Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by indigochill on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:39PM
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I'd personally put GoG ahead of Steam, and not just for "grr Steam" reasons. Steam has a habit of breaking in weird ways like telling me I can't view my own achievements because my profile is private or suddenly wanting to download 0 bytes for half the games in my library. GoG on the other hand has been totally rock-solid for me.
Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by dleslie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:43PM
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I prefer GoG, as well. I was attempting to express my understanding of the generally sentiment that I see from gamers
I have a cron job that backs up my library every two weeks via lgogdownloader
Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by TheGRS on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:01PM
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People hated Origin pretty bad, but EA stuck to their guns. IMO its a pretty awful experience. And to be honest Steam isn't exactly a great experience either. I noticed they're finally doing a face lift on their storefront soon, perhaps from the competition?
Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by dleslie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:04PM
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At least Origin didn't vacuum up exclusives from non-EA publishers. People who hated Origin probably already hated EA, too.
The Steam library update had been years in the making.
Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by gruez on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:45PM
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>UPlay: awful and hated
What's so bad about uplay?
Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
by Macha on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:53PM
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* Reliability (both servers and client). Everytime I try to a play a uplay game I've had to screw around with getting a fresh installation of the uplay client.
* Client performance
* Similar to Origin, part of the motivation is so the games don't have to compete with the price of games on Steam, so end up being more expensive.
IMHO:
GFWL: awful and hated, dead now
UPlay: awful and hated
Steam: best in class and loved
GoG: second best in class and accepted
Origin: good and tolerated
Blizzard: good and tolerated
Epic: awful and hated