I read Steam's terms of service and uninstalled it from my computer immediately thereafter. There are too many other options for consumers to even considering tolerating such one-sided terms.

I don't boycott steam, I'm not that sad. I do not want to be an anti DRM Vigilante. It all seems a bit silly.

I am not saying that to get under anyone's skin, just my opinion. Sorry if you don't like it.

I've had a Steam account for a while, I think I made it when they gave Portal away. Fallout New Vegas has been my sole purchase there. Boycott might not be the right word, I'd say more of a last recourse for a game I'm really, really interested in. If there are no alternatives and my interest is only mild, I'd rather do without than buy it from them.

I'm actually moving countries soon, wonder if I need to contact them or something.

Only if I buy something Retail that must be Activated on Steam:

Skyrim
Fallout New Vegas
Daggerdale

or if its free:

Portal

Just buy GOG. Best price for great games. Is Matrix steam? Thought about a couple of their games.

Being a carer for my disabled mother I spend a lot of time at her place which means I do a lot of gaming there. I certainly can't afford 2 internet connections & she doesn't need it, so games that insist upon internet connections are completely useless to me, so I refuse to spend money on games I can rarely play. That means anything with Steam & Origin is a no go for me.

Are you saying every game on steam needs a constant connection? Except the process of downloading them, that's completely false. Unless I have completely misread your post.

He's saying his mother doesn't have an internet connection, so he can't install any games at his mother's house that require a client. (I'm assuming he has a desktop at his mother's place and isn't talking about a laptop).

I don't boycott, but I naturally find myself buying from other places. Most of my Steam games are from bundles, so I don't really make many direct Steam purchases. Plus, Amazon tends to match or even beat prices from Steam (maybe not at the same time, though), and it's easier to use Amazon GCs so I'm not spending actual cash.

I have over 500 games on Steam , I have never had a problem with any of them , I do normally only buy them when they are on sale though , I still buy from other sources I also love gog and have nearly 60 games here too. I feel a lot of people tend to cut their noses to spite their faces with this irrational anti Steam / Drm hysteria.

I don't boycott Steam games per se - I just don't buy them.. (as that would require me to get an account on Steam, which I won't..)

I don't "boycott" Steam games as such, I just don't buy them. (Edit: Ninja'd :-D)

The only Steam games I have are Valve's own, and I bought them all retail. This may seem odd, but that's the agreement I've made with myself. My reasoning is something like "It's Valve's service, so naturally they'll put their own games on there, but anyone else who chooses to lock their games into what is, for them, a third party service, really has no excuse, and I won't support them".

I very, very rarely buy Steam games directly any more. I used to have a bit of a weak spot for Steam achievements and Steam Cloud (for simpler games that I can play on my laptop), but after a couple of unpleasant run-ins with Steam Support and general frustration with Steam DRM, I decided to avoid it as much as possible. I basically use DropBox and SaveGame Manager as a cloud replacement anyway now, and as so many devs choose to implement multiplayer achievements for games where multiplayer is dead, the incentive to get 100% completion has kinda waned.

Generally Steam will be my last port of call for a game. If it's available on PS3 and better served with a gamepad, I'll buy it on PS3 (recent exception: Sleeping Dogs, as the PS3 version was so atrociously bad). If it's available DRM-free, I'll generally pay more elsewhere.

I bought Kung Fu Strike recently directly from Steam as it was a game I was very curious about, it was 2 euros, and the developer decided to go Steamworks exclusive anyhow, and I went four ways with the Gamersgate Torchlight II bundle, which is also Steamworks, because I'd rather use that than depend on yet another DRM solution with limited activations. Other than that, I hadn't bought a game directly from Steam since June.

I wouldn't go as far as call it boycott, but as long as I have a huge backlog of older quality games as well as new DRM free indies, I see no reason to pay for the privelige of renting games from Steam and having to use a third party program to play them. The only game I'm really missing is Skyrim anway, since most AAA titles the past 5 years are either interactive movies or corridor shooters with behind-the-ass-camera, neither of which interest me much.