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I don't think it will be a major blow. Ubisoft followed suit and just sells games on Steam but tacks on their awful DRM on top of steam. Origin is a joke in ter

I don't think it will be a major blow. Ubisoft followed suit and just sells games on Steam but tacks on their awful DRM on top of steam. Origin is a joke in terms of functionality and ease of use. The only advantage it has is the library of games if you so happen to like EA games, which has been very mixed in the last few years to say the least. I only own two games from there and would rather just buy a used PS4 copy than have to deal with that bad store. GoG is the only good alternative but they don't even aim to compete with steam since they offer a service of maintaining old games to be played on modern OS's. I was shocked that Steam sells games that quite literally do not work on anything more modern than XP!

rlonstein 8y ago
> I was shocked that Steam sells games that quite > literally do not work on anything more modern than XP! Interesting since they have EOLed the client on pre-Win7 systems. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFCM-4577 https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFC... This annoys me because I had Skyrim[1] in Wine on Linux for the occasional run but after the update I'm faced with working out what broke as I can't back out. . . [1] Purchased as a real physical DVD. Except the installer requires the use of the Steam client even for the base game.
Thaxll 8y ago
I'd like you to define "Origin is a joke in terms of functionality and ease of use" Because the shity Steam UI that is almost 15 y/o with multiple windows is good lol. The reason why major publisher went with their own is to not pay the crazy 30% fee on Steam.
- EamonnMR 8y ago
  Origin and Steam both have problems but frustratingly they're different problems, so the fact that I've learned to get to the tiny text that represents the Steam game I want to play does not help me find the incantation for getting the latest version of Origin to just list the games I have installed. Battle.net does a pretty good job-big game names, a big "PLAY" button, etc.
- tomc1985 8y ago
  What's wrong with multiple windows? It's desktop, not mobile

rlonstein 8y ago

> I was shocked that Steam sells games that quite > literally do not work on anything more modern than XP! Interesting since they have EOLed the client on pre-Win7 systems. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFCM-4577 https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFC... This annoys me because I had Skyrim[1] in Wine on Linux for the occasional run but after the update I'm faced with working out what broke as I can't back out. . . [1] Purchased as a real physical DVD. Except the installer requires the use of the Steam client even for the base game.

Thaxll 8y ago

I'd like you to define "Origin is a joke in terms of functionality and ease of use" Because the shity Steam UI that is almost 15 y/o with multiple windows is good lol. The reason why major publisher went with their own is to not pay the crazy 30% fee on Steam.

EamonnMR 8y ago
Origin and Steam both have problems but frustratingly they're different problems, so the fact that I've learned to get to the tiny text that represents the Steam game I want to play does not help me find the incantation for getting the latest version of Origin to just list the games I have installed. Battle.net does a pretty good job-big game names, a big "PLAY" button, etc.
tomc1985 8y ago
What's wrong with multiple windows? It's desktop, not mobile