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josh_the_hot_boy

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If you've played most any recent computer game I'm sure you do. I'm gonna come out and say it. I hate Steam I hate what it represents. Call me old school call me ancient I don't care. Steam is a nonessential third party component that is not required for the functionality of the game but yet your still forced to use it. Disappearing are the days of walking into a store and buying a game in cash and taking it home and installing it WITHOUT the need for an internet connection. Thanks but I'll control my own applications. I'll update when I choose to. I can manage my own games. I don't need a piece of overbearing crap to do it for me. The internet is great and I use it everyday but I want to be able to disconnect my self from it when I choose to and I want my applications to still work when I choose to do so. The only person I want controlling my computer and the data stored on it is me. Don't force me to use something that isn't required for the functionality of the product I bought. Steam is only required to play the game because Valve has set it up that way not because the game it self depends on it. I'm old school I'm ancient and I wanna keep it that way!



Does anyone else agree???
 
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I give steam this much: it offers offline mode once a game is installed. And don´t forget the steam sales.
The biggest problem i have with steam is the fact that games are tied to your account. So the reseller market for pc games is dead nowadays. My consequence: i only buy steamgames that are at least half of the retail prices.
What enrages me the most are people who won´t buy a game that does not suppport steam. Yes, people are actively screaming for beeing punished. Just for having the comfort of having it all in one place. crazy world.
Yes, steam is a nuisance, but has become a necessary evil for pcgames. Thanks to the many folks out there using it without questioning it.
But there are some folks over at gog.com who fight for drm-free games. Most of their games are older tiltes, but they also offer some newer games and great indie titles without such crap as steam, uplay or origin.
 

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"Once Installed" is the key word here. There are games that require an internet connection even just to play the solo game because it requires online activation during the first use. It is evil but no it's not necessary. It's only that way because Valve made it that way not because it had to be done. Your right though I forgot to mention the resale bit. Valve has completely killed the resale market. Forget thrift shop games and yard sale finds now it's full price in store or on sale where? Oh yeah online through Valve.
 

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Yeah, but once activated you can play offline. That is at least something.
Good luck trying this with some of the uplay titles. Upon release Assassins Creed 2 was and HAWX 2 still is always on, as was Splinter Cell Conviction last time i checked! And please do not look at Blizzard if you think steam is a nuisance. Good luck playing any of their recent games without "the net". All this makes steam look like a saint.

Don´t get me wrong i do not like steam, i try to make the best of it if i want to continue playing pc games.
I prefer steam to any other drm (like always on, 5-time activation or some copy protection system that is rooting into your OS like securom, safedisc or tages).
Don´t let us forget that steam (more than any other of the bigger platforms) is supporting indie-titles

And one other point: It is not only steam when it is about sales. There are many stores out there which sell their games for much less then what steam asks for even on summer/winter/holiday sales. You just have to keep your eyes open. The possibility of getting pc games a lot cheaper today is one of the few pros i can see in this form of copy protection system.

Online distribution is the future (as sad as that is) and thus an internet connection will more often then not be required.
Do not damn Valve for creating steam. Damn the publishers who gladly embraced it as the ultimate copy protection system. And damn the gamers who so willingly and unquestionably accepted it.
I am affraid we old school gamers have to live with this. Or we have to stop playing pc games. But i will not give up hope that the wording "drm-free" has a future of survival.
 
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