CodenameD 2013-07-10 03:29:46

Nice to read your article.

Yes, I was forced to use Steam like you, when I discovered one of favoured games wouldn't have DRM any other way, but steam-works. Now you were on a vacation when you had a shitty internet connection but the country I'm from, you'd have to sell your liver and kidneys to afford
anything decent over 1 MBps and a download limit of 6 GBs. Cross that limit and you're back to KBps in their 20s!

A piss poor place like this didn't stop me from becoming a gamer who enjoys various genres of video-games. Until Steam showed up and assumed I live in America with over 16MBps broadband connections! I wouldn't care less if most modern PC game were not on Steam. Sadly that's not the case.

To make matters worse, Steam chooses to download over 8 Gigs EVEN if I have a retail disc of the game worth the same 8 Gigs of data. There's a workaround but somehow the Steam client assumes by default it can feel free to download the entire game over my shitty internet, even when I have the DVD! If it's your job to authenticate the game then just do that and DON'T FREAKKIN' DOWNLOAD!

Then comes that part you can't ignore: Steam updates the game even if it's single player. I don't buy Multi-player games that doesn't have a LAN but the way Steam treats my single-player only games like some games that will get me banned if I exploit a glitch even, is cruel.

Yes you can go offline mode. But what's the point if you spend half-a-day online waiting for the damn thing to update, all the while you can't play any other
game on steam?

Now I only buy those games which are DRM free, or a less harassing DRM on a retail Disc. And if one of my favourite games are steam only, I consider pirating it.