Yeah I understand the reasoning, it is just me whining about having the best of both worlds.
Yeah, I love Steam. I'd rather use Steam than any other service, in most instances - namely games that only use Steamworks and/or games lacking any real DRM protection secretly over there (like say Larian games, DOSBox games, and others might have over there).
I like GOG Galaxy - but damn, that program's now feeling slower and more bloated than Steam. I don't think it's as optimized and probably don't help that I tied almost all my client-app using games and client stuff to it.
I think the double client-app crap is one of the reasons I ain't bought say RDR2 from Steam or Epic, as those versions also use RSC crap; you're stuck w/ both. At this point, I'd rather just have that from Rockstar directly from retailers of distributors digitally selling it (like say Gamersgate), as likely that version's cheaper b/c there's less middle-men involved when they are selling that version to digital distributors. Steam-versions of games from AAA's at other stores often seem to be more expensive b/c of Steam's 30% cut and b/c they know the units & volume are normally over at Steam - and they also are still using their own annoying junk-service too b/c they build the game from the ground-up to require and use that garbage.
And sometimes, I wonder if they - Q&A and/or the dev's - even test the damn thing when they say toss Steam client-app on top of their already-used client-app required-stuff. It's not like they bring it over to Steam and make a straight-up Steam-version that uses only Steamworks - as they (Microsoft, UbiSoft, and EA) are often lazily porting stuff to as many places as they can, utilizing also their own client-app that seems to be built in from the ground-up unfortunately....and then Steam-version might have extra bugs b/c they didn't test stuff properly.
With the way this is going - I dunno, I'll probably just buy Gears 5 and Gears Tactics Windows-store version, whether from Best Buy digitally now or maybe even later. I already played Gears 5; it's awesome. But I really would like to get also the Hivebusters campaign DLC at some point.
About Forza Horizon 4 - definitely want that at some point. I'd probably go Standard, if it was say $10 or less. If it was $15 for Ultimate, I'd go all in. It might take it going End of Life again, like FH3 and Forza MS7, for be to just go all in and go Complete (or close to it at least, to get Main Base-Game and Important Expansions) on it - as it gets to a "Buy It Before It's Forever Gone" scenario b/c of car-license & music-license expiration & nightmarish bullcrap.
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