Naturally, all enterprising and cultured anons favor share threads and >>>/scurv/ for their vidya acquisition needs, but even the best of us feel the occasional forbidden urge to go slumming with the plebs or to be good goys. So, when it's time to hand over shekels, who's got the best/worst rap sheets?
Steam, obviously, is the most well-known of the bunch. Huge market share, miserable customer service, sales that are a pale shadow of their former selves, but Gaben's greed ensures that they generally remain a one-trick pony when it comes to fucking customers over–the Activision of online retailers, if you will.
Except for the actual Activision of online retailers, that being Battle.net or whatever Blizzard is calling its thing these days. Weak sales, games with fantastic production values and a focus-testing group bigger than the actual playerbase, all of the political bullshit that they can physically fit into current-gen social media, and the fact that they literally don't sell any games outside of Blizzard whale-milkers and Destiny 2.
Ubisoft has Uplay, which works about as often as you'd expect from a bunch of French socialists surviving entirely on the involuntary generosity of international taxpayers. Also they've been making a reskin of the same game for over a decade now.
EA has Origin, which has toned down some of the more ridiculous bullshit from its launch and still seemingly exists only to wallow in the failure of the company's hubris, but every time you see it, you can't help but remember how many beloved franchises and developers EA destroyed before senility turned them into a crippled, flatulent husk of their former evil.
GOG is a couple of former Soviets embracing capitalism by charging you for repacks whose licenses they lawyered on the cheap, as well as the occasional console game cleverly disguised as a marquee PC title. But hey, at least most of their stuff is DRM-free.
Humble Bundle is a business model born and bred of virtue signalling whose sole virtues are the fact that they occasionally carry DRM-free versions of certain games and that, if you buy an actual bundle, you can mess around with the price sliders to display your contempt accordingly.
And then there's the periphery of weebshit retailers out there–DLsite, Nutaku, Mangagamer and what have you. I have no idea how many of them engage in censorship, price-gouging, forbidden shekelmancy, or other such arts. Who's shit? Who's mildly-less-shit? Anybody out there actually still trying to make an honest buck?