Valve's Gabe Newell shares his thoughts on DRM

[Reasonable]

dobby985 said:

Reasonable said:
He's completely right. I simply don't buy anything that so restricts me, the paying consumer.

It's a pity even on Steam DRM is there for certain games (non-Valve) as I guess the publishers insist. Really though, it clearly doesn't limit piracy much and it for sure puts of potential customers.

Publishers need to realise DRM really is a lose/lose and be more in sync with consumer.

I think the Steam DRM is fantastic. You get features like Achievements, Anti-Cheat, Auto-Updating, and Steam Cloud. I play all my favorite games like CSS & TF2 on Steam anyway. So why not have all my games on Steam?

Steam DRM is fine, I'm talking about how certain titles sold via Steam still have their own silly DRM in them as well.  Valve should stipulate all Steam retailed games only use Steam DRM.

I love the whole Steam system, so much so I have it on 1 desktop and 3 laptops so that no matter which machine I'm using I can play my games, etc.