Many times people ask, why does someone dislike Steam?
Rant mode on.
Here's my bit, directly from Steam EULA:
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Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a limited, terminable, non-exclusive license and right to use the Software for your personal use
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Meaning: Valve can take any game off their servers anyday, and you don't have any say in it. No more of that game for you.
This, combined with the fact that no company lasts forever, is why I'm against Steam. I like to play old games, something of a nostalgic I am.
Let's say, that after 20 years from now I'd like, in a whim of nostalgia, to play a little bit of that old flight sim, IL-2 CoD. But wait... oh.. they have taken it off from their servers as it was played so little.. OR .. oh.. Valve went bankrupt 10 years ago. Nostalgia moment ruined.
Optimist would say: 1C would likely to make a non-Steam patch for it.
I ask: Would they, for a 20 year old, (almost)forgotten game?
I would like to like Steam. It's a great idea (apart from the license part), it works great, but for how long?
Thusfar I have dared to buy one license(you don't own the game), ArmA2, from Steam, as it was so cheap on the Xmas sale, and I'm not so emotionally attached to it as I am to the IL-2 series. So, if the Steam servers would be shut down tomorrow, it wouldn't ruin my life.
Rant mode off.
-Untamo