I played GTA V first by borrowing the X360 version from a friend, then later on PC using a "community demo" (though I never did finish that run, though I got most of the way through the game). Some time after that they gave the game away for free on EGS. I grabbed it, as I do most of the free EGS stuff, but I also never actually use stuff I've gotten on EGS. There are games I have on EGS where I just used a friend's Steam copy instead, or I bought a game on Steam or GOG that I already had on EGS (which has happened cuz I forget what games I even have on EGS). There was a time I was willing to pay for GTA V. But their usual disdain towards PC, the late PC version, and the too-high price when it finally did come to PC drove me to instead check the game out from the "community library".
Things used to be worse. Before the Rockstar launcher there was the Rockstar Social Club software. The launcher was an improvement from that PoS, which is sad to say.
RDR2 same story but I will probably do that one at some point.
A friend of mine used a community demo to play through that game, but for some reason I gave Rockstar money for it, though it was at a good sale price. Pretty good game I guess, but I recall the first game being better.
tried to sometime last year and the stupid rockstar launcher boned up my account and I couldn't log in.
I lost my Blizzard Battle.Net account many years ago when trying to set up an authenticator and things somehow went awry. Their customer service was no f*cking help at all in trying to get my account back. I didn't have any paid games tied to the account, so I just abandoned it. Any Blizzard game I wanted to play I either played on console (Diablo 3, which was a mistake to play on console), or I grabbed a community demo, or I waited for the game to show up on other platform like Steam. And well with the way Blizzard is now, I don't really want to play
anything they make, so no real loss in the end.
