| pokoko said: You can buy some games without DRM on Amazon, those where the publisher doesn't add any themselves. I bought The Witcher 2 without DRM from Amazon, for example. Several other digital distribution services, like GoG, are the same. Steam, on the other, basically IS DRM for all games sold from there. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-15-ea-valve-took-crysis-2-off-steam-article EA wants to sell DLC from inside the game, Steam won't allow it. Look on Amazon, games like Crysis 3 are sold via download. Yes, you'd still need Origin, but how is that different from where you have to have Steam to play Portal 2? |
Waitwait....the article only mentions valve taking Crysis 2 off. You said they took all EA's stuff off. Where's the rest of it?
Personally, I'm getting fed up with having to install apps from every different provider to play their games. As I mentioned in another post, I was also pissed off with Steam when it first came. Why can't there be some kind of common interface app embedded into Windows? (Windows 8 market might be on the right track, but seriouskly, Microsoft should have done this back in the days when Steam was just getting started).
The answer to your question is, I don't intend to buy Portal 2. I haven't bought one Valve game, but when I run into the same problems, I'll let you know...
