Steam Alternatives?

What are the best alternatives to Steam for buying and downloading games? I'm becoming less and less interested in supporting their shitty platform.

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Why ask if you know the right answer?

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Can't play online if you're a pirate.

Nobody cares about your shitty thread faggot.

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You can, the good ones.

You're doing it wrong

Reminder that if only you do is pirate shit, you're irrelevant and don't matter for the industry.
You have no right to cry about its state whatsoever.

If you buy games then nothing is going to change because you're supporting the current state of the industry. Guess that didn't occur to your pea brain.

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Kill yourself. Use whatever store sells the game you want for the lowest price possible. Why must you niggers always choose ONE SPECIFIC store as a "replacement"? Are you fucking autistic? Have you niggers learned nothing? No matter what you do, no matter which option you choose, people will insist that you're using the wrong store and call you an idiot. Then you will once again change to a new one, only to be called a retard yet again.
Nothing we can do about it. You either pirate games and don't play multiplayer or you never play new games for the next decade until a huge fucking miracle happens and the industry gets crashed and then revived with good titles and stores that don't shit on your rights.

Stop being a fucking dipshit that restricts himself on what he can play or not just so some autismo group of people doesn't call him words.

Spoiler: I'm happy with the current state of industry.

You really shouldn't trust Steam though. Buying the lowest-priced games is one thing but it means nothing if you lose your library or can't trade in those games anymore. I was just community banned the FIRST time ever and it's for 13 weeks, because I hurt someones feefee's over text. The moderation is absolute garbage and your games are ALWAYS ON THE LINE OF BEING LOST if you say one wrong thing. It's like living in the fucking USSR. When it comes to rights Steam takes the biggest shit on them by far.

Nah. Instead of caring about gaming industry we should enlarge pirating community so we can easily replace things like emuparadise or underground gaming. I might say its the reverse. If you don't pirate you are irrelevant to pirating community and must not hope to get shit games cracked. We need all support we have right now. West is pozzed and jewed in all senses. And falling to your knees to slavic or japanese industries is not going to save you, sooner or later those will be affected too, if not already (CDPoopRed, Crapcom, Cucknami).

Any game that relies on dlc crap is trash, any game that relies on people paying more than base product is trash, any game containing leftist propaganda is trash, any unfinished buggy game you paying to beta test is trash. Jewish run corporations use you, fuck you in the ass, and you even pay money for it. You aren't relevant if you accept it.

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How dare someone want compensation for the time and effort put into a product for their consumers to enjoy?

Communism is clearly the superior societal structure!

I am sick of fucking niggers and their muh gibs me dat with their piracy shit.
>never occurs to them they can just not play it.

I think modern music and movies are shit (mainly because of Jews), but I don't pirate music and movies because I'm not a nigger with a lack of self-control. I'm a white person who has enough agency to say "I will not support this current system, but I will not steal from it like some subhuman coon".

There are some games that are online only, or the best part about them is online.
Back to the Xbox, kiddo.

It's not about the Holla Forums group-think you dumbfuck. Anyone with at least some tech knowledge and a desire for privacy knows DRM and any platform that not only supports it but demands it is bad.
I personally don't give a fuck if you pre-order CoD on Steam or something like that, it's a drop in the goddamn ocean. All I ask is that you be aware of what you're doing.

Typical tricks, schlomo.

Oh my fucking god.

Are you implying Jews are the ones most likely to pay for their music and movies?
Jews?
Paying when there's a free option?

Sorry, but pirating is on par with bix noods who can't afford this weeks crack stash and kikes who want to save a couple shekels even though they make 150k a year for selling baby foreskins to cosmetic companies.

I didn't even mention windows in my post, what are you on about?

GOG is good, but be aware that some of the games there are crippled because developers give less attention to GOG than Steam. I also like the Humble Bundle store when a game is DRM-free. Unlike Steam those are just stores and you don't have to commit to any particular service, just buy the shit you want and leave.


Then simply buy the games that are good and made by customer-respecting developers. Both of them.

Jews are highest anti-piracy shills because they need their lying and scumming corporations to sell you virtual goods. They would support other fellow jews since every one of them holds some share on such corporations. They would eventually condemn you for pirating air.

The real stealing here is not done by pirates.
Its done by corporations.

Now tell me what you actually use.

Good point. Didn't think of that. My mind was stuck in the delusional days of when video games were made and owned by mostly white men.

I fully condone stealing from Jews.
I still think vehement pro-piracyfags are annoying.

Windows 10, obviously.

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When was anything not better when it was made and owned by mostly white men?

I'm sorry, are you implying you don't like best OS?

I think American (white) made electronics were always shit if I'm really reaching. Nips are god-tier with their fancy TVs and game consoles.

But the people who made the game already got paid, you're only giving money to the publisher who didn't do shit

BOY, I SUERE DO WANNA PLAY ONLINE ONLY CLASSICS LIKE THESE!!

Online games are trash and the only fucking ==NIGGERS== who like them are low t faggots so desperate for cock they'll go as far as to snort the shit out of spiro and t blockers destroying their hormonal receptors all so they can get themselves that fat greasy Gatorade chugging gaymer boyfriend so adverse to hygiene his fucking bathroom is more cleaner than him.

lololololol

GMG is managed by feminazis apparently.

Linux>Windows XP=Windows 7>Windows 8.1 with Classic Shell>>>>>>every other OS

and if you use Windows don't talk about privacy you're already compromised

It's just shitposting. Use ubuntu or wine, dual-boot and disable telemetry if you love windows that much

destroy your computer with a baseball bat, fam

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I sincerely hope you're shitposting nigger.

good job, they bit it.

you have 1 minute to explain what's wrong with Overwatch

Balance is shit, content is poor, level design is ass, I am an OW player and even I can admit that much.

it's just TF2 with heavily focus tested characters.

TF2 was never a good game.

First person games are only fun when every gun you have makes you feel overpowered.
(EG: doom, doom 2)

Be a (((space))) pirate

damnnn u'd be right if u were talking about the first week of release lol

games been fixed now my dude…OW is great

No fucking shit, tell me something new. But what the hell do you expect us to do about it? Stop playing video games forever? You think they give a shit whether players like us are going to buy vidya? All they care about is normalfaggotry. That's their main source of income.
Me, and neither does anyone else in this board ever pre-order games. No one here is autistic enough for that.

Avoiding Steam and other DRM cancer will not save vidya, nor does it have an impact on their sales and fame. Until this fucking industry gets nuked, we'll never have rights over "our" games. Not playing games anymore isn't an option.

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That's completely false, MMR is a joke, SR is stupid, level design is still the same and still shit, and content boils down to 3 new characters PER YEAR at most, tons of stupid loot box content that is not even permanent, you are delusional, just because they haven't nerfed your hero it doesn't mean the game is not just playable.

Anime was cucked with crazy censorship for decades now, games only started to catch up.

After the cost of marketing and the funding that went into the project is cleared, most publishers only take about 10-20% of the profits while the rest goes to the studio that actually produced the game. Marketing on its own is expensive as hell, nevermind the amount that they give the studios to produce the games themselves.

The only people that walk away with money in their pockets with no further involvement in a project are the people that were contracted to work on it, and thus compensated accordingly after their work was complete.

Yes. I haven't bought a Steam game since that one time I was curious and got sucked into buying Portal. I don't even pirate DRMed games, they just aren't worth my time. For fuck's sake, I don't even use Windows, if it doesn't run in Wine it's not worth my time.

not saying OW is the greatest game ever but there's really nothing better out right

Pirate or Buy Launchbox.

now*

If you think there's really nothing better out right now, I don't think you ever had a concept of what was ever good.

TF2? CS:GO? Paladins? keklmao. all inferior games.

alright guys I'm going to go play and finish the LAST game I ever bought from Steam and will never buy from them again

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair if anyone is wondering… r8 my purchase

Go over to the developer website and order or download directly. This is the case for 99% of the free & open source games out there. You get every right to use and distribute GPL games, and if its an online game, nearly none of them will have the modern gimmicks of lootboxes, and skins. Most of them will have extensive tools to mod the game, even from source or level editors.

Sounds nice… any examples/recommendations?

Xonotic
The extra multiplayer features on top of the game you get
and probably some others I'm forgetting.

WEW

these threads are worse than console threads.

yet you're too autistic to stay out of either of them. just kill yourself you platform warrior faggot.

pirate the game and send them 10 dollars

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I said I would do what ever to play the game, eother being steam, gog, piracy, or console.

Unless you're running Core/Trannyboot on an old Chinkpad, you're compromised regardless.

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use AMD not Jewintel and you're fine.

Nope, not even then

libreboot.org/faq.html#amdpsp

Breddy Gud Bait

The servers. 60tick is not enough.

I could deal with the shitty balance patches that take months to come out but the tick is unforgivable.

>Throwing away your hard earned money to support the (((devs)))

Kill yourself, Jet Li.

Piracy + Cloud storage for save backups.
Boom. Better than steam.

kill urself famalam

The Item System was perfect and literally everyone saying there is a problem with the side grades, is and always has and will be wrong and to extension, literally any solution provided from them is inherently wrong.
Yes, this also includes retards who play 6s and Vanilla servers.
Or people who cry about getting stunned by the sandman.

This is supposed to be a bad thing?
If you want friends, GO OUTSIDE.

There aren't even any games worth pirating.

No son, you are trash
Like clockwork

Only if you you're a shit taste pleb

I really can't think of many if any that are must plays.

I just can't have any fun with video games anymore.

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Playing Xanadu Next and Endless Space 2 right now.
Having a blast
Thingen of getting Shadow Tactics and Sundered when it comes out.

Do you know the inner workings of your bank with open source granularity? No? Botnet. Don't use banks.

Do you know 100% that that person isn't an alien? Better shoot him just in case.

Do you know 100% if the person who sat on the toilet seat before you had buttcheek AIDS? Better not sit there.

Desura and itch.io, the latter being a platform for tumblr stuff.

Thats just not true at all, and Vasura Desura is dead

aids doesn't work like that

That's the point I was making earlier. There's no point in making the argument that Linux is the only OS not compromised because all current hardware is compromised. At least use something that can play 100% of your game library without strain.

If you give that much of a shit about being compromised, you might as well give up games now.

IGG

Lurk for two years before posting.

How about stop playing vidya all together. Maybe buy a gym membership and get ripped instead?

YOU FUCKING CUNT, GIVE ME BACK CUPHEAD!

Pirate the game or find means of downloading it for free. If you want to support actual devs, find out if they have a paypal/patreon/email and send them money. I have done this before, its a great feeling. Steam, GOG, GMG or whatever is always the last resort. It's really not that complicated.

you could always support your favorite retailers like best buy and buy physical

Wait, what? For real?

Is it really hard to look up shit by yourselves?
store.steampowered.com/app/268910/Cuphead/

is there more porn of the mermaid yet?

Something that you agreed not to do in the user agreement, you fucking retard. It's real simple, don't use the community. There's nothing of value there, and if you think that the bullshit that flies around on a chan board flies on a platform that negotiates money for video games, then you're as fucking stupid as they come. That would mean jeopardizing their relationships with any given paying customer by allowing them to be harassed off of the platform.

Screw your head on straight, it's real unfortunate that your parents weren't fit to raise a human being with a functioning brain cell.


Steam was a godsend as far as DRM goes. Before Steam there was horrendous DRM that was bricking and leaving computers and hardware unusable, rootkits, activation sets, then there was the risk of having your game keys stolen by other people. Steam gave developers the confidence to trust in their DRM-lite interface, if you think having a 200mb program open is unforgivable DRM, then you should go buy a copy of the original BioShock Retail. See if you like what it does with your system.

GOG, despite Holla Forums's opinion otherwise, is NOT an alternative or a replacement for Steam. And even GOG is beginning to integrate GOG Galaxy into their releases, some of their games REQUIRE their own third-party DRM platform to be installed to play. Like it or not, DRM-lite is a better solution than the DRM we used to deal with 10 years ago. Get fucked.

its easy to forget about stuff like that sometimes