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I've been there too, always used Steam to install the majority of the games I played. Then EA decided to only release Battlefield on Origin, then Ubisoft decided you also needed to install their launcher, now we also have the Epic Games launcher and the Blizzard Launcher (warranted they always had this).

Between each of these launchers they have their own chat platforms, I need to duplicate my friends list between them all and they each have their pros and cons.

It's not great and its frustrating. Clearly Steam had a fantastic solution and was ahead of its time in terms of digital distribution of content.

Why can't we move to a solution like brick and mortar stores where every game is made available at every online store? Then I can choose where I want to download the game from.




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