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That's got nothing to do with Steam.
You could be in the exact same situation with any game with DRM you buy, and not every game uses Windows installer, what about InstallShield? That's a third party program, and then you then a lot of the time have to use a 3rd party program to activate said game as well.
Steam doesn't activate any game through itself. If a game that you can buy on Steam needs to be activated, then it does it through the exact same activation process you'd use if you bought a physical copy of the game. Such as GTA IV. No game that Valve makes that they release on Steam has DRM at all. You install it, and play it. And can reinstall it as many times as you want.
All your arguements against Steam are all moot points as they have nothing to do with Steam as a whole, more to the developers that choose to release there games through Steam.
You will never convince those of us who hate steam to love it. Its just to much bloatware for most of us to use. Installing a normal pc game goes like this:
- Install game to games partition meaning you will never have to reinstall it
- Apply cd key
- Apply nocd
- play game with or without the disk with instant start up time
Installing a steam game goes like this:
- Install steam
- Wait for steam to load and then update
- create an acount
- install game
- apply cd key
- wait for game to update
- then receive a message that you cant play your game as the steam servers are busy
- Then when you want to ever try playing the game again wait for the bloat that is steam to load first
Steam and every other drm that iv tried just isn't for me and i avoid all the games that are only available through those systems. EA, valve etc are just losing customers by doing this.
- Steam does need to update quite frequently.
- My Half Life 2 game i bought on disk as id never heard of steam untill i tried to install it and found out about this bloatware
- How do i sell my Half Life 2 game disk?.
- Why is step 7 moot?
- Why would you want to slow down your boot up time so that an application can load at startup for games when you might not even play a game?
But anyway as you say some people like it and have helped support this drm nightmare and maybe i am in the minority. If you like it then use it but i never will.
- With windows update i have a choice of when and if im going to install them. With steam i don't have that choice.
- Yeah i was caught out with half life2.
- "You can't" I know lol, i was trying to make a point
- Yeah lots of people are lucky like that
- but it does take time
But anyway i think we have gone horribly off the topic of EA so il just says this - STEAM sucks
Well, we are all entitled to our opinions.
Steam is not exactly how I would want it, but for its purpose it works.
EA sucks.
~Lordbob
For the short time i used Steam, i had no problem with it. Worked every time i opened it