Summing up Steam Options

[Kiln]

I don't like that even if you buy the disc you still have to have a Steam account, an internet connection, and if something happens to the company you're stuck with a useless disc. I'm not saying that it will but if Steam were to shut down and you've been buying the discs you're just as nailed as some guy that direct downloaded it from the online service.

It shouldn't be legal.

[Zalphon]

I completely agree. If the company goes down, I lose access to my games that I have physical copies of? That's assinine.

[Thomas Kaira]

Indeed, Valve is acting quite naive with their whole "Oh, but Steam will never go down" spiel. Hopefully they will be brought to see reason through a DDOS attack or something mild like that. Valve cannot keep going around ignoring their obligation to protect their customer's digital property that THEY PAID FOR WITH THEIR OWN CASH.

Oh, wait, that's right, we don't actually own our game copies anymore thanks to Valve's scheme, we are just paying for the right to play it now, and are utterly reliant on Valve to keep the service up because we are apparently not entitled to anything we receive over the service. So Valve is the only party who can call the shots as to what you do with YOUR COPY of the game. You don't own that copy anymore, Valve does, and so you are not allowed to have any say as to what you can and cannot do with the copy. You cannot resell it, you cannot let another person play it, you cannot just give your copy to someone else, you cannot do anything you could do with a physical copy, and with Steamworks DRM you can't even do that with your physical copies anymore.

How long can the gaming industry continue to treat their customers like criminals? If this continues, we are looking at another pending industry meltdown. You cannot treat your customers like this and get away with it, the free market does not allow for it.

[Zalphon]

It's fairly rediculous that they get away with it. Bethesda just supports them *sigh*

[Bolzmania]

Like Kiln said, this is why I'm happy that I play on the 360.

[mirocu]

Let's not also forget what happens if Steam decides to shut down your account? All the games you paid for go bye-bye.

And that alone is why I loathe Steam.

Or how about when it patches your game without your consent? Patches typically break save game compatibility. Kiss goodbye the 50 hours you spent playing, and start all over again. Until the next patch forced down your throat does it again.

If that happened to my game I think I would have to hurt someone

I will not play a game that requires Steam. If that means spending the rest of my life playing Oblivion, Morrowind, Doom, etc... I am fine with that.

As I already stick with old games and is very selective about new ones, I can so live with that

This post has been edited by mirocu: Apr 18 2013, 08:46 AM