provides the social aspects that steam does, not even close which along with stability are the two most important things to me.
That is just it, the social side of steam is brilliant. Its just I don't like that a store, whose ultimate goal is to sell me stuff above all else, is the one that has developed it and has become essential to PC gaming (whether valve had anything to do with the game or not). If the steam social features where apart of an open source project or even a company that made its money from ads, I'd be less nervous. Eventually I thinks such an open source project will come along as more developers like EA start requiring their own store apps, but until then I'm not going to be a happy camper with them.
There's also the fact that its offline mode is utter crap. I don't mind periodically needing to be connected to the internet to check things (in a way sort of like rhapsody or I assume other music subscription services), but needing to go online first then go offline is just stupid, since for me most offline time is unexpected due to outages.
