Foamer said:
The installs are 'forced' because the publisher has chosen to use Steamworks, which offers a whole shitload of free services saving them development money and adding value for customers. Valve sells GfWL enabled games on Steam without crapping themselves that users are going to be installing the GfWL client and being exposed to Games on Demand. Again, if retailers are so bothered that customers are going to be seduced by Steam, then they need to come up with more compelling offerings or get out of the way as they're starting to look like dinosaurs. |
Yes, advertisement service. You do notice that every single time you start steam, there will be a lot of ads on your screen. If you like those ads, that is fine. I just don't like when a paying customer is forced to install adware on their computers.
But since you seem to know that those installs aren't forced, you might be able to tell me this:
If I buy a game from retal which has some sort of steam crap on it, do I have to install and register the steam ad service? If I don't want to install it, can I play the game? Can I sell the game or is it locked to steam account?
