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twesterm on 14 March 2011
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CDiablo said:
twesterm said:
Zlejedi said:

Steam is also extremly restrictive DRM system but at least if you are paying 5-10 euros per game it won't hurt badly if you lose access to it.


I'm confused, how is Steam restrictive?


As said before you dont own the game.......and as I stated before I barely sell games, but I would like to 1) Have the option to sell if Im in a pinch(even $5 is better than nothing) 2) give away the game to a loving user.  Another problem I have (as stated before) is that with one game purchase you get 1 set of stats. In Battlefield: BC2 I can have a character with my own stats. If my friend wants to have his own stats he can create a character as well. This is not possible with games like say Team Fortress 2 or Black Ops. You must buy another copy of the game.  Last problem is I cant have 2 games running online at once. Again if anyone with friends or family has 2 computers and one wants to play Team Fortress and the other wants to play Dawn of war they are SOL unless they buy another copy registered to another steam account.

1. When you put down $60 for a game, you aren't buying the content on the disc or the content you download, you're buying a license to use that content.  You don't own any of that content.  That isn't a Steam thing, that's just how it is.  You can sell that license but people don't have to buy it.

2.  It isn't a Steam thing not being able to sell a game, it's a PC game thing.  You haven't been able to buy used recent PC games for years.

3.  The multiple users isn't a Steam problem, that's a game problem.  If Valve wanted to they could very much allow mulitple TF2 profiles, Steam isn't stopping it.

4. You can't have two copies of the same TF2 running at a time because you only have one license.  If you and another person both want to play the game, both have to buy the game.  I'm not sure why you're confused about that.  IF you're talking about playing two different games at once on the same account, you can do that.  I just booted up Beyond Good and Evil and Dragon Age (both bought off Steam) and had no problems.

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And if you're worried about playing on two different computers at the same time with the same account, meh.  Either have one play something offline or get over it.  It isn't that big of a deal. 

If that's your only real problem, I hardly call that extremely restrictive.