What is the point of having a steam account?

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midnitereaper 17 Sep @ 1:55pm

Lately I am starting to notice the games you sell here require us to create accounts with the publishers of the games we buy. I buy Ghost Recon and am required to make a ubisoft account. I download Arena Breakout and am required to create an account. I do not plan to buy anymore Ubisoft games through the Steam store since I am required to login with Ubisoft. I might as well just have those games under my Ubisoft account. I pre ordered Battlefield 6 through the Steam store but if I am required to create an EA account to play then I will be canceling the order and go create an EA account and buy there. Steam you need to look out for your customers and understand your value in the gaming marketplace. You offer a huge library of games. All the games I purchased in the past on Steam never required outside accounts. Thats what I love about my Steam library. I am interested in Escape from Tarkov and held off on the purchase because I heard it would come to the Steam store. Do you understand Steam? I do not want to create and try to remember 100's of accounts to play video games. Xbox doesnt have their users go off and create accounts with publishers. Why do you allow this to happen?

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Thermal Lance 17 Sep @ 2:03pm

They allow this to happen because if they didn't the Publishers will just f*** off and use their own Stores Only

Last edited by Thermal Lance; 17 Sep @ 2:21pm

AmsterdamHeavy 17 Sep @ 2:14pm

You still pre-order games and complain about practices.

Stop pre-ordering games. I really cant take your complaint seriously with that disclosure as you wholeheartedly support these developers with your wallet which is the first thing that should be withdrawn. Especially as it pertains to giving money up front to these publishers.

Yes, extra logins suck.

Last edited by AmsterdamHeavy; 17 Sep @ 2:15pm

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 17 Sep @ 2:23pm

Originally posted by midnitereaper:
What is the point of having a steam account?

Lately I am starting to notice the games you sell here require us to create accounts with the publishers of the games we buy. I buy Ghost Recon and am required to make a ubisoft account. I download Arena Breakout and am required to create an account. I do not plan to buy anymore Ubisoft games through the Steam store since I am required to login with Ubisoft. I might as well just have those games under my Ubisoft account. I pre ordered Battlefield 6 through the Steam store but if I am required to create an EA account to play then I will be canceling the order and go create an EA account and buy there. Steam you need to look out for your customers and understand your value in the gaming marketplace. You offer a huge library of games. All the games I purchased in the past on Steam never required outside accounts. Thats what I love about my Steam library. I am interested in Escape from Tarkov and held off on the purchase because I heard it would come to the Steam store. Do you understand Steam? I do not want to create and try to remember 100's of accounts to play video games. Xbox doesnt have their users go off and create accounts with publishers. Why do you allow this to happen?

Do I need EA App to play Battlefield 6?

Steam players will not need to use EA App to play Battlefield 6 but will need an EA account. Those who purchased Battlefield 6 via the Epic Games Store will need EA App and an EA account to play.

https://www.ea.com/en/games/battlefield/battlefield-6/faq

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; 17 Sep @ 2:23pm

Tito Shivan 17 Sep @ 2:27pm

It's a pain in the rear to rebuild and maintain your online presence on multiple services at the same time. So people pick a main and run the rest through it. Friendlists, achievements, stats all gathered in the same service. And having the third party clientas a requirement isn't usually that much of a hassle as some people make it to be.

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
They all know this to happen because if they didn't the Publishers will just f*** off and use their own Stores Only

And when EA did, we got ten years of "Why Isn't [EA Game] on Steam?"
And when they came back EA games topped the top seller charts for weeks.

Originally posted by midnitereaper:
All the games I purchased in the past on Steam never required outside accounts.

Things change. Now everyone wants to try being the 'new Steam' and control the 100% of the revenue stream for themselves. That means online services booming like streaming services did years ago (Remember when it was just Netflix out there?)

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:
Yes, extra logins suck.

Once. Or once in a blue moon. Most people save their login credentials and the clients are just another piece of code that runs before the game with almost no intervention. (I don't remember last time I had to manually login on my EA or Ubi apps)

BoubouV12 17 Sep @ 3:31pm

For me, the main benefit of having a Steam account is the security and longevity of my library. I had a bad experience with Electronic Arts when they forced the switch from Origin to the EA app: all my games disappeared from my library, and I was never able to recover them. This is exactly the kind of situation that can't happen on Steam, because the platform reliably stores my purchases, regardless of the publishers' whims.

Of course, more and more publishers are requiring the creation of external accounts (Ubisoft Connect, EA, etc.), and I find that annoying. But Steam remains a layer of protection: even if a launcher changes or disappears, my games are still listed and accessible in my Steam library.

That's why I prefer to buy my games there: Steam gives me a centralized repository for my games, a real library that I control, instead of depending solely on publisher platforms that can close, merge, or delete content.

Snapjak 17 Sep @ 3:35pm

Originally posted by midnitereaper:
All the games I purchased in the past on Steam never required outside accounts.

The earliest game I can recall "forcing" a separate login that I bought was Dragon Age: Origins. It required a Bioware account if you wanted any of the bonus dlc and that was way back in 2009.

nullable 17 Sep @ 3:39pm

Originally posted by midnitereaper:
What is the point of having a steam account?

Stop using yours and find out.

Originally posted by midnitereaper:
Why do you allow this to happen?

Valve has been very successful not managing other people's products, or trying to use their store to control the gaming industry. That's why.

Moonbreaker 17 Sep @ 4:22pm

I agree, thats why I have been avoiding games with those requirements.

William Shakesman 17 Sep @ 4:52pm

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:
Yes, extra logins suck.
Once. Or once in a blue moon. Most people save their login credentials and the clients are just another piece of code that runs before the game with almost no intervention. (I don't remember last time I had to manually login on my EA or Ubi apps)

It's not the auto-logins that suck, it's that one day where they don't work and you have to jump through hoops to get them going again.

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
They all know this to happen because if they didn't the Publishers will just f*** off and use their own Stores Only
And when EA did, we got ten years of "Why Isn't [EA Game] on Steam?"
And when they came back EA games topped the top seller charts for weeks.

Steam money is too lucrative for people to stay away from for too long if the product itself isn't a system seller.

KrakenGreywolf 17 Sep @ 5:53pm

I agree that games with secondary logins are annoying, that’s why I rarely purchase them. Most games that have them include a disclaimer-I’m not sure if that’s a requirement by Steam or not-but I usually see disclaimers on games that have them.

While I’d love to see more games/publishers move away from the “required secondary login” nonsense (a few publishers have been at least partially doing this)-I think it’s better to have the game available on Steam than not have it available because people don’t like secondary logins.

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Princess Luna 17 Sep @ 10:29pm

Only 3 of ny games want me to create their account. I dony play those

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K0rang 18 Sep @ 2:42am

I find games that utilize external logins a real pain sometimes, so I try to avoid them.

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Tito Shivan 18 Sep @ 3:11am

Originally posted by William Shakesman:
Steam money is too lucrative for people to stay away from for too long if the product itself isn't a system seller.

EA stood themselves out of it for a decade quite fine. But their games are the kind of people flock to and not the other way around.

Double dipping is double the fun though.

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76561198407601200 18 Sep @ 11:46am

Originally posted by midnitereaper:
Lately I am starting to notice the games you sell here require us to create accounts with the publishers of the games we buy. I buy Ghost Recon and am required to make a ubisoft account. I download Arena Breakout and am required to create an account. I do not plan to buy anymore Ubisoft games through the Steam store since I am required to login with Ubisoft. I might as well just have those games under my Ubisoft account. I pre ordered Battlefield 6 through the Steam store but if I am required to create an EA account to play then I will be canceling the order and go create an EA account and buy there. Steam you need to look out for your customers and understand your value in the gaming marketplace. You offer a huge library of games. All the games I purchased in the past on Steam never required outside accounts. Thats what I love about my Steam library. I am interested in Escape from Tarkov and held off on the purchase because I heard it would come to the Steam store. Do you understand Steam? I do not want to create and try to remember 100's of accounts to play video games. Xbox doesnt have their users go off and create accounts with publishers. Why do you allow this to happen?

And for the games that do no require 3rd party launchers you'll be back on steam to purchase regardless. Somehow it is logical to go to another store to buy a game simply to launch from their launcher each time yet complain when you need to do the exact same thing on steam.

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Eiselin Hulkenberg 18 Sep @ 2:25pm

I don't buy games that require extra account. Games that require another launcher go straight into my ignore list, which means Ubisoft is in my ignore list. Their games suck anyway.