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[Palliasso]

Anyone who says Rockstar Social Club gets immediately banned

j/k

 

[Sojiro]

Voted Gog, although Bnet would be behind that as it has always been pretty solid. EGS is probably in the same boat, but while I have it I barely use it for anything aside for a very rare game or two of Fortnite with my son. EA is finally in an alright spot from what I remember when I last used it (especially compared to what it used to be like) and Uplay exists lol. I have never used Game Pass so I have no opinion on it.

 

[Warnen]

 

[Antwix]

Bnet has never let me down. Never had a bug or anything weird happen. Even though it's just a diablo/wc/sc launcher, it has always worked perfectly for me.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Rockstar Social Club.

No, really. I love the fact that I can't play any of my Rockstar games on Steam because I have long lost access to the email linking them to my Steam account, so I can't verify that its me trying log in.

I just love Rockstar Social Club.

/S

 

[hououinkyouma00]

None. I don't use any other launcher besides Steam. Battlefield opens the EA app but I've never once touch it myself.

If I had to use something it would be GoG.

 

[Perrott]

Am I really the only one who voted for the EA App? Wow, that's crazy.

 

[LakeOf9]

Anyone who says Rockstar Social Club gets immediately banned

j/k

I almost added it as an option

 

[Stuart360]

Probably Ubisoft Connect. Mainly because i play a lot of Ubisoft games. And i'd also say that Connect (along with the EA App) probably has the fastest download speed of all the launchers.

I dont know whats happened to Steam over the last 2 or 3 years (maybe its constant growth i suppose) but the download speed on Steam is coinsiderably worse than its used to be.

Steam is still my fave launcher overall though but still.

 

[Hohenheim]

For my "console-PC" that's connected to the TV in the living room, Playnite is the obvious choice.

For my main desktop PC, I use the launchers as they are. Have no issues with any of them, but I use Steam most of the time.

 

[Fess]

None. Not even GoG.
I'm so tired of having to use one launcher per major publisher.
Unless it's a game I really want to play, I just avoid games that are not on Steam.

Xbox App for Gamepass.
Epic for free games.
GOG for oldschool games.
Steam for everything else.

That's how I do it.

And on the couch PC I use Steam big picture mode as the UI and add games from the other launchers manually. Not perfect, can't see play time or achievements, but otherwise it's great.

 

[Fess]

For my "console-PC" that's connected to the TV in the living room, Playnite is the obvious choice.

I tried Playnite but didn't like the UI. There was something about it that made it feel janky and some odd button input choices.
But that was awhile ago, might've been improved or maybe you can tweak things.

I returned to Steam and manually add games there and use big picture mode instead. I boot it into that. 5 seconds of Windows desktop is all I see when powering up the PC. Works great tbh!

Microsoft needs to up their game in that space. I have no issues using Xbox App on the desktop PC but it's no option in the living room.
Why aren't they using the 360 blades dash or something for a living room setup? Would be awesome.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Steam > GoG > BNet > EGS > UPlay > stepping on a lego > Xbox app > EA desktop

I've come to appreciate BNet and even EGS for not trying to do too much and keeping it pretty simple. EA and Xbox are dumpster fires.

Although I may use Heroic Launcher more than anything other than Steam and it's a godsend.

 

[phant0m]

Battle.net: it's not heavy or intrusive, doesn't do weird shit with files (like Xbox) and generally just works

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Galaxy, by far because... I like buying stuff on GOG for the lack of DRM, and I'm not required to use it if I don't want to.

It's also a clean interface and I like the box art display for all my games.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Gog, best part is I can play it's games still after turning it off.

 

[kevboard]

funnily enough the Xbox launcher.
I don't really count GoG here as GoG Galaxy is entirely optional and I don't use it.

the Xbox launcher has multiple benefits that neither EA, Ubisoft, Epic or Battle.Net have. the biggest of which being family sharing.
I refuse to buy any game on PC that can not be used by multiple users on the same fucking PC... and sadly literally all launchers except Steam and Xbox lock you from sharing the same game on the same PC with other users.

so Xbox is clearly the best non-Steam launcher to me... and GoG is great precisely because you do not need a launcher in the first place.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Battle.net: it's not heavy or intrusive, doesn't do weird shit with files (like Xbox) and generally just works

I really wish they would dump their terrible Xbox app and just use BNet. I would probably resub to gamepass.

 

[poodaddy]

Anyone who says Rockstar Social Club gets immediately banned

I'm being completely serious right now.

I fixed it for ya boss, no worries

 

[Hohenheim]

I tried Playnite but didn't like the UI. There was something about it that made it feel janky and some odd button input choices.
But that was awhile ago, might've been improved or maybe you can tweak things.

I returned to Steam and manually add games there and use big picture mode instead. I boot it into that. 5 seconds of Windows desktop is all I see when powering up the PC. Works great tbh!

Microsoft needs to up their game in that space. I have no issues using Xbox App on the desktop PC but it's no option in the living room.
Why aren't they using the 360 blades dash or something for a living room setup? Would be awesome.

Xbox have some work to do on their app for sure, but it's easy to use it with only a controller on a "console" PC these days. Just open the game bar and open the app from there, and its easily controlled with a game pad.

 

[phant0m]

I really wish they would dump their terrible Xbox app and just use BNet. I would probably resub to gamepass.

Don't threaten me with a good time

 

[Durin]

Heroic Launcher for sure. It not only replaces the 3 launchers and their storefronts that get free games - but it also adds them automatically to Steam, so you only need to use it to install or update the games. And it has a nice easy to use interface.

Yeah, forgot to mention the automatic add to Steam, which I think was intially made to work with Steam Deck's game mode frontend UI.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Saw Ea "origin" in the past, battlefield 3 running on it was pretty good because it was web browser based.