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[Laptop1991]

It may be the biggest now, i have used it since 2010, but in recent times im using GOG more, mainly due to Bethesda and their awful updates, but also due to the "you dont own your games" but give us more money crap, also where i can download back ups of my games and even use the game exe in the game folder from GOG to bypass the launcher completely and play games like they use to be before all these clients.

 

[Botan32]

The great strength of Steam, and therefore of PCs in general, is that even a laptop with an AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics card can run over 95% of the games available on it.
And for the rare ones that require RTX, such as Indiana or FF7 Rebirth, cloud gaming exists.

That is the great strength of PCs.

 

[bender]

What is steam?

 

[Topher]

Yeah, GOG is the best store on pc....just for the way they deliver games. But if only a few devs are releasing over there...what can you do!

Why do you think GOG is a better store than Steam?

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Technically it is.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Becoming? Steam has more installs than all consoles combined and has for years

 

[pudel]

Why do you think GOG is a better store than Steam?

I mentioned it...the way they deliver a game. It basically makes sure you can play yr game "offline" at any given time without saying "hello" to any fckn server (its yr game!). Optional, you can do that of course...but its not required...and thats the best way you can deliver a game imho.

 

[Three]

I guess some people have to get that PR out there with BF coming up.

 

[Brakum]

Some guys have definitely a bigger userbase on console. The reason steam numbers are the only metric used for success is because it's the only one that is publicly available.

 

[Griffon]

It's already bigger than consoles.

 

[Mortisfacio]

It's not becoming. It is and has been the #1 platform. #1 in quality and #1 in userbase (#3 if counting mobile platforms, it's Apple and Google ahead).

 

[Topher]

I mentioned it...the way they deliver a game. It basically makes sure you can play yr game "offline" at any given time without saying "hello" to any fckn server (its yr game!). Optional, you can do that of course...but its not required...and thats the best way you can deliver a game imho.

Ah…I misread

 

[Guilty_AI]

Why do you think GOG is a better store than Steam?

They essentially sell physical games digitally.

 

[pudel]

They essentially sell physical games digitally.

If yr physical disc or cartridge needs to connect to "something online" before you start the game...its just worthless to be on a disc or cartridge. Change my mind!

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Steam is becoming more popular every year that goes by. Is steam ahead of all consoles now? Except for Nintendos first party offerings i guess.

Concurrent users on PC seems to be the number one indication how well a game has sold.

Becoming? It already is. Steam became bigger than Xbox One in the mid PS4 era, and now it's bigger than PS4+PS5 combined (Monthly Active Users and Concurrent users) and PC gaming is still growing in users unlike the console market which stopped growing. People are acting like it's 2007 era Steam but modern Steam is a behemoth.

 

[Guilty_AI]

If yr physical disc or cartridge needs to connect to "something online" before you start the game...its just worthless to be on a disc or cartridge. Change my mind!

Eh, pretty much. Its also an issue for games that need tons of updates or have a lot of DLC. Whoever owns a release NMS or Cyberpunk disc, does not actually have the game everyone else likes stored away. Though admitedly such copies can be good curiosities.

 

[Kacho]

If yr physical disc or cartridge needs to connect to "something online" before you start the game...its just worthless to be on a disc or cartridge. Change my mind!

That's why I don't give digital ownership a second thought. Physical doesn't make any sense to me other than having plastic to take up shelf space.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

PC often doesn't sell as many games as consoles but to be fair they have a lot more games to pick from.

Bunch of big games sell best on PC now which used to be unthinkable in the PS1, PS2 and PS3 era. Hell Capcom a premier console publisher switched their lead platform from PS5 to PC a couple years ago when Capcom games on PC started outselling the Playstation version. Their financial report recently showed how PC is actually growing it's market share further outselling consoles like the PS5.

All of this would be heresy back in the 90s-2010s, but times have changed. It helps that PC continues to grow in users while consoles stopped growing. That means there's still new consumers growing the platform that can then buy these games, on console companies now need to figure out a way to make more money per customer to grow their business, while on PC they just need to court these new PC gamers.

 

[MacReady13]

I'd say so. It definitely has for me. I hardly game on PS5 anymore. I mainly game on Switch 2 and PC. And Steam is mostly where I game when on PC (or my Steam Deck).