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[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by Rowddy

Amen to that. I hope the Devs wake-up and stop STEAM at least for offline play.

As long as the devs get more $$ for selling their product over Steam than over the counter, and let's face it once and for all: They do, you'll likely not see a change. In fact, you'll most likely see an increase in the use of Steam and such portals, since it's a both cheaper (no boxes to produce, no CD's to print up) and more lucrative than selling the product over the counter.

The primary reason as to why 1C uses Steam is because Flightsims are probably the epitome of a niche-product. We who love flightsims, and especially on this level, are a very small minority, and in order to make a profit in this market, you need every advantage you can get. And Steam, like it or not, is an advantage for the devs.

Until that changes, they'll use it.

Originally Posted by csThor

The only way to stop that would be not to purchase any of those products who are tied to such systems at all.

And good luck with that, as those that see Steam as a good distribution-platform far outnumber those who don't.