[WildGreenLeave]

Personally I think Steam is one of the best game platform (for a lack of a better word). It is fast, easy to use, nice sales/cheap in general, downloads are quick. While on the other side Playstation store is the exact oposite of what I just wrote.

[serge2k]

> It is fast

my main complaint is that I find it pretty clunky and slow.

edit: The UI, not downloads. Browsing the store is usually not that pleasant, switching tabs, etc... Downloads usually cap out around 40MB/sec on my connection. Which is fine.

[popey456963]

Really? I'm comparing with others I've tested here and it seems by far to be the best available at the moment. Downloads always seem to work, you can restart them and it actually continues straight on instead of some others that start at the previous block of information (sometimes half a gigabyte before). You have skins that make the client look actually rather nice [0] and you have a game library like no other. It combines the size of library that contains every game you want, with the limit of only having decent games.

Desura, UPlay, etc. seem to have little to no comparability in options, versatility and ease of use.

[0] https://puu.sh/s3ivj/c13e709ead.png

[pixelcloud]

Some of it is highly dependant on your internet connection. But the games library seems to be snappy with 300 games. I find that updates can run extremely slow though, 1-2MB patch taking 5 minutes to download!

I remember when Steam WAS really horrible. The green client ran so poorly and was extremely slow at updating anything,

[duaneb]

I'd argue steam has never stopped sucking, but it's always been reliable. I'll take reliability over usability any day when money's involved.

[oneeyedpigeon]

To paraphrase Churchill, Steam is the worst form of online gaming store imaginable ... apart from all the others.

[jakebasile]

The big online stores (Steam,Origin,UPlay) themselves are pretty interchangeable feature-wise. I buy most stuff on Steam just because I already have a ludicrous amount of games on it. It's pretty much inertia now.

[CaptSpify]

> It is fast, easy to use, nice sales/cheap in general, downloads are quick.

I feel like we're using different clients. My steam client is slow, clunky and often gets in the way of games. Yes, the sales are cheap, and the downloads are quick, but that's irrelevant to the client.

[herbst]

How are the downloads fast? Mine seems stuck on 3-5Mb/s...

[jakebasile]

Make sure a data center close to you is selected in settings. Sometimes their region detection is incorrect.

[herbst]

Thanks for that. I always assumed its just that slow.

[radiorental]

I use both, point noted but objectively... so what if Sony's store is abysmal? Most gamers go for AAA titles that they hear about elsewhere, who cares if the store is hard to search? They 'pre download' the game so who cares about the speed?

Finally, the vast majority of time in the gaming experience is not spent in the store. It's all about the content and the exclusives. Sony has invested heavily here.