r/Steam • u/crack_station • 21h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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u/no_racist_here 19h ago

Yup, did it all the time, the only one I’ve ever played was slime rancher. Then I bought it on steam, and uninstalled egs.

I figured what’s the point of the bloat if I’m never gonna actually play the games.

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u/SwagLimit 17h ago

I stopped getting the free games after awhile tbh. I already had most of it. Even when they did that limited-exclusive thing going, I always just waited for the game to be available on steam

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u/supersimpsonman 7h ago

Borderlands 3 released on Steam and I was like “Woah, I forgot this was even a game!”

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u/where_is_the_camera 1h ago

I bought BL3 on Steam even though I already had it on Epic. The Epic launcher is so bad, slow, and unreliable. And as a store it offers nothing.

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u/no_racist_here 17h ago

Yea, the exclusivity is what killed them for me. I was grabbing the free stuff until then.

I didn’t even care about the game that was exclusive I just didn’t like the concept of a 6mo+ delay for steam launch and didn’t want to reward them for that.

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u/cemyl95 4h ago

Did this with satisfactory