I guess I was like him, well I never complained on the forums I kept it to myself.

In 2004 I got Steam because it came with the physical boxed version of the PC version of Half-Life 2 sold at brick and mortar retailer stores, I was like ok, then 2006 I purchased the physical boxed version of the PC version of Red Orchesrta Osfront 41-45 from Fry's Electronic I was like eh cool. Then in 2009 when I purchased the physical boxed version of the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 I got mad.

In 2010 I purchased the physical boxed version of Fallout: New Vegas and I was like damnit why did Bethesda Softworks have to do this. In 2011 I purchased the physical boxed version of PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and I got even more mad because of Steam and being more boring than The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

In 2012 I purchased my last video game from Steam, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. September 2015 will be 3 years that I have not purchased a single video game from Steam.

In 2010 when I heard about Electronic Arts (EA's) Origin I was like damnit another client. April 28th or whatever when I saw the paid mods I was like ok Steam's monopoly needs to be broken.

Now since April 28th, 2015 I actually prefer Electronic Arts (EA's) Origin over Steam, but I still have not created a Origin account.

In a way I was like jimmy cry baby I was mad at multiple clients. This year I realized we need multiple clients as long as they are not like SecuROM where it can destroy your harddrive or give you a limitation of how many times you can activate a video game on your PC.

We need multiple clients like GoG Galaxy and Origin to not let Steam be a monopoly on the PC gaming market.

I won't talk about Ubisoft's uPlay client because it still sucks.

True story: This started doing this shortly after they began construction, and yet they kept building the damn thing.

In answer to your question, no, it never was. :P

Unfortunately. I'm still not giving up just yet, which is probably a display of my own lack of common sense.

or you are just a boundless optimist


and a whiny troll flamebait whine fest has been defused to talk about how common sense is a super power these days

..only in this place

I would mention that it's totally how I roll too, but then you forbid me to mention kerbal.

A friendlier term for "stupidly naive", is it?

It's why I like this place.

^ if you prefer ;p
hope springs eternal after all

I only made that "mistake" once. Bought a retail game with Steam requirement, because I figured, "Oh well, let's give it a try".

Had nothing but trouble with it, eventually started buying exclusively from GOG ( or directly from developers ), and never looked back.

I think it's a sanity-self-defence thing. For the sake of my own sanity, I can't believe that the OP is being serious. ;)

Oh? Like the monopoly that Steam has going on with the PC gaming industry? This thread is a testament to that.

They used to have their own client, Capsule.
It was interesting, since it let you return games you played/finished for store credit. Unfortunately, it also was the WORST regarding DRM to allow for that, it called back to reauthenticate the state of your game license all the time, which was pretty damn annoying.

I have no idea if they still have Capsule. It was interesting, but too much of a pain in the ass to deal with.

this post is filled with so much stupid and bad trolling that I honestly think it gave me cancer.

Now, they have the Playfire client. From what I heard, it's worse.

You know what, i'm with you little jimmy!!! They should have sold STEAM keys, not because of your dumb problems but because we would have less people here complaining about TW3 related stuff.

I kind of find it amusing how many people are butthurt about not being able to get a Steam key, but then I am brimming with schadenfreude.