Quote Originally Posted by BoaConstrictor View Post
There is nothing that interests me on steam. Also I am not paying money to rent a game. When all games go to digital distribution like Steam (if that is indeed "the future") is the day when I stop playing games. Just because everybody else marches into being ripped off with a smile on their face, I am not giving up my rights. I am not going to pay money for air. In fact, Steam has made me see pirates as benevolent. I would rather have pirating and pirates flourish because the developers who push you to use their services to buy games rather than own a physical copy, deserve nothing but piracy of their product. They are already forcing you to pay money for something you do not own.

I am not in a hole. Just because you and the rest of the people have been led to believe that digital distribution is the greatest thing since the invention of computers doesnt mean I am in a "hole". It just means that like so often in life, I am on the opposite side of the majority because I can think for myself and not "follow the leader".

This is true, I feel so terrible for "renting" Aquaria a year and a half ago for $15.99. I mean, if Valve went out of business and shut down Steam tomorrow, and went back on their word about releasing a patch to remove the server checks, and I deleted the game from my hard drive, and I didn't use the DVD backup feature that is built in to Steam to store all my content on an actual disc, then I would have been paying a whole $.02 a day to be able to play that game any time I want on any computer that has an internet connection! What a massive ripoff! I feel so cheated!

Oh why oh why did I buy all those games for less than $1.50 each! Why did I support all those indie developers that have no other outlet for their games!

I guess I'm just a sheep that can't think for myself because I like to buy downloadable games at a fraction of retail that I can back up to a physical disk. And what's with the excellent friend/messaging system, and the server side saved games that I can pull up anywhere? It sounds like such a terrible idea, I can't believe I ever fell for it.