> I buy games from Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat.
Absolutely unhinged opinion.
Absolutely unhinged opinion.
Epic: Basic library management, No user reviews system, Missing social features like forums, No mod support integration, Inconsistent cloud save functionality, Aggressive exclusive deals that remove games from other platforms, Perceived as "buying" market share rather than earning it, Heavy reliance on free games to attract users, Slower, less responsive launcher, More frequent bugs and crashes, Limited offline functionality Fewer accessibility options, No linux support and aggressive stance against free software in general.
For the rest of the stores some are better than others but at the end of the day they're "better features" rather than fundamentally better, like GOG is. Because ultimately what I'm doing is buying a game, not a forum or a review (as useful as those are), and definitely not renting a game.
You "have" games on Steam as much as you "have" the apartment you're currently renting.
GOG is pretty great.
Some of those examples are almost parodistic, specifically compared to the Epic Games Store equivalent offered. It feels there's something missing from the full story presented here.
And the library management is pretty basic. And the whole thing is slowwww. Especially, if you don't know what to play and need to look at multiple store pages to figure out what those games are about. I switched to Playnite
The article mentions things like input APIs, so I kind of understand where the author is coming from. As someone who doesn't play a lot of games, it sounds like a very valid opinion to me.