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Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse by dleslie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:45PM (#19598010)
The difference is that people don't really hate exclusives on the publisher's own store unless the store is awful.

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

Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse by indigochill on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:39PM (#19598438)
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 (#19598465)
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 (#19598153)
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 (#19598177)
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 (#19598482)
>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 (#19599416)
* 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.

Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse by dleslie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:31PM (#19599304)
In my experience, I'm unlikely to be able to play games due to issues with their auth servers.
Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse by gsich on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:25PM (#19598804)
It's not Steam. /s