Steam vs PC-DVD

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by yellonet

Sure, there are some benefits, but don't believe for one minute that the service is created for the consumer, most of the benefits obviously belong to Valve and the publishers of the games to maintain control over their product even after you've bought it.
And that is not in no way in service of the consumer.

I imagine that the anticheat, content/patch distribution system, worldwide sales, anti-piracy (serial check), online chat and voice, etc... that Steam provides is quite an incentive for a developer to use Steam.

Originally Posted by Tuba2

Plus their asking price is way too high for a program that is essentially only rented and can only be run with permission and be terminated at the whim of a third party (Steam).

Look through the license of just about any videogame you've bought in the last year and see how many you own (usually 0 unless you are into open source stuff) versus how many you've been licensed (generally all recent pay videogames). It seems to be the way things have bean heading for a long time...