leet_x1337 said:
I've played a lot of old games. I have a GoG account. Most of them, coming from a modern perspective, really aren't that great. Being only able to select 12 units in Starcraft or no in-game tutorial in Heroes of Might and Magic 3 are all well and good if you grew up with them, but trying to play them now with no prior experience, it's no wonder more people don't use GoG. And besides, Steam has worked out a lot of its problems - I've never had issues with offline mode, you can actually install games off the disc if you bought it hardcopy and Valve aren't prone to random bans - and when you do get banned from VAC servers, it doesn't lock you out of all your games.
Sure, it's DRM, but in today's industry you can't go anywhere without finding it, and having no nostalgia goggles, it's just something we live with. Don't cut your nose off to spite your face.
Most of my old games are on consoles (or emulated consoles) and they still serve me just fine. Steam has NOT addressed the SINGLE problem that will keep me from buying from them. As long as their TOS says that they can remove my access to games I have legitimately purchased, I will NOT purchase any games from them, or that requires connecting to them. And I'm not talking about VAC servers, since 99.9% of the time, I don't give a damn about multiplayer anyway. I'm talking about the steam account itself.
That's just a non-option. Period. It doesn't matter if they're "Not prone to random bans." Rule #1 of business contracts is "if a contract gives a party the right to do something, assume they will do it."
You can call it "cutting off my nose to spite my face." I call it standing up for myself and not paying for the privilege of being treated like their *****. It's bad enough that the law's been corrupted to the point where corporations can pull this sort of thing "because we said so," but there's no way in hell I'm going to support it with my money for something as pointless as a video game.
Sometimes there are more important issues to consider besides playing the latest and greatest. If that means that I stop being a customer for the entire industry, then so be it.