I don't even as to what how when who, with the huh what when where?

This.

So once you become top dog you can never, ever be rivaled again? Sounds like a monopoly to me.

Because once you're top dog, you stay on top forever.
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+1

+1 Gaben4Life

Was thinking the same when I saw this. This would need full cooperation of Electronic Farts, You-be-soft, and Steam, and full integration with their API's. We'll see, though, and can always hope, right?!

You can play some games on Origin with Steam users, like Crysis 2 I think, but Origin bans you if you do that.

edit: nobody bans, I was mistaken.

A lot of steam games are just normal PC releases and don't rely on steam for any multiplayer functionality. If a game is available outside of steam then chances are its multiplayer is "multiplatform"

downloader, autoupdater, chat/friends stuff, but u dont need it to launch installed games

Even with the DRM functionality of Steam stripped, it still offers many useful features. An in-client store, wallet, full transaction support, a community, groups, chat and all that, an organised library with games that have an auto-patching service so you're always running up-to-date, and Big Picture mode. This new platform could offer similar features; perhaps more new ones, too.

Depends on the game itself really. But for the most part, you still need to turn Steam on (whether you are actually online or not) and then set it to offline mode.

After a week, it'll turn into pumpkin... You have to be online again even for a second. But sometimes it's difficult to find an internet connection even for a split second (i experienced this because of my shitty dormitory some time ago).

It has happened to me that im internetless and by some weird reason Steam wont open at all.

Cant update, cant find a way to fix it, cant play.

DRM-free helps a lot.

That might be Origin's reason, because they're trying desperately to build up their consumer base, but Steam isn't giving away free games because of this so-called competition. Steam doesn't even have a say in which games to give away besides their own, and these devs definitely don't care about what Origin is up to. These giveaways are usually meant to promote an upcoming sequel or something. Ie. Sniper Elite v2 was given away recently to promote Sniper Elite 3. Honestly, I doubt Origin is even a blip on Valve's radar right now. It's sites like Amazon and GMG who are the actual, healthy competition to them.

That said, good luck to GOG. Unlike EA, and much like Valve, they've actually earned the trust of their customers over the years and I have no problems supporting it along with Steam.

Finally an extra client I want to install.

Not all steam games have DRM :)

You mean like Desura?

That being said, I'd be all over a GOG platform. Their downloader is quite friendly.

More like "We priced our game $15.98 higher on your region, but don't worry you can buy $15.98 worth of other games (you wouldn't otherwise buy) totally FREE, it not like you're paying for them" :P

Since it's DRM free it can never be revoked.

Whoo, that was me. Yeah, real nice of them to eat the difference on the regional pricing. I think they said they'll do it with other games if the publisher's insist on using regional pricing.

It's definitely one thing that draws me to GOG, being in the UK we do get some things slightly unfair over here (not as bad as Australia at least)

That was just part of the knee jerk reaction to them adding the regional pricing in the first place. Then they had their back to their roots promotions and said they will try to offer credit on games above 9.99.. instead of doing the GMG regional coupon to bring a game down to costs of other regions. Pile on the annoying wallet credit.

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"This will apply to every single game where we do not have flat pricing, such as Age of Wonders 3 (full details here), Divinity: Original Sin, and The Witcher 3. If you remember the Fair Price Package for The Witcher 2, this will be exactly the same."

currently they have no client program bullshit. but people keep asking for it for some baffling reason so apparently now they'll have one like desura so the crazy people can have their steam experience. "oh no i can't open a browser to use a store, help me by putting it in my game for me all the time just in case I ever want to buy something" then how did they even post the suggestion in the first place, did they have help?

granted desura (and i assume gog will be) is worlds better than their alternatives but... i mean really? why? what could a pointless shell client possibly add?

(you can probably tell...im not a fan of the clients the last thing we need is the consolization pc gaming

Origin also offers a money back guarantee and in fact offered it before GOG did. Origin and GOG are the only companies to really explain a money back policy. Only thing Steam lets you do is cancel pre-orders.

+1 for the latter. +100000000000000 for the latter actually. But it seems virtually the whole Steam community isn't enough for Gabe to spare a briefcase full of cash on improving Steam support.