

That is what Steam is all about and I was completely ignoring it for years even though it was on most of my PCs so I could play Team Fortress 2.

What the world needed was a service where I could buy a game once and never have to worry about losing the physical media or my rights to play it ever again. Either buying a game retail from Amazon required me to wait for it to ship or I had to drive to Best Buy. Those of us that download games understand this limitation. Most pirated games do not allow for multiplayer as the game often has to connect to an official server where its legitimacy can easily be verified by some sort of authentication service. Skyrim Creation Kitīesides the moral issue of stealing, the primary reason people buy games retail is for the multiplayer modes. The files download as fast as my cable modem allows and I have the full game with simple cracking instructions a few minutes later. Note: A reader sent us this interesting take on Steam and DRM, but requested to stay anonymous due to the nature of the article.
