Thoughts on buying work software through Steam?

Noth · Jun 25 2026

What do you guys make of it? Is it totally fine to you, or is it annoying starting up Steam to fire up X software? I have a few on there, I use Designer there and it's generally okay for me. I don't really like it, but there's some fun side effects like it tracking your hours in the software, imagine if I had those stats on Maya or ZBrush...

Vexod14 · Jun 25 2026

Personally I hate steam for it's added step to simply launch an app, GoG makes things much simpler but I don't know if they use to sell softwares too ; but the good thing with steam (or GoG if they appear to go that way too) is that licenses are perpetual. That's a huge plus nowadays

gnoop · Jun 25 2026

Steam is am annoying extra step yet I bought a few software there I wouldn't even think about probably like some pretty old versions of Modo and Mari and also an absolute jewel: Reality capture , which once was a subscription based on Steam but before they were bought out by Ubisoft they granted unlimited , unrestricted by any conditions full permanent license to their Steam subscribers . So thanks Steam to be. And that older version is simpler to use and better in general than current one. On my GPU at least.

Noth · 1:04AM

interesting, thanks guys -- I agree on all points. @gnoop do you still use modo and mari? @Vexod14 agree! perpetual website download is king..

gnoop · 1:08AM

Noth Nope. But used them both for quite a while

SeveredScion · 4:23PM

I hate extra steps and I hate bloat that takes up space on my PC. I don't want to have to be logged into Steam in order to use Maya or something.

Thoughts on buying work software through Steam?

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