Comments on: Valve: Piracy is a Service Issue

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:46:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:22:00 +0000

By: Connor Behan

Connor Behan — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:21:00 +0000

I can’t say whether the advantages to steam outweigh the DRM because I’ve been out of the gaming scene for years now. The thought of there being a “big red button” is reassuring but the programmers who work for Valve in 30 years might not remember about it. Or maybe a company that buys out Valve will have a different opinion and do away with the button.

About the claim that games purchased online outlast the physical copies, I have to disagree. All my games from the 90s still work. I can install them from the CD on an infinite number of computers and I can burn the CD to even play them from all those computers at the same time. And that’s not even considering daemon tools and all the cracks out there. The burning step probably won’t work for games these days due to ROM marks on the disc. But this doesn’t include game content. Even if the data you burn is unusable without the ROM mark at the moment, it can be backed up for as long as it takes for someone to make a crack that works.

And yes, there are legitimate reasons for not always wanting a patch. Some patches change the content of games like removing shots of the World Trade Centre or naughty easter eggs.

By: Derpface

Derpface — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:53:00 +0000

ep3 is in development. ;)

By: husher5142

husher5142 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:14:00 +0000

Actually a lot of places will give u trade in credit towards new places with older games, once you’ve played them out. EB Games for one, and some of the buy back options are pretty significant. So as a new user to steam the very first thing I considered was what will happen if this company goes out of business => I cant play my games anymore. That and I’ve always been a fan of a hard copy.

By: Sumguy

Sumguy — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:47:00 +0000

Yeah nice one Gabe, now , where the Fuck is Half-Life2 Ep3? before we die?
I will buy from Steam, as I do all my games, just produced the fucker will ya before we forget what half-life is!

By: djnforce9

djnforce9 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Yeah, Valve isn’t going to disable your account on a whim. You would have had to something seriously wrong (phishing, credit card fraud, etc). The ONLY questionable practice they have is in regards to VAC. Fair enough that someone who cheats gets punished but if your account is hijacked and then the hacker cheats, the ends result is still the same and your account is tainted forever (i.e. yes you only get banned for the specific game or engine cheated on (and this only applies to VAC protected servers) but many dedicated servers auto-kicks any accounts that are VAC banned from ANYTHING including totally non-related games because there is just no way of knowing).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:45:00 +0000

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By: Mwhahaha

Mwhahaha — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:19:00 +0000

“Everyone now is connected to the internet via one form or another.”

- I’m not!

By: Taysseer Kadri

Taysseer Kadri — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:10:00 +0000

I love Valve. I love Steam. But I dont get why we can’t re-sell old games, or games we dont want anymore. Why not allow us to resell through Steam, while allowing us Steam to take a cut of the selling price?