Do you even play games on STEAM anymore?

I still rely on Steam for most of my PC gaming. Other than that: consoles for AAAs my PC can't handle, GOG for older exclusives/during good sales.

The only store I'll actively prioritize using over Steam is Itch. They're the only ones that let developers choose how much of a cut they take, the people behind the site seem like good folks, and the personalized developer and game pages are rad. It also has tons of weird little games you can't find anywhere else.

I just checked and I've got 123 games attached to my Itch account. Which still can't compare to 332 games on Steam, but it's much closer than the handful of games I buy elsewhere.

I have no idea from where you are "getting" you information from. There is more false than right.
GOG gifts maybe 2-3 games per year, rarely something spectacular.
Epic's free games program is supposed to end with the year 2019.
Uplay gives maybe one game per year and I can't even remember when EA gave away something the last time. If both gifted games monthly, we'd pretty much own their complete library by now.

With HB announcing that it would give more games on other platforms then STEAM.

I'm calling utter bollocks on this one. HB announced that they will include more and better games in their Choice, they didn't share any information regarding platforms and certainly didn't they announce that games on Steam would be in the minority.

Summed up: You have no real idea what you are talking about.

ea just announced they're moving back to steam, so there wont really be any more origin exclusives. EPIC wont even open on my computer. just get stuck after I enter my password, which I know is right because I can log in on foxfire, so I cant play any EPIC games. Free games with iap usually dont interest me because honestly, most of them are p2w garbage(NOT all). didnt origin and uplay both stop giving free games like a year ago?

I used to split my time between all the platforms (I have no issues with there being multiple launchers/storefronts), with most of my time being spent between Steam and GOG. GOG is doing everything right, IMO, and I would buy there when I could, even with some of the frictions of that in mind (less frequent updates, occasionally less features in the games, etc.).

But then Valve released Proton, which allows me to play many Windows games flawlessly on Linux, so I threw my eggs entirely in their basket. They're the only platform with strong Linux support, and Proton is downright amazing (probably 60% of the games I've tested work flawlessly). Proton enabled me to finally shift to running Linux full time, so at this point Steam is really the only platform I'll consider using unless others get Linux clients up to speed (please GOG, PLEASE!!!). I use Lutris and GameHub for some stuff I have on other platforms, but, honestly, I've also just been rebuying some of my games from other platforms on Steam when they go on steep discount. The frictionless experience of Steam makes that worth it for me.

I'd rather play ME trilogy again, then all the STEAM games I own! ;)

If you don't intend to play on Steam, why did you participate to 49,241 giveaways ? What about the 164 games you won ? Other people would have been happy to get them..

I keep hoarding freebies on EGS, but yet to play them. Steam and Uplay (for R6 Siege) my only launchers that i use on PC for gaming

Here's what I don't understand: You recently made a thread to attack people with bad ratios, yet here you are admitting to never playing your steam games. It's like "Hurr Durr... I like to win games here, but screw you, I will probably never play them.... but it's okay, I give stuff too." So why? Why bother buying Steam games or bundles at all if you never play them? Do you have a need to hoard/collect or something?

Then there was a thread from another guy, who had won a few games on here, but hadn't the ability to really give stuff away, but he played every single game that he won. He actually appreciated what he got. That's a good user, someone who actually wants the games that he wins.

I know which one got added to my whitelist.

I just don't get why you are making contradictory threads like this. You do yourself no favours with this kind of thing.

EDIT: As for the thread topic. I play most of my games on Steam. I do have a few on GOG, also have a couple other DRM-free stuff that I play offline at times. The EPIC games I collect every week, but haven't played yet, but there are a few that I most definitely will play. The truth is that some of them are windows only while they have a mac version on Steam. Steam has way more variety for people who aren't playing on a Windows machine.

I play almost exclusively on Steam. It's just the most convenient gaming platform for me, I have no need or desire to use other launchers (though I do have an acc on GoG and UPlay).

While GOG is my "primary" platform, I try hard to focus my gametime on my SG wins. And, seeing as how those are all Steam games, I play almost exclusively on Steam.

Voted for steam but I have other games on other platforms. In the end is not a thing about steam, every other dev is trying to make their way on the platform "wars"¿? On blizz I play overwatch, mostly... I have D3 but abandoned. Epic I have the free ones and started Surviving mars. Uplay still playing AC origins. I have games too on Gog but only playing Project warlock. Oh on bethesda I have youngblood, ended with a friend, was fun... Still installed just for next doom. But I have to end Rage 2, fun game too, but first one had better post apocaliptic ambient imo

Steam is not an abbreviation, it should be capitalised but otherwise it's on lowercase. No need for clickbaity uppercase mumbo-jumbo ;)

what is ARC ???
at the moment i play my free month on XBOX PC-pass. Most times i´m playing on steam but if i have a good game on epic or uplay (WatchDogs2, Far Cry Prim..) i play it there - why not

I play mostly in Steam, and sometimes on Origin. My husband mostly uses my Gog account. He isn't a big gamer, but he loves a bunch of old games that I happen to have on Gog.

Only steam. I have a huge backlog and epic not increasing that backlog as they giving away bundled games I already have on steam so no point to get them.

My HB monthly will expire in 2 months, my backlog is so huge that I better stop buying bundles and I'll do so. The era of bundles ended now anyway, it is clear that the gaming industry will change and we heading towards a subscription type gaming experience.

I play on Steam. No reason to go somewhere else since while other places have good games too, I have too many good stuff on Steam already.

There are games which are better without Steam - the MMOs, the Witcher series etc. -, and since I usually play those... I definitely don't use Steam too much.

I don't play that much lately (because of lots of stuff I have to do) but when I do it's either on Steam or Apex with friends (which is on Origin).
I played about 3.2h on Steam in the last two weeks and I played Apex 2 times last week, had my bachelors exam last week and now I have to finish a short film until Sunday.

I have accounts on most of the current clients (Origin, GOG, Uplay, Battle.net, EGS) yet I mostly play games on Steam, the fact that all of the other accounts don't add up to even a tenth of my library with Steam dominating with over 3k games owned being the main reason why.

Every day, steam is pretty much only program that runs 24/7, like it is just there in background even when I am not playing, it feels part of pc.

"much better games - like Mass Effect 3 & Andromeda, for example."
First... as a Mass Effect fan i feel ashamed to hear another fan says such blasphemy... but still, that is your opinion and sadly i must accept it :/

Second, to answer the post title, i play most of my games on Steam, sometimes i play fortnite (story mode only, i never liked the battle royal mode) on Epic, Battle.net (SC2/Overwatch) or GOG just to remind my childhood (now i want to play "crusader: no regret" again...). For me steam was always the most friendly gaming plataform and a nice virtual home to meet others players, i can`t find that same friendly appeal in the others plataforms.

P.D: Sorry my english, little rusty.