Steam was great and then this roadblock happened.

[A Black Falcon]

Steam is a great service, but it definitely has some significant flaws... that you have to activate games online first that you bought in the store before you can play them offline is stupid, the fact that you can't select folders to install games to so you'd better have put Steam on a drive with a LOT of free harddrive space if you plan on downloading stuff (you can move it all I think but you can't break up the Steam folder...), this...