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darkknight109 posted...

It's tying an overwhelming portion of the PC gaming market to a single DRM system linked to a single company.

When Steam dies - and eventually it will, whether that's tomorrow or 50 years from now - it will take thousands of games with it.

I mean, how many games are really going to be "taken down" when Steam dies? Or I should say, how many worthwhile games - of course it will probably be thousands, but Steam is loaded with bad indie shovelware that nobody cares about, or decent games that people have in their library and aren't playing anyway. The major titles on there are usually still part of the retail market. So people might have to re-buy them, but they won't exactly disappear off the face of the earth. I know Steam is usually cheaper, but I guess not having full ownership is a sacrifice people have decided to make to save money in the short-term (and long-term as of now, since there's no sign of Steam ending).