Yes, that is the irrational part of it. Most of my CD/DVD games collection I will not need in 20 years but whenever I look over it, I feel happy and proud. I feel like a king of a small but beautiful kingdom. Looking at the GOG gameshelf doesn't give me the same feeling. It's the sense of complete and utter ownership that I am besotted with, even if it doesn't make a big difference in practice.

Obviously others feel different and are happy with renting games. I can in no way change them but I can make clear why I feel different.

Interestingly enough, the fact that we "only" buy licenses is actually beneficial for us in the long run. Because due to owning licences and not the games itself, every "refurbishment" done on the games by either the licence giver (eg. EA) or our "subscription partners" (GOG/Steam). Pretty much every time one of those make an old game runable on modern hardware, you can get the patch yourself for free.

Recent legislation even suggests that purely digital delivery actually might have more rights as retail, because due to the physicality of retail, a game might be seen to be sold as "as is" and no longer viable to non-critical updates. Because in 99% of all cases you always have a "service contract" with either the seller or the party who provides the service (eg. Steam), therefore the "sold as is" can't fly.

So keep those E-Mails backed up!

Well, if you lose your internet that will be bad for your steam account indeed. I hope you do back up your GOG games locally, though. ;)

I stealing this :P
Valve hasn't made any games in a while, and I have little faith that Half Life 3 will even be that good. Valve make all their money through Steam now so they don't need to make games and it shows.
I think it comes down to ethics. Yes all companies want money, but how they go about it is very important. Customer service must come first.

Is this supposed to "show" that you really don't know what you're talking about when it comes to Valve?

He's right though, Valve proper have not made a game since Episode 2. Though it certainly sounds like they contribute heavily to the games their purchased add-on teams make.

Isn't it semantics at that point though? It's still Valve, just Valve+ then. As long as that's better than all in-house that's not necessarily a bad thing. And Portal 2, CS:GO (no idea on that one), DOTA2 is still development at least.

Valve's next game is obviously going to be Day of Defeat 2. It's their only IP that doesn't have a part 2 yet. Valve is clearly superstitious or has triskaphobia and will not make a part '3' to any of its franchises, ever.

But fortunately there's no limit to the number of 2's that can be added to any title. No doubt we'll eventually see Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Chapter 2 Part 2 guest-starring Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

I think you would need a greater understanding of their internal politics to really say. The people who comment on them not releasing anything since Orange Box are not really wrong though, they are just acknowledging that Portal 2, Left 4 Dead and others were all developed by purchased teams.

Let's simply say: Valve is a very small developer attached to a big reseller/publisher. Therefore they are probably most competent in the field of reselling/publishing.

One thing i hate about Steam is, How you "HAVE TO" download a patch update before playing the game

shouldn't the game be already updated in the first place.

Way to necro the hell out of this thread.

The answer though is not necessarily. It's up to the devs to provide a new installer, not steam.

Well i was looking for a Steam rant related thread...and i wasn't going to start a new thread


Especially when you have to download a 3 gig update.....bleah.

undead thread! destroy the brain or remove the head!