Poll regarding Steam users

[David603]

Originally Posted by Hellfire257

Nobody said I wouldn't be buying it. Several regular Il2 players I know will not be buying it. Steam is a corporate monster. So much so that game stores have protested over not buying games which require Steamworks. You're feeding something that will eventually dominate the market. Once that happens, the price you pay to "own" your games is in their hands.

Game stores protested because Steam was going to sell PC games for less than the RRP, while still giving several times as much money to the developers of the games per sale. Said game stores threatened to stop stocking games that use Steam unless Steam was forced to keep selling games at RRP. If Steam had their way we would able to buy games at considerably cheaper prices.

Also, the game stores rake off around 60% of the price you pay in-store for each game.