A lot of people don’t seem to understand that Steam is DRM.
No one wanted to use Steam when it was released and the only reason anyone did is vendor lock-in on copies of Half-Life that were purchased at retail with no mention of Steam until Valve altered the bargain.
Some “innovation” to force people to use your service to keep playing a game they already purchased.
I’m surprised that people are so pro steam here. I guess more younger people than older people that remember how garbage it was. It was GameSpy arcade with extra steps. I’ll get down voted all day but this is how steam was looked at. No one wanted it and it was a complete disaster for a long time. Like let’s add a monstrous background task when everyone had single core cpus.
A lot of people don’t seem to understand that Steam is DRM.
No one wanted to use Steam when it was released and the only reason anyone did is vendor lock-in on copies of Half-Life that were purchased at retail with no mention of Steam until Valve altered the bargain.
Some “innovation” to force people to use your service to keep playing a game they already purchased.
I’m surprised that people are so pro steam here. I guess more younger people than older people that remember how garbage it was. It was GameSpy arcade with extra steps. I’ll get down voted all day but this is how steam was looked at. No one wanted it and it was a complete disaster for a long time. Like let’s add a monstrous background task when everyone had single core cpus.
Because most people started using Steam when it became good, and not the clunky pile of shit it was before 2008.
Solid point.
Who is really denying or surprised by the idea that Steam is a form of DRM?