ceyan -> RE: Plans for Steam? Price Reductions? (5/30/2012 3:50:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Kordanor I don't see where all the hatred is coming from, especially when steam is just an option and not mandatory. Currently it seems like everyone and their dog offers a steam version as an option. Examples? Xenonauts, Grimrock, Avadon/Avernum. And also Galactic Civilizations 2 to throw in a 4X Space game. If you are against using steam yourself thats fine. But if you want to "forbid" other users to use steam, not so much. Personally I love steam and if I buy a game it's either a CE-Box or a digital steam edition. I like to have my games all in one place and not spread around the internet. For that reason I wont buy a digital game, if I can't get it on steam. That was also one of my reasons to not buy Mass Effect 3. I use Steam on a regular basis, and have a large catalog of Steam games, although I prefer other services. I really only have two problems with Steam: 1) Unfixed problems. Steam has some problems, mostly not that big of a deal, that have been on the docket for years. Games will still not properly download while playing, even if the official stance from Valve is that they're supposed to continue downloading when not playing multiplayer. Instead you have to alt-tab out, forcibly pause the already paused download, then restart it. Offline mode will also not work for some people on some games, and there are many conditions in which anyone can break it intentionally which will occasionally happen to people unintentionally. I can forgive this in many cases, but not when we're talking about a relatively simple application that forms the backbone of a multi-million dollar company and have been known/acknowledge for years. I don't know if it's acknowledged or not, but I also have to register my PC through Steamguard at least three times every time I rebuild before it sticks. 2) The users. Valve has people convinced that requiring a third-party app to download and authenticate a game purchase isn't DRM. Valve has also convinced people that they're never going to screw over the customer which isn't necessarily nefarious but, for example, all we have is a off-the-cuff comment that they won't from a guy who has also acknowledged he doesn't actually run the company he owns. Or, like in this case, that somehow installing a game through any other source and adding the game to Steam to make use of the Steam Overlay is either not to be done or somehow worse than buying the game from Steam, despite the all of 60 seconds of extra organization and effort it takes to manage that. Granted there isn't a whole lot Valve can do about #2, but there ya go.
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