PC Devs Abandoning Microsoft For Valve

[ssj12]

Zkuq said:

ssj12 said:

1. Here is the thing. Its all digital so obviously used games or selling your games went out the window. Its what happens when things modernize and become easier for the general user. Things must be sacrificed which I would much rather lose the ability to sell and buy used games rather then keep the ability to lose a physical disc or damage it.

2. Also lack of competition is a joke. There are at least 3 other services that offer similar to Steam and tend to have the same publishers of titles. First party titles stay exclusive and so does some 3rd party titles, but overall the majority stays open and competitive like the console market.

1. I've never lost or damaged a disc of mine. If one is careless enough to do so, he fully deserves it. Also, I'm not ready to throw my rights out of the windows no matter what everyone says.

2. This guy mentioned this as a way towards having one standard, and that standard is Steam. That's the future I don't want. Like you said, now there is competition.

1. Congrats. You have some sense of responsibility and pride. But accidents can happen and discs do rot. Any PS1 games and old PC games should have maybe another year or two before they start getting disc rot. Any physical data disc will eventually be destroyed by time.

2. Steam's competition has existed for years. Its not now since Direct-2-Drive, Impulse, and several others have existed and stayed strong for at least a decade now. Just because you haven't heard of these doesn't mean they dont exist and that they dont have decent sized user bases ranging into the millions of users each.