What's Wrong With Steam?

Everything has someone to complaining about it. There are even detractors to the whole buy the disks and owning them.

You don't want this conversation. Just read the old posts if you want, but this will thread will degenerate and probably get locked if it becomes a serious discussion.

Why I dont like steam?

Lets see:

• Third party software that need to be running in the background, increasing game launch time and consuming CPU, RAM and HDD ressources.
  
  
• Third party software of doubtful respect for privacy. That there is worse software on the market does not make it any better.
  
  
• Loss of all rights to the product. The service may CEASE TO EXIST AT ANY TIME. Leaving you with NOTHING.
  
  THE PATCH LIE: If Steam dies tomorow, most modern games no doubt will get a patch that makes them work without steam. However ANY GAME OLDER THAN 1 YEAR THAT WAS NOT A HUGE SUCCESS MAY NOT RECEIVE SUCH A PATCH. Actually the Developlers might be bankrupt in the mean time. The older the game the larger this problem. That leaves you with a a crack, that somebody has to create first. If somebody does bother, of course. Now, in reality there is probably a crack anyway, but is it really good if you just can play your games because of people pirating it???
  
  
• Increased risk of loss. No doubt, sometimes you will loose the CD of a game, too. But then it is one game. However if you loose your steam account, to what reasons ever, all your games are gone. Seing that many people have spent half a fortune on those games.
  
  
• You cannot sell used games.
  
  
• You cannot ask for refunds
  
  
• Steam prices more expensive sometimes
  
  
• Sometimes you are forced to play to crappy localized version of your game, instead of having the good original voice acting.

I will tolerate Steam for fantastic games.

For just very good or good games that force me to use Steam.... expect no money from me.... EVER.

I also reserve the right to insure myself against a Steam service termination - by any means necessary.

For most general users, there's nothing 'wrong' with the service (though I could certainly see pricing discepancies for other regions being a little annoying).  There are just a number of people out there that care about things that your average game-player doesn't. 

For example, in the above post, it's never been worth my time to sell used PC games and frankly I'll be a little depressed if I'm playing the same obscure games on a PC-style device 20 years from now.  There's a legitimate concern behind each of those bullet points but for my part, based on my gaming habits, none of them bother me in the slightest.  Obviously, mileage will vary.

all right.