Someone in the now defunct Bioware forums mentioned the site Good Old Games as a DRM-free alternative to Steam.

I was led here because I was seeking a disc-free installation of my Fallout game. I do not participate in YouTwitFace et alia, and I gave up on Valve's invasive Steam system years ago, so the DRM-free executables are what keeps me here.
And the remarkable group of people who contribute this social network, of course.

I work at Barnes & Noble, and one of my work buddies heard me carrying on about the new Witcher books, and that I owned and had played the original game for PC, but that it was so old, it would no longer play or update from the discs. He told me to check GoG.com out, and I am not sorry, played through the first big encounter a couple nights ago. This place is Nerdvana, folks!

I just guessed to make an account in GOG as the account i have on Steam (I mean i wanted to make an account in every digital game store).

I was originally a BIG PC gamer, but once DRM becamse license heavy restricting how many times you could install a game, I stopped being a PC gamer. I switched over to a console if anything. STEAM also was a similar DRM, at first being extremely glitchy to the point that it would stop games from running even if you legally owned them. It also had this always online at the time, and was basically another form of oppressive DRM. This basically turned me off of Steam forever. (I hear they changed the always online requirement, but their mindset was revealed from the very beginning, it's just another way to punish the consumer and thus I refuse to use STEAM, even as it's evolved to what it is today. Nothing is more hostile to gamers than the DRM they tried to impose at first, and nothing shows me that this mindset has really changed, just their methods of control).

So, i stopped playing PC games except for the old games which I installed. As time went on, it became harder and harder to troubleshoot getting them to run.

I had heard about GOG, and eventually decided to check it out, primarily where the old X-wing series of games were involved. Got them, and found they worked as well as a LOT of games being here that did not have any DRM.

I hated dealing with DRM, but GOG games had none. It brought me back to the fold of PC gaming in a way that I'm a bigger PC gamer now than probably I was ever before (with literally hundreds of games from GOG). I started with just old games, but have moved onto the new releases even. As long as it's DRM free and I don't have to deal with the BS of DRM, I'm game.