WereCatf: Personally I don't feel Steam's DRM is all that bad. Valve doesn't mandate the use of Steamworks DRM on any product in their catalog, the decision is all up to the publishers themselves, and even if they did opt for Steamworks DRM it does allow me to play offline whenever I want to, they offer me plenty of actually terrific, useful features in return for buying games off of them and so on. Many of the games in my collection work even without Steam running if I launch them manually. The only thing is that you can't sell the games you've already bought, but then again, the same thing applies to GOG,too.
Of course I would like for all games to be without DRM whatsoever, but the way Valve does it is so far the best DRM'ed approach I've experienced.
Lodium: Acording to Valve you dont own the games on steam, you are just renting them for lifetime.
Yea i know im nitpicking here since there are games you can backup from steam but
it woud certinly be interesting the day if steam went offline for good to see if they really coud keep their promise about
finding a way to give people their games or if they woud come up with another excuse.
You don't own the game period, no matter what service it's on (even here). You own the license, nothing more.
Someone needs to explain to me in what interest does Steam have to denying access to games that people bought. It would cost them millions of dollars, not just from customers, but from publishers who would sue them (for probably breach of contract).