ovaltineplease
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robwright :
I tend to agree with Ovaltine here, but for the sake of argument I'll play devil's advocate and throw this out:
I feel like every time Steam comes up in a piracy/DRM discussion, some Johnny-Bringdown comes along and hammers digital distribution and predicts that a day will come 5 or 10 years from now when Valve gets bought by Microsoft/EA/Whoever and Steam gets shut down and then we'll lose all the content we ever bought on Steam. While I don't think this will happen, it's obviously a concern out there for a lot of gamers and I suppose it's a big reason why a number of folks stay away from digital distribution.
I feel like every time Steam comes up in a piracy/DRM discussion, some Johnny-Bringdown comes along and hammers digital distribution and predicts that a day will come 5 or 10 years from now when Valve gets bought by Microsoft/EA/Whoever and Steam gets shut down and then we'll lose all the content we ever bought on Steam. While I don't think this will happen, it's obviously a concern out there for a lot of gamers and I suppose it's a big reason why a number of folks stay away from digital distribution.
If it were a fly by night company i'd be more concerned, but I imagine you've already anticipated this response anyways - so i'll spare you.