So You Want to Compete with Steam
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So You Want to Compete with Steam
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Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#2As someone who does video games in his spare time, this was a very enjoyable read.
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#3Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already accomplish because $NewNotSteam's parent company has an executive somewhere that is tired of giving Valve money and had sufficient pull to change it.
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#4Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already acc…
Really though... other than perhaps Blizzard... is there any secondary store worth looking into?
Outside of Windows/Android/iStore... There's nothing worth switching.
I've passed up on purchasing games (IE: Mass Effect 3) because it's tied to a shitty NotSteam...
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#5Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already acc…
Origin is the worse. While downloading games, it would often roll back the progress stretching the process into hours. A complete piece of shit that.
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#6Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already acc…
Origin is the worse. While downloading games, it would often roll back the progress stretching the process into hours. A complete piece of shit that.
I endure it for Titanfall. If it wasn't required, I'd drop it so incredibly fast...
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#7Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already acc…
Really though... other than perhaps Blizzard... is there any secondary store worth looking into? Outside of Windows/Android/iStore... There's nothing worth switching. I've passed up on purchasing games (IE: Mass Effect 3) because it's tied to a shitty NotSteam...
Again GOG's is ok. It's not great, but it's also not an obstruction like Origin is.
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#8Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already acc…
Really though... other than perhaps Blizzard... is there any secondary store worth looking into? Outside of Windows/Android/iStore... There's nothing worth switching. I've passed up on purchasing games (IE: Mass Effect 3) because it's tied to a shitty NotSteam...
It's not avoiding Steam, because plenty of games there are given as Steam keys, but I have a $12/mo Humble Monthly subscription. It's literally more games than I could ever play, but there are some really good gems every month. They also have the "Trove", which is a bunch of DRM-free downloads that cycle in and out over time.
I also use GOG when the GOG-tuned Dosbox version of a game is better than the Steam one. I don't use their downloader app.
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#9There are plenty of businesses where you can just roll up, make a better yet not more innovative version of the leading app, and just take all of the customers.
Game distribution is NOT one of them, at all, by any stretch of the imagination, at this point in time.
I've saved this article to share every time I hear that pitch.
Re: So You Want to Compete with Steam
#10Mind you the USERS don't even want a lot of Steam's competition. The GOG downloader is...okay? Origin is almost universally hated and every time one of these big companies announces $NewNotSteam the collective community rolls their eyes and groans, dreading the new application that has to be installed, and kept running so it can update, to accomplish the exact same thing that Steam, GOG, Origin, and uPlay already acc…
Really though... other than perhaps Blizzard... is there any secondary store worth looking into? Outside of Windows/Android/iStore... There's nothing worth switching. I've passed up on purchasing games (IE: Mass Effect 3) because it's tied to a shitty NotSteam...
Just Gog. I find it interesting that it's basically killed a lot of the old abandonware rings that were out there. I played a lot of stuff I discovered on abandonia or homeoftheunderdogs back when I had an old computer that couldn't handle what was on the shelves in stores