Poll regarding Steam users

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Originally Posted by Gimpymoo

Steam is great.

Hundreds of games in my library.

Discs are for old people who dont have an internet connection.

It's also now a monopoly, and there should be other means to authenticate besides Steam. At least one other competitor's servers should be an available option. To keep competition going.

(no one is talking about having to use discs or not, the issue is business ethics)

Edit: The thing that people should realize is with STEAM authentication forced even for SP, you no longer own a game, you own a SUBSCRIPTION TO A GAME ONLY. Meaning that when Valve stops supporting the game title or goes bottom up, you don't have a game to play legally. Therefore in my opinion anything being _forced_ to use STEAM should be provided at a very low cost to the end user as it's a temporary use agreement.