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[+] sabin -23 points 2 months ago (26 children)

Fuck this platform.

Fuck mandatory DRM.

Fuck the garbage runtime that takes minutes to start every time I wanna play a goddamn single player game.

Fuck mandatory updates every time I want to play a goddamn single player game.

Fuck popup advertisements for events that reappear year by year no matter how many times I've disabled them

This platform prevents you from owning anything..

I don't know how anyone could support this garbage.

[–] dragnansia 10 points 2 months ago (15 children)

If like you say Steam is only garbage, make a list of good alternative.

Epic Game (worst)
- Launcher -> horrible and worst than Steam. Actually you can use heroic games launcher (less problems)
- Store -> really bad
- DRM
- Need update to play game
- Only Windows / Mac (i don't care about mobile for the small amount of game)
- Not version for Linux and Tim Sweeney not like Linux and say a big amount of stupidity.
- Doesn't have all the tools and feature for dev like Steam
- No Workshop alternative
Gog (need more game and feature)
- Gog galaxy (latest test in 2022) -> good launcher but no Linux version
- Games for Windows, Linux, Mac
- Not all game can be found here because it's only DRM free game
- Doesn't have all the tools and feature for dev like Steam
- No Workshop alternative

From what i can see, Steam is not perfect but it's better than Epic for sure, and have more feature and game than Gog. I don't include itch because for me it's not a gaming store.

If anyone have another store, or want to correct anything.

[–] sabin 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gog could use more games but if it's between using a platform that forces you to use a runtime and nothing at all, I'd much rather play nothing at all.

[–] dragnansia 2 points 2 months ago

I don't want Gog to change in order to have more games in its store. In fact, I have a lot of games on Steam because of the simplicity on Linux and I don't want Gog to become like Steam, I want a DRM-free alternative.

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