assuming we get to go in knowing what we know from each, and guessing we're joining most likely right before the shit to fan event, prob with little or no time to change anything with little to no rank or power ie (assistant to the part time janitor) . highest chance of survival? prob going with 1 aliens.
perhaps Captain Borodin, in a another life. maybe even sometime say oh i dunno in the third arc of that life you'll be a professor and run a failing dig site at Fort Peck Lake, Montana for fossils!
paying for a subscription/service doesn't matter what you do or want from it, you're still paying for everything included. thats like ordering a combo meal and saying "i only paid for the food and not the drink. that i still get... with the combo..."
steam pros: a store that always has a sale or big holiday sale right around the corner, a social network, a library for game info and game modding, and a trophy case etc.
what was amazon offering? full priced games, no sales that beat steams (a free game offer now and then only if you give them $140 a year and forget about it), and shitty cloud streaming of few games? so they tried nothing actually meaningful, were all out of ideas, but shocked they lost
"it's naht a toomah"