No love for Desura?

Last time I heard, they were going bankrupt.
That probably has something to do with it.

Desure is not Steam, end of the story. Don't forget, you're dealing with a community that would pay 4-5 times more for a Steam Watch Dogs key than a uPlay one, even if they need to run uPlay AND Steam at the same time to play it. Usual reasons are:

• better keep everything at the same place
• Can show off game at friends.

Desura is dead, go home.

From what I can see Desura is mostly low budget indie games. That's perfectly fine, except that Steam has plenty of that too and Desura doesn't do much to differentiate itself from Steam.

Desura is broke to the point that they haven't been paying the dev's their share of the profit for months now. While the parent company is in court hashing out the bankruptcy, devs have been slowly switching to other platforms (Steam, itch.io, etc)

I'm perfectly happy with Desura. You can download your games from there client-free, for the most part. And folks just toss out their Desura keys like they were trash. Perfectly good games, all for cheap. Plus I can play some damn good stuff on Desura while waiting for Steam's greenlight service to stop scooting its asshole on the carpet. Seemed like it took forever for Cell HD: Emergence to get onto Steam, y'all.

I just use Steam to organize 'em, 'cause it's much easier that way. And it allows me to take and share screenshots.

I like Desura for trying out games (since you can get keys for very cheap or even free). If I enjoy them though, I'd try to get them on steam or gog, due to the fact Desura might go down any day.

I recently received an email from the dev of the game Alarameth TD saying that it was confirmed that the parent company of Desura (Bad Juju Inc.) had declared bankruptcy last week and most developers were pulling their games from Desura (he is graciously providing Steam keys to all owners of the game on Desura that he can reach). Luckily, more than half the games in my library were from bundle sites like IndieGala or ShinyLoot that provides DRM-free copies anyway, and the rest were freebies from Desura that may or may not have the DRM-free files still available. My advice: grab those files (and grab ALL of them whether you have Mac/Linux or not) ASAP and save to disk before the site goes down (Who knows when that will be...). If the files don't work, or there are no files to grab and you didn't purchase the games thru a different site, you may be SOL.

I always found the interface to be clunky and a bit awkward to navigate to where I really wanted to go, and sorting my games was a little confusing given it listed games not installed by desura (or within the desura folders). It wasn't BAD, it was just a bit awkward on top of heavily leaning towards indie titles and having a lot of terrible games ranked really highly. This, plus the fact it allows your comments to be downvoted to invisibility (preventing you from ever sharing a negative opinion on a game with unjustifiably high score, to warn others of inaccurate advertisement, etc) made it just never be of any use to me.

Desura's management are awful, horrible people.

http://www.desura.com/news/may-27th-update

After months of not paying some devs, they released this statement, note:

"Desura is not going out of business, we are not in financial crisis. We are moving forward and actively working toward partnerships and opportunities for growth."

Days later they filed for bankruptcy and have updated their statement since.

They fired at least one employees by twitter.

Most Desura games are the kind of crappy indie games people complain about when they get through Greenlight. Not all. I prefer my games in one place, or at least as few as possible. So I was glad to uninstall Desura for now.

I have battle net, i have origin, i have steam, i have desura, i have some drm free, i have who knows where else i got some games but never installed the client.

I have too much crap that is kind of hard to maintain control over all. On top of that, like half of the games you get in indie bundles have keys for both steam and desura, duplicating the games on the clients. And although i dont really dislike indies, they are neither my priority on the backlog.

I dont know how many games you have but its a lot of mess with so many different clients that have some dup games that you are never going to play.

Desura filed for bankruptcy and completely stopped paying the developers with games on there for months. They also had a community manager doing damage control and who was pulling overtime ~80 hours that week and fired her via twitter. I'm glad she got hired by groupees afterwards. My hate for Desura is my perception of them from their actions.

My main game is on steam (CS:GO), its from the company who owns Steam, so I don't see any other reason to have other platform.

I only wish companies like Blizzard and EA would put their games in Steam. Steam will last for a long, long time. It will be way too hard for any other company try to take Steam's place.

I would love to have Diablo 3 and FIFA badges and achievements.

Steam have many more games, have a better platform, many more features, etc.

If there is a Steam sale and a Origin sale at the same moment, and I want to spend $10, even if Origin have a game I want more, I would spend it on Steam.

While I like some of the concepts. the idea of a Dodo sounds and looks good but that is part of the reason they went extinct. The competitors are too strong and the Dodo is too weak, expect it to be eaten by much stronger predators.

No good games. You're better off with origin or any other client

I like Desura for its modbase.

I like(d) Desura for it's DRM free stuff, that GOG doesn't provide or never reached Steam. It had a place next to GOG and Steam.
Also alot of Desura games eventually gave Steam keys, and most devs were nice about it if it didn't give out keys straight away and you asked them personally about it.
I have downloaded everything from Desura (which is alot, about 1100 games (400 free) because of the pending bankruptcy, then i went back a second time to add screenshots (to know what game it is) and doublecheck. Now i am going through them a third time to rename them all properly.

Their client however was just very slow and bad.

I think they will go down eventually with noone to take over, so better just get anything you can while you still can.

Maybe some will say it just had alot of crappy indie games, but i don't find that to be true, alot of indie games had very good review scores and were decent games (and alot eventually did came to steam).

Isn't desura being shut down in few months? I think I heard some news that they will close it.