Digital, is it really worth the aggravation?

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torok said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Well firstly, Valve says they will send out patches and what not to make sure the games don't rely on steam if something like that were to happen. Secondly, the drm on steam is optional and it is up to the developers on whether or not they want to use the DRM. There are many games on steam but granted are the minority which do not use steam drm but are still sold through steam. I do agree that DRM is nonsense tho.

The promise of patching games is just something they said on interviews. It isn't on their terms of use, so it's an empty promise. I'm not even sure if they would be legally allowed to do so or if it would depend on a per-publisher agreement. So it's far from guaranteed.

As you said, the absolutely majority of games use it. As it is up to publishers, it means that once again your choice was ignored and publishers will decide what you can do with your original copies.

Yea well it really comes down to whether or not a person will trust Valve to keep their promise. I for one do trust Valve enough to do something with it because if a company uses Valve's own DRM in their game and Valve is saying they will patch it, I think it's pretty safe to assume that Valve has all the legalities checked. The question really comes into play when people buy games from steam which uses third party DRMs such as Uplay.

I do agree with the second part though. But it's not like buying physical would result in the perfect option either since the state in which many games launch in isn't exactly that good considering how many games these days have day 1 patches and etc to resolve many of the bugs and what not. So if the servers do go down, I'd say majority of physical will also have issues but granted you should be able to at least play the game depending on the bug.