is it wrong to reject a game because its not on steam?

[J.S.D]

just a thought. i some times find games less desirable when they are not on steam. as matter of fact i never did play the last mass effect not finding it on steam was enough of a reason for me to lose interest. that goes for overwatch and fortnite and so on and so on. and yet i don't feel like i'm missing out on something. so i ask again do you think it is wrong to reject a game because it is not on steam?

[Glass Mother]

No.

Every game which is not sold on Steam or comes with a Steam code might as well not exist for me. And screw every developer who thinks to release the latest part of their franchise which were on Steam before on another platform.

That's the reason I never bothered with Mass Effect, Battlefield, Blizzard games and stuff like that.

Thanks Ubisoft for releasing your games both on Steam and uPlay.

[HALO_run]

some games yes some games no, as they say it's up, to you what you like and do not like,

also you didn't older games or newer games, because not all games need to be on steam to be good, just being on steam won't mean there good, that and no mods, if ya even been to moddb, then you'd know what i mean.

[Radene]

Look, it's casual entertainment. You do you.

[ハイイロギツネ]

Well, you will miss out on many exclusive games from Bethesda, Microsoft and Blizzard as they are switching to their own clients.

[Beyond]

I just play specific games on both steam and console for my own exclusive taste, even if they're on steam already.

[Phantom]

Quake Live wasn't on Steam when it thrived.

Bethesda was forced to bring it Steam when its player-base fell tremendously.

Regardless of that, it's because the game was once free.

So, no, you don't have to dislike a game because it doesn't exist on the Steam Store.

The Steamdirect process requires a fee and some other processes through the Steamworks API.

Some developers simply don't want to go through these processes.

The potential benefits such as your own community hub, MM, reviews, Store pages, automatic updates are disregarded.

Its their choice.

[Glass Mother]

fauxtronic eredeti hozzászólása:

Of those three, I'm betting Bethesda will change their tune once they realise how much it affects their bottom line.

This. I doubt that Doom Eternal, Rage 2 and Wolfenstein: Youngblood will stay on bethesda.net for a long, long time.

[Spawn of Totoro]

It isn't about right or wrong, but what one prefers.

If you want all your games on Steam, you can avoid games not on Steam all you want.

For those of us who just want to play games, we will buy them where ever we want to.

[Glass Mother]

Spawn of Totoro eredeti hozzászólása:

It isn't about right or wrong, but what one prefers.

If you want all your games on Steam, you can avoid games not on Steam all you want.

For those of us who just want to play games, we will buy them where ever we want to.

That's the point: you can't choose "where ever you want to".
If those games are released on GOG, Uplay, Steam and betehsda.net nobody would make a fuss about it. But if you decide all of a sudden to exclude the previous platform where you etablished a solid userbase and released all previous games and only sell it on your own launcher/website - that's what sucks. Hard.

[BossGalaga]

Play whatever you want to play. Don't play whatever you don't want to play. They are games. Whatever you want to play is what is right.

[TheFoxPlayer]

No same here. I bought mass effect and stopped playing it just because it's not in steam.

[Daxank]

Yes and no.
Yes if you actually do buy other games on the platform that the other game is sold on.
No if you want all your games on steam. People shouldn't have to buy a game on a specific platform because it's the only place where it's available. People should have the choice of platform on which they want to buy a game because it's their platform of choice

[Florida Man]

It wholey depends on what game it is.

[L7vanmatre]

Not wrong at all. I'm the same way, though on occasion I do get games from other platforms. But I just wish every game was on Steam. Would make my game sorting life a lot easier.

[ErickaUnlimited]

Nope, nothing wrong with that. For me, if the games not on Steam I simply ignore it (except for one exception).