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PC gamers, which clients do you have installed?
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Steam, Origin, Uplay, Gog and EGS. Only used GOG and EGS to download my DRM free games so they haven't been used since I built my PC. Uplay is only there cause I got Watch_Dogs 1 and 2 for free. Origin is reqiired for Titanfall 2. Steam is used constantly though, launch literally every game from every launcher and emulators from there so I can use my Steam Controller and all the other features it has.
There's still a bunch of other launchers too if you're into MMOs. Like Glyph for Trion games, NC Soft Games launcher, and many game specific launchers. And yeah, they run on top of Steam. Like I've been trying to play LOTRO again lately but it's stuck on its archaic launcher trying to install some requirements.
That's weird, people with obviously very real concerns about the PC market keep claiming Steam has a "monopoly" that can only be dismantled by Tim Epic buying Shenmue and Borderlands, yet the majority of replies here state that they use multiple launchers that existed prior to EGS and 57% of poll respondents have at least 1 other launcher. Have prankster uncles been tampering with this poll?
Battle.net because my GPU came with COD Modern Warfare last year. Claimed it but never played it.
Epic Games Store to claim free games and also to play games that only get released there temporarly (E.G. Quantic Dream games, or KH games this spring)
GOG Galaxy to play Cyberpunk 2077
Steam for every other game and key I buy
Ubisoft Connect (I still have Uplay, didn't update) to claim free games
Xbox for Game Pass (playing Yakuza 3 right now)
Epic Games Store to claim free games and also to play games that only get released there temporarly (E.G. Quantic Dream games, or KH games this spring)
GOG Galaxy to play Cyberpunk 2077
Steam for every other game and key I buy
Ubisoft Connect (I still have Uplay, didn't update) to claim free games
Xbox for Game Pass (playing Yakuza 3 right now)
Both can be true. Launcher =/= storefront =/= market share.
If the question was "which store do you buy 95% on your games on", i can assure you, that neither Battle.net, nor Ubisoft, nor Epic, nor Origin, nor GOG would be the winning entry (by a mile, i'd presume).
Battle.net is a store front that releases like 1 game a year. Most people have EGS installed to add free games to their library. None of that contradicts the idea that Steam hogs most of the actual market share within the PC games market.
I am opposed to their business practices, specifically attempting to bring console style "exclusives" into the PC space via their vast warchest of cash earned on the back of selling loot boxes to children.
The PC is an open platform, and anybody creating a walled garden is a regressive and unwelcome influence. Epic specifically have a tumultuous past in the PC space, and are deserving of even more suspicion than others.
To be real, beside any of that principled shit, Tim Sweeney is just a prick who I don't want to support.
steam - for most of my pc gaming library
epic - played a few games on it. got all those free games too of course.
battle.net - just for overwatch
gog galaxy - got a handful of games on it that i haven't really played. mainly used it for sorting my collection, but i use backloggd now for that.
itch - where i play the rest of my tiny indie games.
used to have uplay and origin but uninstalled them since i wasn't using them. i do have to eventually reinstall the former when i get around to playing watch dogs 1 and 2, and i might do the same for the latter if i feel the itch to play apex legends again on pc.
epic - played a few games on it. got all those free games too of course.
battle.net - just for overwatch
gog galaxy - got a handful of games on it that i haven't really played. mainly used it for sorting my collection, but i use backloggd now for that.
itch - where i play the rest of my tiny indie games.
used to have uplay and origin but uninstalled them since i wasn't using them. i do have to eventually reinstall the former when i get around to playing watch dogs 1 and 2, and i might do the same for the latter if i feel the itch to play apex legends again on pc.
All but the EGS, the vast majority of my time is spent on Steam though, I only use the other clients on the very rare occasion I absolutely have to play something that's locked to them (or if I want to play something for cheap on GamePass in the case of the Xbox store).
Epic for fortnite/hitman/hades and a few free games
Steam for the rest
Origin for sims (lol)
Steam for the rest
Origin for sims (lol)
There are lootboxes in fortnite now?
Steam for everything.
Origin for Sims 4.
Ubisoft for some reason. I'm never booting up another Ubisoft game so I can uninstall that.
GoG for the oldies.
Steam is the only Client that boots on launch and it's the only one that I like.
Origin for Sims 4.
Ubisoft for some reason. I'm never booting up another Ubisoft game so I can uninstall that.
GoG for the oldies.
Steam is the only Client that boots on launch and it's the only one that I like.
Interesting that except for Steam, which expectedly pretty much everyone has, it's pretty even among the rest of them. All hovering around 50 - 60%. I didn't expect that.
For me it's Steam, Origin, Ubi, EGS, Xbox, and Rockstar. Steam is #1 of course, I buy all my games on Steam if I have the option. Xbox is for Game Pass. Origin, Ubi and Rockstar are because you need them and I'm not averse to buying off them if there's a good deal. And EGS is for free shit. Only Steam is set to boot up at launch.
For me it's Steam, Origin, Ubi, EGS, Xbox, and Rockstar. Steam is #1 of course, I buy all my games on Steam if I have the option. Xbox is for Game Pass. Origin, Ubi and Rockstar are because you need them and I'm not averse to buying off them if there's a good deal. And EGS is for free shit. Only Steam is set to boot up at launch.
Bnet
Origin
Steam
GOG
EGS
Which I then all collect into GOG. I wish it worked better cause I love the client otherwise.
Maybe I oughta just switch to Playnite
Origin
Steam
GOG
EGS
Which I then all collect into GOG. I wish it worked better cause I love the client otherwise.
Maybe I oughta just switch to Playnite
out of these I have steam/gog galaxy/xbox ones installed
steam is the only one I really ever use, I just happen to still have the xbox one installed from dabbling with gamepass a bit in the past and I have gog galaxy for a few old games that aren't on steam that I hardly ever play
I also currently have the Oculus launcher(some VR stuff) and Riot's launcher(played legends of runeterra a bit a while back) installed but haven't used either of those in a while either
first you need to understand that I don't really ever want to use anything other than Steam to begin with, it's feature set is just objectively superior to other clients and when not even something like gamepass is enough to get me to not want to just use steam some free games here and there sure as hell isn't enough either
then you throw on all the resentment over their stupid exclusives stuff as well and it's basically the easiest thing in the world to never use them
steam is the only one I really ever use, I just happen to still have the xbox one installed from dabbling with gamepass a bit in the past and I have gog galaxy for a few old games that aren't on steam that I hardly ever play
I also currently have the Oculus launcher(some VR stuff) and Riot's launcher(played legends of runeterra a bit a while back) installed but haven't used either of those in a while either
first you need to understand that I don't really ever want to use anything other than Steam to begin with, it's feature set is just objectively superior to other clients and when not even something like gamepass is enough to get me to not want to just use steam some free games here and there sure as hell isn't enough either
then you throw on all the resentment over their stupid exclusives stuff as well and it's basically the easiest thing in the world to never use them
Their timed deals have the opposite effect on me, I just get more averse and not more likely to use it.
All except GOG. Deleted my account when CDP started being transphobic assholes.
Only have Battle.net installed because I got a Codblopswar key with my 3080.
I also have itch and Rockstar's thing.
Rockstar puts out like two games per decade. Out of all clients, that one feels the most like a pointless inconvenience, a hoop to jump through so Rockstar has more control. Although Microsoft's client is the worst. Broken, kills mods.
Only have Battle.net installed because I got a Codblopswar key with my 3080.
I also have itch and Rockstar's thing.
Rockstar puts out like two games per decade. Out of all clients, that one feels the most like a pointless inconvenience, a hoop to jump through so Rockstar has more control. Although Microsoft's client is the worst. Broken, kills mods.
