Steam One: Can Steam find a way to integrate Steam, Uplay and Origin?

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The other day I was juggling between Mass effect 3 on Origin, Watch Dogs on Uplay, and Total War on Steam. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Steam (or SOMEONE) could integrate all these jarringly different platforms? It's a serious pain having to switch between them without one unified experience.

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Buy a console. Problem solved.

If you want to be a PC gamer you have to accept that it's an open platform where publishers can do as they wish.

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Is it asking too much for publishers to consider how their customers purchase games?- No one wants to hunt around to buy a product on different platforms that essentially perform the same action- it's redundant and useless.. Organize your game library on Steam. Organize your game library on Origin. Organize your game library on Uplay- rememeber your seperate friend lists and who is playing on what platform for a specific game

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Diposting pertama kali oleh magicalpiano:

it's redundant and useless..

So is your post. This is an open market. If you don't like that stop playing PC games.

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Just because it's open market doesn't mean platform creators and publishers can't try to streamline the experience for their customers.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh magicalpiano:

Just because it's open market doesn't mean platform creators and developers can't try to streamline the experience for their customers.

it does when profit is involved.

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It makes no sense to put the onus on the customer. If EA were sane they might realize having a "uplay exclusive" is counterproductive. It's roughly like iTunes and Spofity , allow the customer to choose where they want to buy and interact with their product with the same product available on both platforms. Through competition and evolution the superior platform will win out according to the individual preferences of the consumer.

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It would be nice to have everything on one list or store. But you have to understand that those companies made an investment in their platforms and it would be foolish to not try to benefit from using them. Those publishers have the right to use their platforms. It is highly doubtful they will merge or anything.

[Black Blade]

Diposting pertama kali oleh supertrooper225:

It would be nice to have everything on one list or store. But you have to understand that those companies made an investment in their platforms and it would be foolish to not try to benefit from using them. Those publishers have the right to use their platforms. It is kighly doubtful they will merge or anything.

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But yet, with hard work and so on, i think users maybe can make a tool to allow it, also note that Steam can run games as a Non-Steam game, as of that, you may be able to start the games and use the Steam over-lay for Uplay and Origin from Steam
Its possible on Orign as well
but as Origin has a shutdown when done, it may be better to use the Steam one
UPlay i do not know

I think using that its possible to make Origin and UPlay games run from inside Steam, and also have the over-lay, so you can have the friends there
Hope these maybe helps, if you need more help ask and il take a deeper research on how to really do it

But i do not think the Publisher will connect to one as said before, the reason its worth for them to run there own servers, on there own DRM is to get more profit, as its there space they get full profit from someone buying there games there, unlike buying games from others platforms

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Black Blade:

I think using that its possible to make Origin and UPlay games run from inside Steam, and also have the over-lay, so you can have the friends there
Hope these maybe helps, if you need more help ask and il take a deeper research on how to really do it

It's definitely possible with Origin - I do it every day. I have Origin (and my Origin games) added to the client as non-Steam games. I start up Origin from within Steam, which runs it under the Steam process. Then start the game (in my case, Mass Effect because I got the whole trilogy on Origin) from Steam also. I have access to the overlay with chat, etc, and can even upload screenshots to my Steam account.

Not sure about Uplay, though because I never tried it.

[Black Blade]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Mahnogard:

It's definitely possible with Origin - I do it every day. I have Origin (and my Origin games) added to the client as non-Steam games. I start up Origin from within Steam, which runs it under the Steam process. Then start the game (in my case, Mass Effect because I got the whole trilogy on Origin) from Steam also. I have access to the overlay with chat, etc, and can even upload screenshots to my Steam account.

Not sure about Uplay, though because I never tried it.

Thanks for confirming it

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Diposting pertama kali oleh ONe_mOMENT:

Diposting pertama kali oleh magicalpiano:

Just because it's open market doesn't mean platform creators and developers can't try to streamline the experience for their customers.

it does when profit is involved.

Why u got to be a ♥♥♥♥, this is a game forum, nobody wants ♥♥♥♥♥ around here....

[wuddih]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Paradise:

Diposting pertama kali oleh ONe_mOMENT:

it does when profit is involved.

Why u got to be a ♥♥♥♥, this is a game forum, nobody wants ♥♥♥♥♥ around here....

and this thread is a year old. reading is not optional and you should consider trying it.