To me, STEAM is a giant slap in the face from Valve. All I can see when I load steam is Gabe Newell going, "We dont trust our customers enough to let them play our games the normal way. We want complete and total control so we can sap as much money as possible from them, and to hell with them if they dont want to use STEAM, Its Valve's game not theirs! nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!"
Course, thats just me. There are hundreds of thousands of sheep out there that LOVE steam because it "Downloads patches and stuff automatically". Yah thats great. I just love it when software updates itself without telling me anything about it or giving me any option at all as to whether I want to install this stuff or not. I dont trust Valve, not because I hate them, but because they've give me no reason to trust them. I feel the same way about any software company. I dont want to give control of my PC to someone else just because they want to hog my memory with their proprietary piece of shit content delivery system. I've had more problems with steam than I can remember having with any other game and Valve has shown little respect to me or any other customer. It just seems to me like Valve knows they arent making decent games anymore and want to make sure to screw everyone for as much money as possible while they still can.
Sorry if this sounded like a rant, I tried to organize it as succintly and rationally as possible, but I really dislike STEAM, and all it means for the Gaming industry and I've been studying for the past 18 hours so Im not totally sane right now...
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And everyone wonders why people are slowly forgetting there computers and going to console systems. The companies are killing their own business. I haven't bought a PC game in ages. Takes forever to install then you have to dig the cd out. Hope there are no conflicts or if your 2 year old computer is to old to run it. FORGET IT I will just get the newest console when it comes out every few years.
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Hit the nail right on the head. When its that much of a hassle to install and play a game, its worth it to pick up a PS2 or Xbox in my mind. Way to alienate your consumer base Valve
