What is wrong with having multiple store front? It is not like you have to use each of them to play games. You only need a handful of them to play specific games like Battlenet, Oriign, UPlay and Steam while the rest like GOG, Gamersgate and Humble Bundle are just pay and forget because most of their games comes with Steam key if not just download DRM free copies and keep.

I dont know whats your problem with multiple networks to manage.

It is better for consumers at the end due to competition between different stores which resulted better deals and cheaper price.

Kinda expected it. You probably have to keep buying booster packs to be competitive but hopefully you cant buy cards outright.

its not that bad actually. some are improving. some are, well, not so good.

steam
- had login issues for us malaysians in the past. fixed.
- steamworks, many developers are using steamworks
- steam trading cards, many developers are creating cards for steam trading cards
- sales (xmas, summer, autumn, Halloween, daily, weekly, developers week, etc)
- steam has many non steamworks games as well

uplay
- the uplay store sells ubisoft's games
- online profile for newer ubisoft games
- uplay only for ubisoft games at the moment

origins
- the origins store sells ea games only
- online profile for newer ea games

battle.net
- new battle.net client, kinda like steam / uplay except for a few blizzard games only
- battle.net store sells blizzard games only

GOG.com
- online store that sells DRM free games
- sales

Gamersgate.com
- online store that sells games
- got sell steamwork games too
- sales

Humble Bundle
- charity
- sells bundles of games at low price
- has steam cd keys and DRM free downloads

Rockstar Social Club
- online profile for rockstar games

Green Man Gaming
- nice discount vouchers for pre purchasing some steamwork games





most people use steam.
origin is forced upon gamers who want to play ea's newer games. ea newer games cannot be bought on steam.
uplay is an online profile login for ubisoft games. ubisoft games still can be bought on steam.
blizzard's game uses battle.net only.