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Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Steam is undoubtedly convenient.

But if any game you care about keeping is on GOG, it's a good idea to buy a copy on there, and then squirreling away the offline installer files/extracted game files somewhere safe.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Steam is undoubtedly inconvenient. Imagine a third party proprietary launcher filled with ads was required to use your browser.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    You can use steam without ever seeing an ad. Due to low internet bandwidth I just turned off the couple of popups and I currently see 0 ads if I don't specifically go to the store part. Steam boots into library, so no ads, none in downloads. I don't use the rest unless I'm actually looking for a new game.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The only "ad" steam pushes into your face is the startup pop-up, which can be disabled in settings.

    Without that, you can use whatever you like to launch your games. Valve doesn't care. You can have a desktop shortcut for every one of your games and never see steam open, or use something like PlayNite to aggregate the games from several services into one library.

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