Where, Other than steam to play

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Hi all

As title says, Where can I Buy/Play games other than Steam?

The reason I ask is because its not letting me access Steam as the server is down, My old man had the same issue over the past few weeks.

Thanks:)
 
Steam is (and had been) fine for me this week, do you and your Dad share the same broadband? Have you tried re-installing steam? Can you log into your account from a browser?

There are several other publisher platforms.
Origin - EA games (You can get temporary access to quite a lot of their games for £20 a year sub)
Uplay - Ubisoft games
Rockstar social - GTA games etc.
 
HazardO said:
Steam is (and had been) fine for me this week, do you and your Dad share the same broadband? Have you tried re-installing steam? Can you log into your account from a browser?

There are several other publisher platforms.
Origin - EA games (You can get temporary access to quite a lot of their games for £20 a year sub)
Uplay - Ubisoft games
Rockstar social - GTA games etc.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, No I live away from my parents, He just messaged me the other day saying he had issues with Steam... I shall Re-install now
 
Steam had a issue Wednesday / Thursday where certain people couldn't log in, that might have been what was effecting him.

Others are:

Uplay,
Origin,
GOG.
 
I'm surprised at how Uplay has come along. It's really quite a pleasant platform to use now. Fast download speeds as well.
 
So here's a follow up question, are we close to giving Steam an unhealthy monopoly over PC gaming with disproportionate control of publishers, prices, availability and distribution?
 
Macro said:
So here's a follow up question, are we close to giving Steam an unhealthy monopoly over PC gaming with disproportionate control of publishers, prices, availability and distribution?
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Probably. Which is why I also use GOG. I also have a few games on Origin and uPlay but hardly ever bother installing them on my PC. I have 244 games on Steam and that is where the vast majority of the games I enjoy playing are kept. GOG does have an excellent catalogue of old single player games though so I find myself buying them on GOG. I might even start a play through of Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 on it again.
 
Macro said:
So here's a follow up question, are we close to giving Steam an unhealthy monopoly over PC gaming with disproportionate control of publishers, prices, availability and distribution?
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I'd have thought that Steam was already there. However, on the plus side I have a little more faith Steam won't go belly up and cut off access to all my games due to their evil empire.
 
Steam definitely has the monopoly.
Worse, it's the one that devs think of running to with reasons like "Why should I release on gog/humble, when you can just buy it on steam?" Saw this once a while back.

Alas, it's easy for devs due to servers/client etc.

I had two copies of ARMAII which I used for DayZ mod & other things. When gamespy(?) died, it got shifted to steam. Now I only own one copy :/
 
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