Yeah dude, I'm sure the silly and anecdotal experience of the GOG forums is representative of some vast number of gamers. Oh wait, it's not.

Certainly doesn't help give an accurate representation when people are being downvoted for saying they like Steam on this thread.

Have games on Steam, GOG, UPlay (The worst IMHO and the one I hate using the most), Bethesda.net & Origin. They all have their pros and cons but over the years I've had the least (cons) with Steam.

THey are starting to put some of thier games on steam, but you can buy off thier website too.

+1 here. I have completely abandoned all of my Steam games ever since Impulse came out. And 90% of them are bought retail from the local game shop. The rest were freebies from hardware purchases (mostly DTR notebooks), from pre-orders, or from promos from indies who offer up free Steam keys (e.g., Uber Entertainment, Egosoft, TaleWorlds, etc.) with the games you order from their own store.

Because Valve admonishes that you do not own any of the games on their service, then I don't see what I have on there that's even worth going back to.

I have. Now that the same clause is present in GOG and GOG was the last hold out, the resistance is dead. The war is over and we all lost.

You forget retrospective legislation (to correct this current legislation) in the future.
Also, they can have my copy of a game when they pry it from my laptop's cold, dead harddrive. ;-P

I can't sell items in the market, because i have not purchased a game over a year. This says enough about my relationship with Steam.

the only thing I boycot is Chick-fil-A.

Everything else is fair game.
Just now picked up another Humble Bundle on Steam. Good stuff! :D

(to the OP)

I do. Have never bought anything there, and never will.

Who the hell keeps Necro-ing threads?

I started my boycott of Steam when they cut off access to my game library on the retro XP rig that I keep. Sure, sell games that specifically STATE "Not optimized for Windows 7 or later" right on their store page, but don't even support basic library access on those OS or provide offline installers..

Dude Chick-Fil-A tastes amazing.

3% of the dollar value of my purchases over the last 12 months have been on Steam, the rest is GOG. It isn't a complete boycott, but close enough.

I object to their pay to win account levelling and sales metagames.
I object to them wielding the death penalty on single player games that I have purchased - anything that won't run on Win7 (and in a few years Win10) vanishes in a puff of smoke when they kill the steam client for that OS.

I object to their lack of morals in making bundles of money through lootboxes and pay to progress clicker games.

Sad to admit but they updated our library in steam with new Ui which takes 3x the resources it did with the old library. Its now way more annoying to navigate and the load times on older machines are horrible. Thus distancing themselves from older users. New gen gamers may be tottally fine with that BS. I have like 250 games on my account. But im not going to support them untill we get our old version back. Which knowing them may not happen. They had only one job to run their platform, if it aint broken dont fix it. But they start to make stupid decisions since they dont develope games anymore. And moderators now silence anyone and pull all the negative threads together into topics that are marked answered already so less users will ever see it.