wanted Impulse to be, and what it showed signs of being before the Gamestop sale.  It's not the fault of the Impulse team that Gamestop mismanaged Impulse.

The only problem with that is many of them just link right back to Steam as the 3rd party client you have to have to play the game even if you buy it from Gamersgate, GOG or even the developer themselves.

Gaunathor is correct.

Many games link back to steam even if bought on steam's competitors or a disk in the store.

But GOG does not allow that (and as a result they do not have certain games which have such a deal with steam).

I have no problem with games being offered on Steam, as long as Steam is NOT REQUIRED! Don't force it on those of us who don't like it!

I hate Steam and will not use it. I used to love Stardock because they offered an alternative and didn't sell out to Steam for the big bucks. Those days are over. I've been getting all my games either from GOG or other non-Steam vendors. There's no game that will entice me to use Steam, and there have been many games over the years that I would have bought instantly if they didn't require Steam. Just another lost sale.

Exactly. Sure, you do 90 % of the sales on steam, it would be insane not to OFFER there.

But please dont kill the other ways of distribution.

Free: Last I read, valve takes up 30% of each sale. So its hardly "free" if you pay them for it.

Steampipe: Copying files into a remote directory isn't easier than right clicking the folder containing those DRM-free files, selecting "add to 7z", and uploading it to your host. This isn't steam being easy its some of steam's competitors being unreasonably difficult (due to it being difficult to code a client that is easy of course; but for 30% of the take they better make the investment). And if it is the DRM that is complicating matters than it IS about DRM

Hosting: Even blizzard subsidizes their networking costs by leveraging bittorrent distribution.

Features: I do agree that they have useful tools through. like the debugging data, built in chat, built in matchmaking...

Because gamestop is a blight and most sane gamers boycott them. Gamestop buying impulse was like EA buying a <insert dozens of good companies here>. And its not like I didn't give them another chance (not that they deserved one).

So Valve gets 0 from direct sales?   Is that true for just you guys, or across the board?

I always assumed it was different, and it was a big reason why I chose non-Steam whenever possible in the past (I don't dislike Valve, but I didn't want them getting money for indy games instead of the developer)