Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Origin is still bad and so is whatever Ubisoft’s launcher is called.

    edit: for the record I didn’t say that steam was the best launcher, but I have found the launchers for world of warships and warthunder to be serviceable

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      Origin is now the “EA App” and Uplay is now “Ubisoft Connect”

      They can’t even keep consistent branding.

        • Snot FlickermanEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Dumbest change, in my opinion, is that now you have to have the EA App installed to see what games you own.

          If you log in on the EA website? Go fuck yourself, it won’t tell you any of the games tied to your account. Leaves you in the dark. Want to know what games you have licenses for? Better install their standalone PC desktop app, because they don’t have a mobile equivalent either.

          Making it hard to see what I own just gives me so much reason to not want to use it.

      • cottonmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s kind of funny. I feel that the rebranding was because those launchers sucked ( a common marketing tactic.) The thing is though, the EA App still sucks so it doesn’t do anything for its reputation.