Reflex Gamer: The Magazine: The Blog II » Steam http://zine.reflexgamer.net Sun, 09 May 2010 22:01:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 I didn’t want to have to do this… http://zine.reflexgamer.net/2010/03/i-didnt-want-to-have-to-do-this/ http://zine.reflexgamer.net/2010/03/i-didnt-want-to-have-to-do-this/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:51 +0000 Vance http://zine.reflexgamer.net/?p=885 Okay, I’m pissed at Steam. You should be too. Remember when Gabe Newell was promising that this would lower to cost of games to the user? Well, aside from sales, I just see Valve pocketing the difference and ordering a few dozen more turkeys to be delivered to Newell’s door.

As a seller, I don’t want to sell items that require you to go through a third party service exclusive to one company which monitors your computer. If they want to sell that on Steam and slow down your computer, fine. If they want me to sell you something that forces you to use their service, fuck them. They’ve been openly hostile to retailers and I won’t list any games that require the user to use Steam, and now Square is helping them? Supreme Commander 2 is just a watered down version of the first game, anyway.

Except…

Well, cracks and workarounds. I’ll relist individual games as I find or get sent files that I can post to the game entries. If you have one, e-mail it to me and I’ll inspect the code. As long as it’s clean, I’ll relist the game.

That’s right, let’s combat piracy by punishing people who pay for their games… fucking hell.

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