GOG even match some of my games to Steam, so I get Steam and GOG versions of them. I quite liked the Desura launcher but it went bankrupt, because nobody wanted to buy their games on other services. The GOG launcher is a mess of huge screens and images when I just want a list. it's their games and their launcher, in effect (that's all Steam is) and it's a damn sight less intrusive than ANYTHING else. Valve are never going to do what you ask. Oh, and it backs up my saves/config for me, but that's optional too. I click it, I find my game in a pure list of games, I play my game, it goes away. I have small-mode Steam in my taskbar with notifications off. I don't care about "friends", or streaming, or their controllers.
I'm only sorry that Steam doesn't do more normal software, I would happily pay for portable, follow-me versions of quite a lot of things I use, but they either have their own crappy ideas of how to do it, or they don't have a similar service at all. And I can buy, gift and redeem games through a simple website and get them instantly. I can double-click install and play games I haven't played in 16 years. I can literally install it at a friends house, sign in as me, play my copy of the game together, and then remove it. I can install it on any number of PC's I like. 16 years later my games still work like they did before Steam came along. It's one of the biggest video game incomes to a single company in the world.Īnd. They're not suffering, they have made enough money from Steam to last, pretty much, forever. You not buying a game, just means you don't have those games. if you don't support the least-objectionable version of what everyone else has, they have absolutely no incentive to compete with them anyway. We're talking 20+ year old games, still available on a double-click download, still eligible to redeem your CD-Key for free extra versions online that are updated regularly.Īnd that's precisely it. They've given them away any number of times. It was one of the first things they ever did on Steam. Your disks, first example, make you eligible to get all the HL1 series games for free on your Steam account anyway. Because Steam was the first, most sensible, and has been the most reliable service.
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