Does anyone here use Steam?

[Mr. Pedantic]

And that is the point I was making... eventually Steam will no longer exist.

Eventually the Earth will no longer exist. What was your point?

 

[pgp_protector]

And that is the point I was making... eventually Steam will no longer exist.

Eventually CDs Drives will be obsolete.
Eventually DVDs Drives will be obsolete.
Eventually your version of your OS will be obsolete.
Eventually your Console Gaming system will be obsolete.

 

[pgp_protector]

Be warned, I bought steam for the purpose to purchase one game, about 2 years ago now. My steam game library is at 36 titles now.....

There are so many good deals on that site that you'll be forced to buy.

Yea, got the Orcs Must Die last year during their holiday sale.
Got ORcs Must Die 2 this year

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

Eventually the Earth will no longer exist. What was your point?

The point is you're dumping money into a product that doesn't permit you to actually own any of the content, so if Steam were to sell to a larger company next year (which has happened to many companies in the past when its owners gets greedy) which cared more about making as much profit as possible and ruined the service to the point of everyone moving to a competitor causing Steam to close its doors, then everyone who bought games from them, spent thousands of dollars with them will pretty much be screwed because there will no longer be a way to activate those games again even if they backed them up.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

The point is you're dumping money into a product that doesn't permit you to actually own any of the content, so if Steam were to sell to a larger company next year (which has happened to many companies in the past when its owners gets greedy) which cared more about making as much profit as possible and ruined the service to the point of everyone moving to a competitor causing Steam to close its doors, then everyone who bought games from them, spent thousands of dollars with them will pretty much be screwed because there will no longer be a way to activate those games again even if they backed them up.

EA wants to buy Valve for $1 000 000 000 | Steam Unpowered

In fact, I'm with Gabe on this one: I would rather see Steam (and Valve) die and all my games become unplayable than go into EA's hands.

 

[pgp_protector]

The point is you're dumping money into a product that doesn't permit you to actually own any of the content, so if Steam were to sell to a larger company next year (which has happened to many companies in the past when its owners gets greedy) which cared more about making as much profit as possible and ruined the service to the point of everyone moving to a competitor causing Steam to close its doors, then everyone who bought games from them, spent thousands of dollars with them will pretty much be screwed because there will no longer be a way to activate those games again even if they backed them up.

We get it you don't like Steam, don't buy their product then.
Not everyone lives life in the What If the worst happens world.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

EA wants to buy Valve for $1 000 000 000 | Steam Unpowered

In fact, I'm with Gabe on this one: I would rather see Steam (and Valve) die and all my games become unplayable than go into EA's hands.

Yah, I would certainly hate to see EA get their hands on anything more. I'm still crossing my fingers for Dragon Age 3, but not holding my breath.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

We get it you don't like Steam, don't buy their product then.
Not everyone lives life in the What If the worst happens world.

I don't. I buy physical product. I have a total of 1 game bought from Steam which I won't be sad if I lose, but it seems I can only buy my Skyrim DLC from there as well. Annoying but not the end of the world.

And no, not everyone spends as much time evaluating possibilities as I do, but they are also the first ones to whinge and complain when the inevitable happens because they didn't think things through. Should we, the ones who actually thought ahead, tell you the same thing you just told me when it does?

 

[*Starlight*]

(Wow, my old thread got revived! It's interesting that after all these years I still haven't bought anything from Steam, and the game I posted about still hasn't been released!)

I think that digital distribution sucks. It's really unfortunate that it has become so popular that even boxed games often require digital activation after installing, like when I bought Portal once, I had to install Steam only to activate it.

I like how old games seem to be kind of self-sufficient. If I find one, I can just install it and play it. No registration, no activation, nothing like that. The game just works. If digital activation had been popular back then, I probably wouldn't be able to play these games, since in many cases the companies that produced them don't exist any more. As for today's games, who knows if it will be possible to play them 10 years from now, or 20 years... The only hope is that there will be cracked versions available. But I won't be surprised if eventually even some of the game content will be hosted on a server, so that even a single player game would need to be constantly connected to the internet, and a crack won't help. And no company will exist forever. One day the game servers will go down for good, and at that moment the game won't exist any more, anywhere.

 

[Maka]

I made an account there, but I haven't played any games yet. My pc is slow so idk if I'll bother. :/