Benefit of Galaxy though it's drm free in that most games you can go to Gog.com and download and it's drm free. And if you link your account to steam you get certain games transfered over.It really has gotten to be absurd, especially with more and more games making themselves exclusive to certain platforms. Two great examples are Black Ops 4 being exclusive to B.Net, and the upcoming Fallout 76 being exclusive to Bethesda.Net.
We've got (exclusives in parentheses):
I mean for fuck's sake, that's SEVEN separate clients you have to use if you don't want to miss out on anything!
- Steam (More than I could ever possibly list)
- Origin (Most of EA's library)
- UPlay (Most of Ubisoft's library is 'semi-exclusive' since you must install/log into it even when playing via Steam)
- Battle.Net (Blizzard's entire library and even Black Ops 4)
- Bethesda.Net (Fallout 76, and surely more to come)
- Epic Games Launcher (Fortnite, and surely more to come)
- GOG Galaxy (Gwent, and surely more to come)
There's also the Windows Store, which has its own plethora of exclusives (Forza, Sea of Thieves, Gears of War, etc.). I didn't include it since it's pre-installed with Windows, but that's yet another client you have to fiddle with.
I, too, miss the days when you'd just buy a game at the store, install it, and launch it from the desktop without ever having to sign into or launch a separate service. You'd just double click the shortcut and be done with it. It was remarkably fast and simple. The downside, of course, was that it meant games weren't automatically kept up-to-date, but we always had sites like FilePlanet and GameSpy to take care of that. Disc swapping could also be a bitch, but if it annoyed you enough you could always fall back on "no CD" cracks to eliminate the need for discs all-together.
You don't miss the days of CD keys, serial ports, and patches that took months to be available?
If you just want to play the games as intended against other people using the same hardware as you, and far less likelihood of the game being overrun by hackers and modders than stick to console
When did it start being so complicated to play games on PC?
When was the last time you needed a boot disk to play a game?I wanted to boycott certain games not to have to deal with their DRM but eventually I caved in. I often forget that I even have certain games in Origin and Uplay since I never use them and have no physical copy to actually remind me that I own these games.
Amen.
Recently I was checking out Forza Horizon. But then realized that's yet another DRM. Damn Microsoft.
I wonder what happens if a DRM goes out of business. You lose hundreds/thousand dollars worth of games? It's like the game don't really belong to you nowadays. We are paying for a licence.
Just cause you were poor and had no computer knowledge doesn't mean playing games back then was more complicated. It's just as easy as it is today if not easier,
I wanted to boycott certain games not to have to deal with their DRM but eventually I caved in. I often forget that I even have certain games in Origin and Uplay since I never use them and have no physical copy to actually remind me that I own these games.
Amen.
Recently I was checking out Forza Horizon. But then realized that's yet another DRM. Damn Microsoft.
I wonder what happens if a DRM goes out of business. You lose hundreds/thousand dollars worth of games? It's like the game don't really belong to you nowadays. We are paying for a licence.
Just cause you were poor and had no computer knowledge doesn't mean playing games back then was more complicated. It's just as easy as it is today if not easier,