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Really though... other than perhaps Blizzard... is there any secondary store worth looking into?

Outside of Windows/Android/iStore... There's nothing worth switching.

I've passed up on purchasing games (IE: Mass Effect 3) because it's tied to a shitty NotSteam...

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It's not avoiding Steam, because plenty of games there are given as Steam keys, but I have a $12/mo Humble Monthly subscription. It's literally more games than I could ever play, but there are some really good gems every month. They also have the "Trove", which is a bunch of DRM-free downloads that cycle in and out over time.

I also use GOG when the GOG-tuned Dosbox version of a game is better than the Steam one. I don't use their downloader app.

Blizzard's client is pretty but has its own drawbacks. I uninstalled it recently after it tabbed me out of a competitive match with a UAC prompt to update itself. The Bnet forums are full of people complaining about that particular issue.

Just Gog. I find it interesting that it's basically killed a lot of the old abandonware rings that were out there. I played a lot of stuff I discovered on abandonia or homeoftheunderdogs back when I had an old computer that couldn't handle what was on the shelves in stores

Again GOG's is ok. It's not great, but it's also not an obstruction like Origin is.

Same here, I won't buy Titanfall as long as it requires Origin.

Don't wanna be that guy, but you really should. It's quite awesome and you don't need to deal with Origin hardly at all, just let it run in the background and it's 99% fine.

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