Valve changes Steam user agreement, finally creates some backlash against Steam

[A Black Falcon]

NOt that it'll get anywhere, of course. I mean, what choice do you have... but yeah, some of the stuff in the current agreement's really bad (and some of it's illegal, too, particularly in Europe). Basically, you don't actually own anything you "bought" on Steam. If they close your account (or if you close it), you lose all access to all of your games forever, with no recompense or return of your money. You need to log on to their servers to play anything, too, of course. And they do their best to try to convince Europeans that European law, which allows anyone to return a digital purchase for full refund within the first week of purchase, that they can't actually do it (they can).

So yeah, don't expect Steam to be doing anything to follow that European court decision that said that digital software must be able to be sold (you know, as a used game) anytime soon, that's for sure. Maybe if someone sues them?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=485408

Overall, it's nice to see some real pushback against Valve, finally. It's been way too long, and they certainly deserve it... but the current trajectory of games changing from things you own, to things you rent from a content provider as long as they feel like allowing you to keep using it, continues unabated. That is a very, very bad thing, to say the least.

And on that note, Woz prefers to own things too. I'm sure "cloud is the best" people will call that outdated, but since when is having everything you own be actually only provisionally borrowed as long as companies want to allow you to keep using it the better way? It's not!
http://news.yahoo.com/apple-co-founder-w...22245.html

... In conclusion, use gog. :)