What Are The Differences Between Raptr, Overwolf, and Steam?

[Ralph Vargr]

Overwolf comes with Team Speak, Raptr comes with AMD, and Steam is a sharing platform from Valve. That's all I know.

What are the real differences between them? It seems that all of them want to have an additional layer between the played game, and the local gaming machine, just for data mining.

Please note that most of my new gaming purchases are now for tablets and phones. I no longer buy many PC games, and I do not play console games.

So, what is all the *ahem* steam about?

 

[Asp Explorer]

There's no real difference between any of them. They only exist to serve ads, collect your hardware profile, ensure you can only play games you have a license for, trawl through your browsing history, and send a whole heap of data to IP's unknown.

There is a bit more to it though - once the data-grubbers have got all they need, on internal networks they still use IPX/SPX. It simply stinks.