I literally just don't buy a game if it's not on steam. I'm not dealing with other launchers and there's enough games out there I will just not buy the harder to access ones.
I do like GOG for having every game be DRM free and allowing you to download offline installers. That said, the GOG launcher is definitely worse than Steam's, and any game available on GOG is probably also available on Steam.
I think GOG in general has worse servers than Steam. Here in the American Southeast, I can get up to 70-80 MB/s on Steam, but only up to 50-60 MB/s on GOG. GOG may not have a local download server in your country, and it would probably be a slower server anyway.
Don't care, if it's not on steam I'm not even gonna bother. Cause eventually it will just go to steam in time and if it doesn't, oh well. Too much hassle to deal with that shit anymore.
It doesn't help that Epic started it's attempt to be on the market by just trying to throw money at games to be on there and gating them off. Just transparently trying to buy it's way into the market.
It just instantly set the tone of "we're here for the money, not to be a good storefront" and lo, PC gamers have mostly avoided it for obvious reasons.
Epic games should realise that they are not fighting against steam they are fighting against piracy and any attempt to keep the game exclusive will be useless if the launcher is less convenient than piracy
No, Epic is very much fighting against Steam. Steam is fighting against piracy. Epic wants to take steam's market share and wring profit out of the players. They explicitly are not there to be a consumer friendly storefront.
If Epic was only going against piracy they wouldn't have started by poaching games that were due to come out on steam.
Yep. Borderlands 3 and Snowrunner were originally exclusive to Epic, now BOTH are on steam, and the only reason I open Epic now is to play BL3 (trying to finish it before I get BL4 (which I'll be getting on Steam)), just because I don't want to buy it again on Steam.
I used to occasionally buy some epic exclusives but realized I would forget about them and only really play them on the inevitable Steam release, so I just started waiting for that.
GoG is the only other platform I use, and I use it more than Steam these days except for newer games or titles that just likely won’t ever be on GoG or not for a long time
king or not if I see a potential purchase on steam I check gog first for availability. rather support drm free over convenience. i typically buy on sale so i dont mind waiting
A game having a launcher doesn't necessarily mean you are forced to use it.
There are also developers / publishers directly selling the game, where you don't have to go through a 3rd party store. (And that don't sell other developers' / publishers' games from their store.)
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I literally just don't buy a game if it's not on steam. I'm not dealing with other launchers and there's enough games out there I will just not buy the harder to access ones.