PC games without steam?

[Murgilod]

@SirXanthor

Call me old fashioned but if a game has steams name on it I dont buy it. They may have a huge client base, but they are as disliked like Radioshack due to their bad reputation and look what happened to Radioshack? Steam is so hated that steam has gone a step further and sell full box games without the box mentioning their name at all then the person opens the game and finds
the dvd to not be a game at all but a steam installer. My bank fully refunded me for 5 games when they saw this. If people go out of their way to buy a box game, unless its a mmorpg, we want the game full and no third party log in.

Steam isn’t “as disliked as Radioshack” at all. If anything, Steam’s reputation is overall positive.

[the_motionblur]

@thegamer1234

Can you publish games on PC without steam?

As most others already mentioned - yes.

The thing I find much more interesting/sad is that we apparently have now passed the point where Steam isn’t thought of as the default plattform. When I started PC gaming CD-ROM was rather new. There still were a few games on floppy discs. Basically this could still be done today. And I think there might even still be a few games on the shelves in retail stores which do not need any DRM system. But it shows the shift in thinking. It’s interesting to hear.

I also fear the day when the first batch of Operating Systems on desktop plattforms tries to close down so far that you cannot publish an application just like that any more. When this happens and people don’t react to it we as customers are in deep shit, IMO.

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[JamesArndt]

Don’t forget that GoG is also a pretty popular distribution platform.

[Martin_H]

@JamesArndt1

Don’t forget that GoG is also a pretty popular distribution platform.

Also they don’t seem to accept 90+% of what devs would want to release on steam, because they actively curate and don’t want their plattform flooded with crap.

[QFSW]

Thats a good thing. If you’re serious about making good games that is

[Ryiah]

@the_motionblur

I also fear the day when the first batch of Operating Systems on desktop plattforms tries to close down so far that you cannot publish an application just like that any more. When this happens and people don’t react to it we as customers are in deep S***, IMO.

We’ll always have Linux though.

[tiggus]

I think some games definitely benefit from their own site. Still very prevalent in MMORPG space, look at something like Runescape. They can monetize without that 30% cut, just have to be willing to build up the popularity which can take years/decades.