27th July 2010, 5:11 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Steam is evil, but their sales are impressively cheap. :(
I'm not sure I get this. You are the only person I've ever met that thinks Steam is "evil". Could you explain? Just about everyone else I talk to say Valve's just about the only company that does digital distribution right. I mean, I'm not sure what else you could ask for from them. Online activation is really not that big a deal if that's it, and that's the LEAST of the great digital distribution offenses of this generation. You can, after activation, play any steam game offline whenever you want FOREVER, and they all have LAN support too on top of that, unlike Starcraft 2.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)