Anyone know of a/any alternative(s) to Steam.

[Kobold]

I am just curious what game manager do you use and how do you find it compares to steam. What is does worse then steam. Is it better in any way, etc.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

引用自 xyzforgottenme：

What happened to Desura to make it defunct?

The company that operated it went bankrupt.

Before that, it operated Desura, and the bundle site Indie Royale. Desura sold games like Steam does, except it had a number of indie games that had yet to get onto Steam. It also had a handful of AAA games, such as the Fallout series.

It was "Steam for indie games", as some people put it, and so it filled a niche similar to what itch.io occupies today. Except that this was before or early on in this huge explosion in indie games.

引用自 Glimmer：

Galaxy is an optional component of GoG's system. You can download and run the games without ever touching their client.

Wow, that is actually pretty cool, so do you just long in and download from your account?

When you buy from GOG, you have a choice of downloading a standalone installer, or having their client program Galaxy do the download for you. If you previously used the standalone downloader, you can easily have Galaxy add it to your library and maintain it. You can also tell Galaxy to download backups.

Furthermore, Galaxy allows convenient access to older versions of a game, where available, through the Update Rollback feature. Steam, in contrast, does what it can to force people to be on the most updated version of a game. This latter approach is perhaps most useful for multiplayer games, but may be problematic for modding-heavy single-player games.

[Kobold]

引用自 Quint the Pondering Ghost：

引用自 xyzforgottenme：

What happened to Desura to make it defunct?

The company that operated it went bankrupt.

Before that, it operated Desura, and the bundle site Indie Royale. Desura sold games like Steam does, except it had a number of indie games that had yet to get onto Steam. It also had a handful of AAA games, such as the Fallout series.

It was "Steam for indie games", as some people put it, and so it filled a niche similar to what itch.io occupies today. Except that this was before or early on in this huge explosion in indie games.

Wow, that is actually pretty cool, so do you just long in and download from your account?

When you buy from GOG, you have a choice of downloading a standalone installer, or having their client program Galaxy do the download for you. If you previously used the standalone downloader, you can easily have Galaxy add it to your library and maintain it. You can also tell Galaxy to download backups.

Furthermore, Galaxy allows convenient access to older versions of a game, where available, through the Update Rollback feature. Steam, in contrast, does what it can to force people to be on the most updated version of a game. This latter approach is perhaps most useful for multiplayer games, but may be problematic for modding-heavy single-player games.

I guess for people who play skyrim+extra this is a sort of God like Feature. When did this get moved to Steam community, I didn't think I posted it in this fourm.

[Kobold]

引用自 theseraph1：

GFWL stands for Games for Windows Live..



perhaps you haven't been gaming long enough to remember, but it was one of Microsofts earlier attempts at an online DRM solution.. was pretty crappy software though

Thanks, so I guess their windows store is the new latest attempt.