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Originally Posted by TopCat
Steam's DRM is perfectly fine as it provides you with loads of benefits like automatic game updates
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Games featured autoupdates long before Steamworks games became common.
How does that benefit anyone and warrants implementing draconian DRM again?
Useless for anyone using offline mode. In fact, pretty much all of Steam's "benefits" are only accessable when you keep Steam online all the time, in offline mode it does nothing but punish you - and people bashed Ubisoft back when they used always-online DRM with cloud saves support, too!
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Skyrim's console versions got leaked way before the PC version because of the fact that Skyrim's a Steamworks game.
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Alan Wake is a Steamworks game and it leaked days before official release.
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Gabe Newel once said that if Steam was to close down a patch would be issued to allow for all the games to be played without the need of the client.
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He never ever officially stated anything. The story is:
supposedly, some guy
supposedly e-mailed Newell years ago and
supposedly got an answer in which Gabe "
DRM is evil and punishes customers unlike MY DRM" Newell
supposedly stated such a thing.
Of course, said mystical "patch" would only unlock games that have already been installed, boxed copies refuse to install in the first place without access to Valve's servers, so essentially discs are filled with digital paperweight.
