advantages of Steam:
- platform where your friends are
- platform you already use where are all your games are, no need to divide it
- no need to start using yet ANOTHER storefront / account / CC info / what have you
- ability to use your Steam credit you earned to buy the game rather than your money
- screenshots
- achievements
- guides
- all these within overlay
- SALES, chance for the game to go cheaper
- the fact that every other storefront has had one way to fuck up or another. be it lost saves, file corruption, slow downloads, whatever the fuck
- this alternative is virtually GFWL 2.0 which was by far the worse of all these other storefronts
Well, I play on PC since 1998, it's not that old but I still have a little experience on this plateform.
I also precise that I'm not a "MS fanboy" or something like that, I don't even own a Xbox One since I own a PC and all interesting games (to me) of the XO comes to PC so I don't need a XO.
So let me answer to all your sentences.
- platform where your friends are
>Well yes possibly, but here we're talking about a solo game so it's not a great problem in that case. It could be one in the case of a multiplayer game like Halo, yes. But... MS OWN Quantum Break, you can't ask them to put the game on another store if they don't want and want focus on their store...
- platform you already use where are all your games are, no need to divide it
> I personally don't care... If you think like that then you don't play any Nintendo game since they don't come out on PC, you don't play Uncharted since it's not on PC... I personally would like an unified plateform with everything coming out on ONE device/service, but it's still not the case and it has never been so I just deal with it.
- no need to start using yet ANOTHER storefront / account / CC info / what have you
> Well again it's (to me, no offense) a ridiculous argument. Then you if you're an "Amazon buyer" you won't buy a game which is sold out on Amazon but in stock in Gamestop (or whatever stores you have in USA)? Because you don't want another account and give again your CC info? :/
- ability to use your Steam credit you earned to buy the game rather than your money
> Well it's not like you can't buy any other Steam games anytime later... xD I mean if I buy a game on PS4 I won't complain because I couldn't use my Nintendo eShop credit...
- screenshots
> ? There's screenshots on W10 games too (I've just finished ROTR on W10 and it worked fine and you can take screenshots by pressong keyboards button like on Steam games and even record videos. It works perfectly.
- achievements
> There's achievements on W10, it's share with Xbox 360/XO achievements, no problems here too.
- guides
> Internet exists outside of Steam Internet browser... Come on!
- all these within overlay
> Alt tab works fine on W10 games, such as ROTR, and it doesn't cut your game or crash or anything, it's as easy to press alt + tab than press the 2 keys of Steam.
- SALES, chance for the game to go cheaper
> Steam is not the only place where you can buy PC games online... There are many (legal) PC keys store online and they do way more sales than Steam and wayyy cheaper. I also think that if MS push W10 games they will also more and more do sales on their store.
- the fact that every other storefront has had one way to fuck up or another. be it lost saves, file corruption, slow downloads, whatever the fuck
> Well yes on W10 store the downloads are really slow and it's a problem, they should improve that, so yes on that I agree, kinda.
- this alternative is virtually GFWL 2.0 which was by far the worse of all these other storefronts
> Kinda... But not really, GFWL was a software, it was not tied to the OS, the Store on W10 is in EVERY Windows 10 versions, it's a part of the OS, there's no way they'll give up on it so easily than GFWL.
So you see... Not everybody think the same, even in the PC gamers community.
And I mean, yes I would like that QB comes out on Steam, as you said it's cool to have your games in the same "place", but still... It's not enough to be a deal breaker for me.
I mean, Quantum Break was the ONLY ONE game on Xbox One that made me want to buy a XO in the future, and because of this announcement of the game coming and W10 store, I know that I will be able to run it on my PC (so in better conditions than on XO) and enjoy the game without the need of buying this console... I mean, maybe I'm too optimistic I dunno, but I feel it's great, I'm just happy to be able to play this game.
And also I understand MS and their purpose to focus on their own W10 Store... I mean everybody says that this store is empty, so it's useless, but when they try to bring (exclusive) content then people say "oh damn wtf, I wanted it on Steam"... :/
We can also feel that they're trying to move their gaming community in PC, that's cool. We always complained that MS didn't try enough on PC and now that they do, people still complain...
About other storefront like Origin or Uplay, it has been really improved, Origin now is really ok to use, there's no problem at all, and same for Uplay (and God I really dislike Ubisoft... Except The Division : I'm looking forward for this game).
So no I don't see any reason to complain. It's just my opinion of course but I wanted to give it.
