What's so wrong about non-Steam DRM services?

No steam? Thanks I'll pass xD

I use them, and various consoles and handhelds. I play games, and don't care where I play them. Though my Desura collection is only about 150 games, my Origin account is about 20 and forget my nearly non existent uPlay account.

My biggest problem was GFWL eating my save if it changed online/offline and having activation limits and usually having more activation limits from securom. As long as there is no activation limit and there is a fully functional offline mode with saves that work whether you are on or offline, I don't care anymore. I used to hate Steam, but sales.

All hail Lord Gaben!!!

All the disadvantages of DRM and none of the perks of Steam. Some, not all, of them are atrocious.

I don't trust EA and Ubisoft as digital distributors. I actively use only steam and battle.net at present.

People on the internet love to complain about things. They will use any (and usually every) opportunity presented to them to do so.

For me (and I think for quite a few others it's like that too) it's simply that I don't want to have to install a bunch of software just to play a game. Back when Steam started it was quite meh too. Now things changed and I actually want to have stuff on Steam for various reasons. Now, I'm a big Battlefield fan. And I have to install Origin. It just sucks. It's yet another piece of software I have to keep on my computer. Yet another friend list. Another store. Same goes for UPlay. And then there is GFWL (luckily dead now) or Social Club...all this stuff is just too much. I can get companies want to do their own independent thing for some reason. But in the end...it's just really inconvenient for me. I don't even think about using Desura or Capsule or whatever else there is.

I like what Steam became, I like the idea of having all games on one account and not spread over other various services.

I've got nothing against the other services. I just like to keep all my games in one place.

For the most part, I have no issues with non-Steam DRMs. Having games on Steam is just nice for convenience.
I actually like Desura, and UPlay has some pretty neat stuff with achievements.

On the other hand, GFWL is awful. Glad to see it go. And Origin just doesn't seem to run that well for me and its store is cluttered with non-PC stuff.

That question is like "What is wrong with multiple kinds of cancer".
Steam was there first and has a lot of games and I like it because I don't need shitty DVDs to install my games. That's the only reason why I accept and somewhat like it. DRM is nothing I ever wanted, it's useless and will only affect paying customers. So why should I install multiple clients that do nothing better? For cheap keys? Well, I prefer to pay a few bucks more and don't infect my system with uPlay and other lousy done stuff.

Sometimes, if they're not as good, ppl will not play it at all.

However, the problem doesn't even only limited to a little quality gap.
Steam has offline mode and almost everygame that has single player mode are playable (if not all), but games on origin and uPlay have always online DRM. Using offline mode = unplayable.

Sometimes, I'll need to play some game to wait while I'm downloading things, or play some games while the connection is down. Steam is the better candidate in this case.

This and some other things also show (or hinted) that other retailers/platforms(or whatever they suppose to be called) are greedier than Steam.

That'll also cause many people to be less willing to use them. (Did you see how EA boast about how their "battlelog" got so many user despite the fact that you can't play the game without it and many people complained about it-_-.)

Also, I personally find that Steam is the safest one, and Origin is risky as hell... for now

Still, I prefer the physical copies above all these digital retailers. It can be more localized and means it can be cheaper. A lot cheaper... sometimes

TL:DR sorry, but from the first two sentences I can tell you that I agree with you. I myself use Origin for EA games, Uplay for ubisoft's, and Steam for general games. Why you ask? Simple - I encourage competition. I dont want to see steam becomes a monopoly (they pretty close to it though) because that will be our doom.

So basically all of you are either indifferent or extremely close minded. Should've expected this from the Stuck-Up Elitists that are PC Gamers. xD

I just love Steam and if I can choose I prefer it.

just because it's not Steam just limits your options
I've got over 300 steam games (plus console games), I think I have enough options for a while, thanks.

In a word: you said it in your title: DRM itself.

I only use Steam and GoG because I find it annoying to have my libraries spread all over the internet.

If you like having +10 client apps installed and running them every time you want to play a game then nothing I guess.
Same goes if you like having DRM Free exe installers scattered all over your hard drives.

Well, I don't.

I have nothing to complain about Origin, GOG, and Desura other than the fact that they AREN'T steam. It's just a lot easier to have one service for all of my games. uPlay on the other hand has had some pretty serious issues, but they're working to fix them, although it is a pain to launch it when I play Ubisoft games through steam.

currently installed: Steam, Uplay, Origin, Battle.net client, Desura.

help me.

Problem with any DRM is that it only affects people who actually pay for the game, not pirates ...scene groups crack the game before it's even going retail, and pirates can play the game with zero hassle.

There is nothing wrong with them per se. It's more that they offer little (or nothing) in the way of positives while often having more negatives or simply not justifying the additional hinderences to getting into your game.

In the case of Origin, you have the slippery-slope EULA and its attempt to assert itself over games that previously didn't require Origin. Desura has an interface that I find to be generally clumsy and awkward to navigate, though is otherwise pretty okay. uPlay I don't have much experience with, other than being another mandatory step even when launched through a different digital DRM (steam).

I find it's generally a lack of giving the consumer anything in return for putting up with the added little licks of frustration. Origin in particular is irksome that it's prices remain high, while having a small selection, bad EULA and some strange still-unpatched bugs, such as download files being scrubbed repeatedly for no reason while downloading, or in my case, deleting the parent directory when attempting to install it for the first time (I shit you not). Just lately Origin has been playing the catch-up game, trying to offer something for it's inconvenience with the short term refund if you simply don't like a game, which is good and all, but some kinds of negative can't be so simply overlooked. Just as Steam's typical automated support filters can't really be overlooked no matter how great the price range and selection is, y'know?

So yeah, there's nothing "wrong" with non-steam distribution platforms, but they tend to be clunky, intrusive, unnecessary and offer little in return, whereas Steam is more than a mere mandatory security measure, it's actually something that people try out willingly and with good reason. Steam is far more of a service than a DRM, now.

Steam.