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I don’t buy games off the shelf any more anyway. As a general rule, if they’re not on Steam I don’t buy them.

Steam has much more agreeable DRM than Safedisc/SecuROM/whatever, much better ideas of users owning the property even with DRM in place, and has the simplest update system of any online CDN.

If retailers boycott Steam what will happen is they will lose business, not Steam.

Pff what games retailer stocks a decent rack of PC games these days anyway, that isnt 10 year old games like Theme Hospital for a fiver. Its the shops fault they stopped selling a wide range of PC games in the first place…

Unsurprising.

Have you been into say Game or Gamestation recently? The pc section is a teeny tiny part of the store now, usually in the back corner covered in dust.

They choose to staff their stores with dullards who don’t give a crap about games and know little about anything outside of nintendogs for ds. The few times when i have bought some things from such stores I’ve been patronized with such terms as, “This is an online game, do you have an internet connection?” and “This is the expansion, you need the original game to play this first.”

The prices are also stupid, sure you can get a decent price if you look around a bit but the big shops such as game sell things ~£5 to £10 more expensive than other places and there’s never any sign of any deals or offers.

Plus the weather here sucks and i don’t want to go outside in the rain. :)

only an idiot would walk to a shop when you can just press your mouse button like 5 times and buy a game

I remember with SecuROM, it was only possible to install the game like 3 times, and then it will become unusable or something..

Games are much cheaper in russian stores than in steam, but online stores still gives better offer (but here we need to be carefull cuz we have a lot hackers, sometimes games are bought from stolen cards and steam blocks account).

Something tells me Gabe Newell doesn’t give a shit about some Uk game retailers that make up a tiny percentage of sales .