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>>172217 Did not actually say I had a problem with DRM. >>172218 has the right idea though. It's not DRM itself that bugs, and Steam would have an advantage over other consoles in leveraging the idea that, if your profile holds across all platforms, you can take your games that you've purchased anywhere and play them anywhere else. DRM after a fashion, yes, but not such that it hampers its' games with critical flaws. I don't mind this sort of DRM so long as I have relative freedom to use the product I purchased where I please. "Always online" is a conceptual problem a lot of companies are facing now, because you are always online , it's just that not all connections or individual circumstances are created equal. I don't mind paying for my games to be held in a cloud somewhere so long as I can access those games when I want.
I'm more concerned with the moving up of release cycles to 1 year, the additions of on-disc DLC we have to pay for, and generally just the outsourced mess and seedy design decisions becoming industry standard practice. Steam may have its' rough patches but it's one of the oldest and most tested OL distribution platforms, and Valve one of the most respected developers and industry entities. I am more than willing to give them a shot, especially if they can put forth an impressive hardware rig. And even if they don't give it a shot, hell, they might win anyway, seeing as how video game consoles these days are little better than computers hooked up to your TV anyhow. My computer is hooked up to my television right now, the only thing that regularly stops me from playing steam is that I have to do manual setup on the controller for a lot of games (yeah I know my gaming wants are a bit idiosyncratic).
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