Launchers

Is this even a question? Steam. GoG is a close seconds. Origin is fucking awful, most boring UI ever contrived and takes years to load. Epic has like 12 games. Battle.net also has even less games. Uplay is unironnically fine imo, just not enough on it. Nice dark mode theme and shit.

>Just use your OS's desktop or file browser.
>what is drm

defeats the purpose of having a single launcher.

I just got into GoG Galaxy 2.0, it's so good that I think it overtook Steam for my favourite launcher

If your answer isn't gog you're retarded, DRM free games are unbeatable

GOG. Because there is no launcher. There's just your OS which is the way it's supposed to be.

>gog
>no launcher
Except there absolutely is

Steam. All others are mediocre or awful.

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i think that gog galaxy 2 is suppose to open the "extra" launcher on the background when launching steam game for example and shut it down after you close the game or something like that.
but i'm not sure. haven't tried it because i basically only use steam and even that is mostly to chat with old friends

gog, since you're not required to actually use thee launcher

unironically its all the same shit
people only defend steam because having one shit is enough and don't want more

Steam because you can gift games to other people

What's the difference between both?

Steam is hands down the best
Origin isn't TERRIBLE
Everything else is pretty shit

Steam's the best. Dunno if their update will fuck it up, though.

I think Blizzard's launcher is pretty snazzy. Games on a sidebar, and when you click on them you're given all the info and patch/update/launch options right there. The biggest problem is that it just shows all blizztivision games no matter what, even if I have no intention of playing them.
If steam was like blizzard's bnet launcher but you could designate which games appear on the main sidebar from the library (with the library on another tab) I think it would be pretty rad.

who cares we're all gonna die anyway

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not me

This
Why the fuck doesn't Epic have basic functionality like quick launching recent games by right-clicking the taskbar icon?

its in beta still i think

>he's mortal
Sucks to be you man

BUT IT GIVES THE DEVS AND PUBLISHERS MORE MONEY YOU INCEL, STOP CARING ABOUT BASIC CONSUMER QoL

were the first generation that will live forever

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Obviously Gog is the best, after that Steam is the lesser of evils

Ok so it's something new, it came out this year?

I know.. but you are also a dead man
yes, you too...
no, you will perish and no one will remember what you even were

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if all stores would be like gog i would actually buy games. the only time i really buy games is when they require multiplayer. steam is perfect for multiplayer.
why buy a game when i can't even install it without a launcher? i pay full price and don't even own the installer, wtf?
sorry but i bought the most games when they came with a box, booklet and printed cds.

i didn't have internet for 4 weeks and my gf gave me a couple of games on dvd. lmao, guess what happened? all games required online registration, even when you install the dvd.
i wanted to buy a magizine with some games, all required online registration.

it just feels weird to spend money on something i don't really fully own. i'd rather just pirate.

Steam has best functionality over all. I will say that steam’s visuals aren’t as modern as the other stores but they’re updating shit like the friend list and chat but it’s a very slow process

GoG has been around for awhile, GoG galaxy is the linking service in question that's still in beta.

I'm pretty sure you can

>it just feels weird to spend money on something i don't really fully own. i'd rather just pirate.
Why don't you buy the game then pirate it so you 'own' it?

don’t you use desktop icons?

>steam’s visuals aren’t as modern as the other stores
steam is lightyears ahead. the interface of steam is the best of all launcher.
i don't need bloated launchers who lag all the time and are broken as fuck.

what steam could actually do is enhance their search engine since their library gets too big.

I'm doing it right now and you can't
You CAN open the page to download the Unreal engine... hmmm, I smell Jewry

One day, long after humanity is gone, a bored partition of an ai mindcore will peruse the ancient internet and come across this website. They will see our posts of frustration, fun, sorrow, triumph, and failures. For a brief moment, they will know that we existed, that we were once here. And then it will delete all traces of our existence completely.

Official Launcher Power Rankings
1. Steam
2. GOG Galaxy 2.0
3. Battle.net
4. Origin
5. uPlay
6. Epic Games Store
7. Bethesda Game Launcher (please fucking kill this thing already Bethesda)

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Windows Explorer with a folder of shortcuts to the games I actually own and can start offline whenever I want without ever having established an internet connection.

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Launchers are shit, just use GOG without the launcher.

Nah, I'm straight

why bother paying money when you already have it cracked?

Steam is extremely generous nowadays about offline starting though. I used to have to all the time with my laptop. Dbl clicking shortcuts in the folders always worked for me

This is good but swap 1 and 2

I mean, your complaint wasn't about paying, it was about not 'owning' it. What problem do you have with paying for it after you've downloaded it?

As nice as GOG Galaxy 2.0 is, I don't think they have built-in controller support, a modding platform, or native Linux support through the usage of Proton do they?

this desu

I don't know about best but Origin is fucking cancer and I wish my friends didn't insist on playing Apex Legends. When that fad dies off I'm uninstalling this shit.

gog, because it's optional. do what I do. download the offline installers and install your games using it. the gog Galaxy client automatically detects the gog games and adds it to the library list.

is this image still true?

>paying to own a potentially unsafe cracked copy
lmao. nah thanks.

>still
it always will be. implying they care to give users authority over their store content. reviews would ruin their perfect facade

Depends on you and the type of games you play.
Wanna play something day 1? Shit outta luck because you'll have dip your toe in everything.
Like old games or can wait a year or so after release? GoG for minimal bullshit.
Want something that is almost feature complete in both services and community functionally? Steam's ahead in that.
Origin, whatever Ubisoft has, and Epic are all pretty meh and are only relevant because of exclusives and flagship IPs.

Steam. Why is this a question? Steam has built in controller support for the current popular console controllers and they've been working on linux ports for a lot of games. If you're into VR, they've made that ecosystem easy as you don't have to worry about compatibility too much. Steam will fucking emulate the version for your set up for you.

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>sign up for GOG galaxy 2.0 beta
>bunch of anons show that they got accepted
>I'm still waiting for the email saying I'm in

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forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2019/09/16/borderlands-3-pc-sales-reveal-an-important-truth-about-the-epic-games-store/#13d69d7c797b

OH NO NO NO NO STEAMDRONES

GoG is for when you just wanna play the game.
Steam lets you do more with modding, community stuff, content creation, etc.
Both are alright tho

Why do people trust Devs on information about the games Sales?
Why would they bash their own game, of course they're gonna say its the best shit ever.

Jewish bullshit. Only support DRM-free games from GoG, Humble Store, itch, or direct download from developer's website. Pirate everything else.

Useful, useless, useless, useless, useful, useful, useless, useless, useless, useless, useless, useless, use print scrn, useless, useless

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What makes GoG so special? I just don't get it, the only launcher I have ever used is steam cause I didn't knew others existed till I turn 17

i hope steam creates a policy that once you make an exclusive deal you can never sell any of your companies games on steam ever again. i would laugh so hard seeing this happen.

>have to be online to install games
>do not own the games
>have to wait for steam to start up most of the time
>have to pay for games
No thank you

They just released a policy saying that if is a game is exclusive for more then one month, they aren't allowed to sell it on steam.

Then what do you suggest? Become a pirate? that shit fucks computers, one tiny mistake and you brick your PC.

lmao nice.

Prtscrn is inconvenient at best, especially when you want to take multiple screenshots quickly

remember when you could buy a game, install it, and play it without any bullshit?
that's GoG.
their launcher in entirely optional too. just DL the installer from the site and play it on any computer. no internet required, no additional software needed.
tho it does have a few issues when it comes to online multiplayer games, but for singleplayer stuff it's the best choice.

Been pirating for my entire life, movies games and music, and never had this problem. Try not being a retard

Lutris. Sad that nobody has posted this yet.

How the fuck do you not mention built in third party controller support and linux ports?

>Become a pirate?
Yes.

>that shit fucks computers, one tiny mistake and you brick your PC
You hear this, lads? We've got a landlubber in our company.

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>remember when you could buy a game, install it, and play it without any bullshit?
No

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>using a launcher to play a game
What are you, gay?

farts

first post, truth post

if game selection is a non-issue, then fuck using a launcher at all.
i can find my games perfectly fine on my own, thank you very much

I literally only use three stores. Steam, GOG, and Uplay but only for Anno. I MIGHT dabble back into Battlenet for Reforged but that's it. Why in the fuck would I use anything else? Even Galaxy looks like a nice gimmick but if I only use three stores then it's just even more bloat that I don't need.

Oh and I ain't giving in to garbage subscription passes. Forget Epic, this is the real cancer coming our way.

I know youre joking but its almost impossible to get a virus if you don't have single digit IQ.

Stadia will flop you retarded doomposters.

I remember when games weren't tied to any launchers or online platforms. Those were the days.
You bought the game on physical media, and actually had full control over the game you bought. Absolutely insane I know but it used to be the norm. Can you imagine it?

kings quest 3 tackled piracy by making you physically type a 3-paragraph long spell incantation from the manual into the game, punctuation and everything character-perfect or the spell backfired

>be me
>never had a virus
>friends are playing a cracked version of WC3 through hamachi
>ask for a dl link, friend links a piratebay url
>download it without thinking because trust friend
>pc gets pozzed
>friend sent the first torrent he found, not the one he used
It could happen to you!!!

Games for Windows Live.

I can imagine it, it's called gog

>They just released a policy

That thing existed before the Epic Games Store become more than a Fortnite launcher you dumb shit

>trusting a retard
If he tells you to jump off a cliff, will you complain the he just pointed at a random cliff and not the one he usually jumps off of?

EGS has cloud saves for a limited selection of games, but the rest are still true I think.

No I've learnt my lesson but thank you for your concern

Technically you don't own pirated games. If they were ever found by the cyberpolice, they could delete them off your system

gamebyte.com/new-steam-policy-could-mean-games-cant-become-exclusives-elsewhere/

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>pirating games is illegal in his country
user, I

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GoG should be your first stop for games, then Steam for everything not on GoG.

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GoG fucking easily.

This. My bank gives me a surcharge when buying from GoG so I have to pay with PayPal, though

And the news is wrong. It's not a new policy. Also
>Now it seems as though Valve is taking action against this happening in the future, if Reddit is to be believed.
That's their fucking source

Steam's controller support is 10/10.
So it's a pretty simple process:

Is the game on GOG? Yes? Buy it there.
No? Then get it on Steam.
Rinse and repeat.

You only download games through it.
You don't have to have it running to play the games. Hell you could even unistall the launcher and the games you downloaded though it would still work.

You mean Playnite. Lutris is Linux only.

These "articles" are always so funny. So if CDPR becomes a massive success on GOG will that be another "revelation" as well?

RELEASE THE NUMBERS

Itch.io is also slowly growing in the indie space, and they're as good if not better than gog. No account required to buy games and they give devs a better cut than even Epic does.

Epic games

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Uplay is actually the best, it's clean and straight to the point. Nice dark theme. I only use it for Anno and Rayman, though

GOG>Steam>Battlenet>Origin>Uplay>EGS

>every launcher takes .04 cpu
>eventually you'll have 30-40 launchers sitting in your tray

Great

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There is only one answer.
Dead serious, there is no other launcher I have tried that has this one's flexibility.

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it's doing so well they won't release sales figures or concurrent players

I wonder what kind of retard you hav eto be to fall for that shit

redpill me on this

I've long since stopped giving a fuck about DRM, besides the cancer that is denuvo, so Steam is probably my go to pick with GOG a close second.

It is for Linux. Comfy scripts that make the install process easier.

I wish GoG had more games, at the moment it’s just a handful of really good titles and filler trash. Their sales are really good though if there’s a game for sale I’ll buy it through GoG > G2A > Steam.

Based

No epic no buy, as simple as that

Based Chang