http://affotd.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/nixon-fist-pump.jpg

Nothing's wrong with steam unless you're mentally slow or whatever.
I find that the only people who find it intrusive are the same people who collect viruses and take dumps in their computer cases.

It's nice to see a move forward obviously, i only use Gog.com for buying older games & aslong as they continue to do so, who cares what else they go into, it will only help them.

Though on this, i personally would never buy a new release on here unless it was substantially cheaper than steam, the DRM on steam is barely existant all you need is your internet connection & as someone who always has there internet on just having my games all on steam is easier.

Though the DRM on steam is barely existant, my dialysis center has firewalled it. I cannot play the 20 some games while I sit on a dialysis machine for 4 very boring hours 3 times a week. GOG is a very nice alternative.

You can put Steam in offline mode before leaving home. But I agree that GOG is awesome.

Our future is bright. (Experimental bump)

If you add skyrim... Holy mother of mod I would be up all night

The problem is that steam not only makes you depend on your internet connection but also on the Steam servers. This dependency is unwanted and unneeded. If steam shuts down (hacker attack, power failure, maintenance or if valve simple doesn't want to pay the bill any more) you're stuck with games that won't run. That's a big waste of cash.

If not "Good Old Games", how about "Gamers Over Greed" to reflect your priorities? ;)

i certainly hope this all goes through well because as it stands DRMs are so annoying i bought a console for new games so i wouldnt have to deal with them like how much of a pain windows live can be or the whole diablo 3 issue.

Steam's DRM is certainly NOT barely existent. Steam has several forms of DRM (API, Stub, CEG), and all of them certainly can prevent you from being able to play the games you purchase from ("subscribe to") Steam and likely will do so if you use Steam often enough. Your specious comment of "all you need is your Internet connection" proves that and could be applied to almost all forms of DRM used in PC games including even Ubisoft's notorious version.

By the way since you don't know how to spell the word "existent," it's no surprise that you don't know what DRM actually is or how Steam's DRM really works.

wow no need to be a douchebag about it

not necessarily

Steam's offline mode is a restrictive joke that is likely to be unavailable/disabled exactly when you need it.

First, you have to save your Steam account password on your PC to even be able to use offline mode. This is a huge security risk because it would allow someone who uses or steals your PC to not only use your Steam account, but also to purchase games from Steam using your account if your payment information is stored or to have your Steam account banned from online play or even permanently disabled for violating Valve's broad terms of service for Steam.

Second, even if you do go ahead and save your account password, offline mode will only work with that one Steam account. If you have more than one Steam account (multiple family members), the other accounts will not work in offline mode, and you cannot login to another account while still in offline mode.

Third, offline mode won't work for any game which was not completely updated (100%) when you last connected to Steam. So, if you disconnected from Steam before a game downlaod or update finished, or if you had any of your games set to not update and an update for them was available, you will not be able to play any of those games offline.

Fourth, offline mode won't work indefinitely for any game which uses Steam's CEG form of DRM. CEG uses custom executables which are time-bombed to only work for 30-days from when they are first downloaded/created. So, you have to reconnect to Steam and have it redownload/refresh the executable file for each of these games every so often to be able to play these games. CEG is used in all of Valve's games starting with Left 4 Dead 2 as well as all of THQ's games on Steam, Take 2's games (except for Rockstar games), The Serious Sam series of FPS games, and many titles from other major publishers like Square Enix/Eidos.

In summary Steam's offline mode has a lot of restrictions on it which can certainly prevent it from working, and there is no way to enable offline mode to get around these restrictions if you are already offline.


Heh, I'd rather be right than be liked.

On second thought it was a little harsh, but the asshole who posted directly above him (Bomimo) pissed me off before I wrote that.

You can change your name to Gamers over greed! Note: this is not my idea i simply support it