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Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Carighan to c/games
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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Origin is still bad and so is whatever Ubisoft's launcher is called.

edit: for the record I didn't say that steam was the best launcher, but I have found the launchers for world of warships and warthunder to be serviceable

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Origin is now the "EA App" and Uplay is now "Ubisoft Connect"

They can't even keep consistent branding.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

they change the names because they suck

[–] Lime66 4 points 11 months ago

Ea app is origin without linux compatibility

[–] cottonmon 2 points 11 months ago

It's kind of funny. I feel that the rebranding was because those launchers sucked ( a common marketing tactic.) The thing is though, the EA App still sucks so it doesn't do anything for its reputation.