Initially I, too, claimed those, but ultimately I never ended up playing them and often I’d just end up buying them from steam instead. It’s funny how I’m willing to pay for something I can have for free, if it’s convenient and easy. So I didn’t claim them for very long, stopped a long time ago, and still just ignore it if a game I thirst for is available for free.

But that’s also a pretty dark prospect: Because I have my entire extensive library on steam, I’m kind of stuck with them. And while they are not abusing that presently, I’m fairly confident they will someday. And I, along with most everyone playing on pc, will be shit out of luck then.

It’s hard to diversify at this point, when I’m too far gone, and knowing changing or adding services will increase the complexity of using it all and keeping mental track of all the games and where they are.

Ugh.

[–] thejoker954 3 points 1 month ago

In the past couple years, I've gone from buying exclusively from steam to prioritizing buying/rebuying single player games from GOG.

Multiplayer games are still mostly through steam for convenience - same with VR games/games with VR mods.

I just wish GOG Galaxy was better. Development seems kinda stagnant.

I constantly have issues with the plugins to access other storefront libraries among other things.

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