I haven't lifted a finger in any of these sales for years, since they done away with daily deals and flash sales.
Now it's just boring, with lackluster discounts. Most of the games I've seen for cheaper before, some I bought cheaper years ago than current sale prices.
Those reasons are EXACTLY the issues I've been having with the big Steam Sales for years.
yeah, the sales are mostly garbage now
Yeah they really are. It used to be a lot easier to just wait for a game to hit the sale price I want. Now I have to wait a long time, if it even happens at all. Those insane sale prices used to be one of the biggest draws of using the Steam store. My friends who moved from mainly console gaming to PC gaming during the 7th-gen days really appreciated those sales.
I remember trying out the Windows Store when it was tied to XBGP and it was a utter ****tastic experience of locked folders and a general giant mess on my hard drives, so I won't be going back to that ever again
Yupz, that's how it's always been with UWP games, and that remains the case to this day. I own 3 UWP games and I sorely regret those purchases. I won't ever be doing that sh1t again.
I bought a couple of things on EGS on a sale once and regretted it, that is slow and I hate having to load it up just to play those couple of things. Same thing with Origin
The only reason I have an EGS account was cuz I made it to do Unreal Engine dev stuff, which also requires their launcher. This was before they had a store where you could buy games, or anything really. Then one day they offered a free copy of the PC port of
Shadow Complex. That might have been the first game they ever had on EGS, but again there wasn't really a store yet. So I used the launcher to play through that game (was my second time cuz I played and enjoyed it many years earlier via XBLA on X360). Now I just use my EGS account to grab the free games they give away, but I've never really run any of those games through EGS. One game I did run through their launcher was
Borderlands 3, which was a game that came with a friend's graphics card, and he already had a free copy from another piece of hardware, so he gave me that 2nd copy. We were doing local co-op in that game for a while. In general I agree about the EGS launcher, I'd just rather not use it.
Origin I've used a few times. Also not great. Also I'll never forget how
SW Jedi: Fallen Order (which I received as a gift on Steam) installed an Origin thin client rather than using the full version of Origin I already had installed at the time. This thin client royally f*cked up regular Origin. Trying to remove both was a real pain in the @ss that involved a lot of registry editing/deleting and a lot of time spent in Windows Safe Mode. I haven't used Origin since. Afraid to let it back on my system in any form.
I haven't touched Ubisoft's launcher
I did once, to play a free weekend demo of
The Crew 2 on Steam. It was about as bad as all the other ones. This was after it had changed from 'uPlay" to "Connect" or whatever the ended up changing the name to.
By far the worst launcher I have ever used was the Bethesda one. I was in the closed beta for
Quake Champions so I had to use it. The launcher made me not even want to play the game. I never even finished the beta testing period. I could NOT uninstall that launcher fast enough. A friend of mine works for Zenimax, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks (so now they are also Microsoft employees). This friend offered me free copies of
Doom Eternal and
Doom 64 when those games came out. When I found out they were the versions that used the Bethesda launcher, I declined.
Doom 64 is only 5 bucks (and worth way more than that) so I just bought it (and has often been on sale for well under $2 often enough), and I got
Doom Eternal as a gift (and I'm glad I didn't pay for it cuz that game was a disappointment). Ironically I had also pre-ordered
Doom Eternal from Green Man Gaming I think it was (this was before my friend offered me a copy), and when I saw that it was for the Bethesda launcher version, I canceled that pre-order.
the new download assets from local computers when able thing
That sh1t has been pretty cool. Seeing my laptop pull Steam game update data from the desktop PC, and vice-versa.
being able to share libraries with members of my family
And friends. That sh1t has been EXTREMELY helpful over the years. In a day and age where PC games no longer have physical copies, Steam library sharing has become the closest thing to letting a friend borrow a game, or borrowing a game from a friend. I can't stand it when developers configure their games to NOT be able to be shared through Steam library sharing. That's a real dick move.
