Sig-ma
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This is actually too funny for me to not post once more.
Cyanosis said:Who the fuck is trolling you?
It's a new day, you can stop crying now.
If that is all you have to add to this wonderful discussion, you're kind of answering your own question, are you not?
GreyGhost said:This is Sparta Doomworld! Discussions often get a bit boisterous here, with Steam being a popular "red flag to a bull" topic.
I know. Despite the profanities, my post was mostly in jest. I'm happy you understood that. :)
hex11 said:People don't trust Steam because they have acted badly in the past, just as PayPal and others have done. Why would anybody invest their time and money into an entity that can shut you out and deny you what you paid for at their whim? That is not a good position to be in, and that is the key issue. It makes no sense to support such services.
Odd you should use PayPal as an example. I used to use PayPal for eBay but following a bad experience, I attempt not to anymore. Many people still use it and I do not particularly care. Their computer. Their time. Their money.
Why would people use such a service? Simple. Look at the service itself and what it features. Regarding Steam, I'm not particularly worried about Steam dying. The platform will be there when I hop on later for my daily Skyrim fix, a week from now, a month from now, so forth and so on. Is is conceivable that one day it will be hacked and forced down? Absolutely. Is it conceivable a drunk may hit me head-on tomorrow? Absolutely. I have no issues with the service and some imaginable, potential boogey-man biding his time, waiting to jump out from under the bed some unknown amount of time from now isn't going to ruin my experience with it now.
Vordakk said:Not trying to speak for Grazza, but I found an article that might be of some use. One thing it notes is that certain DRM actually encourages piracy because consumers who purchase titles with DRM are often treated worse than those who simply pirate the game. I dunno if this really has any merit, and I only skimmed the article, but yeah.
I know you proclaimed you only skimmed the article but you may want to remove it if your intention is to assist Grazza's opinion. That article actually says the exact opposite of Grazza's assertion is true. Specifically, the article shows what the articles I linked also show... Steam has helped PC gaming.
Valve Corporation has a digital distribution service for the PC called Steam (Anon, A. 2010) that releases games for consumers, giving them the option of downloading titles directly to their PC instead of having to go to a local computer shop to purchase it. This is coincidental as when valve was first released the physical space that the PC games market occupied in retail stores had been slowly shrinking for years(Hook, R.B. 2009), sometimes disappearing completely, and the Steam service offered the alternative of buying any major PC game release from the comfort of home. This helped raise the sales of PC games as Steam offered competitive prices and friendly DRM, and with 25 million users they have made a big impact in software sales.
That said, Steam's "DRM" doesn't treat me badly at all. Like I've said about a dozen times now, I've never had any issues or complaints personally with the Steam service.
Cyanosis said:That's just common sense. Now if it were the other way around...
What an interesting, informative and otherwise well thought-out post. Your thesis, descriptive personal experiences with Steam and backed-up evidence are clearly too much for me to handle. I hereby denounce my liking of Steam.
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