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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)

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 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.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days 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.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days 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.

[–] EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Most people call that "Windows."