How many steam games do you own?

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How many steam games do you own?

  • 0-25

    Votes: 16 43.2%

  • 25-50

    Votes: 11 29.7%

  • 50-100

    Votes: 5 13.5%

  • 100-200

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • 200-500

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • 500-1000

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • 1000+

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    37
If there is a game I really want, I don't wait for it to go on sale, I just buy it for whatever the price is.

If I find a game on sale that I think I might enjoy, I buy it. So I have tons of games that I bought but haven't played yet. So many $40+ games were on sale for $10-25 so I felt like I -had- to buy them.
 
I applaud steam for all the latest effort they're putting forth to making their service not only a storefront but also a modding hub, a social media and an organizational tool when it comes to gaming. They've come a long way, and even though they've proven that their service works as a digital game store, they are also trying to add more features to let different people connect and enjoy the game toghether or bring their creativity in one place to help everyone enjoy the game more.

I have a small library of games on steam, only whatever necessitated to keep up gaming with my friends. But occasional sales for good items do come in handy.
 
No one owns ANY Steam games. You basically are paying a one-time indefinite rental fee for games, you do NOT own them in any way, shape, or form. At any point it chooses, Valve can lock you out of your Steam account and you lose access to all games purchased via Steam. That said, the number of games I've actually bought via Steam would be probably 7, all of them purchased at deep discount because of the fact that Valve could up and remove access to them for me some day. I only buy games when I figure the cost is equal to or less than the value of a single playthrough. Doesn't matter how unlikely it is Valve will ever decide to lock me out of my account, they can, so I will be very sparing in the amount of money I spend via Steam.
 
Unless Steam goes out of business, or you have a problem with cheating or a hot temper where you use foul language a lot (not even sure on this one), I don't see how you can lose access to Steam.

It doesn't really bother me much anyway. I tend to not play games after my first few months with them and after a couple years away from playing a game, I often reload it only to be very disappointed with the game and will uninstall it.
 


Just so you know, you don't own any physical copies either, you own a license to use them in ways only deemed appropriate.



Team fortress 2, Black mesa and Portal 2. And portal 2 was a gift. I personally hate steam - I always try to buy retail version if there's one available.
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I sure miss retail boxes, having a physical copy has a nice feeling.
 
re: steam can take away your account

I kinda find that argument silly, let me explain:

1. steam is very unlikely to go out of business, even if valve goes bankrupt somebody else will buy them out and continue running the service.
2. getting banned from steam is very hard if you're a legit gamer. if you cheat and hack and exploit on the other hand, yeah ok, you should probably avoid Valve games. valve randomly denying you access is first of all resolveable, second is probably less likely than your house burning down with all your physical copies inside of it.
3. The only issue I would see for people not liking using steam is if they got spotty internet access and having to wait to download a game when you wish to reinstall it. (But honestly there's ways around that, and there's negatives to having a physical copy to install from as well)

So, lastly, the only problem that is factual regarding steam or any other digital distributor - you don't have a shiny box to put on a shelf. It's a problem for old school collectors, where they want the collector edition with all the extra booklets, posters, action figures and what not, to toy around a bit and then put on a shelf to be proud of it and being able to say - "there, see, I have it"
 


You can actually even do that to some extent. If you go to Steam, you can backup your games, then burn them to a CD. It comes with all the data and download with an installer. It will still require you to be linked up to Steam when installing it, but it saves you the download after the first time.

I went a step further and made my own art on the CD's using a CD label maker, using game Art I found online. So now I have nice CD's of all my Steam games.
 


There's are more reasons. For example, today I tried to launch Black Mesa from desktop shortcut, and had to wait 15 secs for steam to launch. After that, it went to "starting Black Mesa...", only to give error message 10 secs later "Cannot launch game while checking another games integrity". Apparently, it thought it was wise to check whether Team Fortress 2 was integral. Cool huh? Had to cancel the check and manually launch the game. While with non steam apps I just double click on the icon and bam I'm inside the game... And today wasn't the day it decided to update itself!
 


I'll take that over having to swap CD's, as that has to be extremely rare (I've never had that happen). I have had it where it couldn't connect to Steam, which takes about 10-15 seconds, after which it let me bypass Steam.

On the other hand, some of the CD DRM's have made me call their company multiple times to reactivate my copy, because changing a piece of hardware counts as a new install.
 


A fair and true point, which I will not dispute. It applies to virtually all software, not just games.

As for a lot of the rest. Do not mistake my intent. I am playing something of a devil's advocate, making sure that people are aware of this important little fact that is basically buried in a whole lot of legalese that most people will never read. I am quite aware of the fact that it would be counter to Valve's overarching interests to lock people out of their accounts, but it CAN happen, and basically Valve has said they can do it at any time, for any reason, and you have ZERO recourse.

While I have absolutely no expectations that it will ever happen, I do hold out a small sliver of hope that enough people will start to see the extent to which they have been slowly signing away a lot of rights to corporations, and there will be some kind of a social backlash against the worst offenders. Even were that to happen, I doubt Valve would be one of the companies really caught in the crosshairs, but I think they should be called out regarding this particular policy, same as every other company that does something similar.
 


Well, I suppose CD DRM is annoying too. I personally like Blizzard DRM: you don't need any other program or inserted CD.
 


Almost none of my Steam games are online, other than the process of validating the game on Steam (the DRM process), and if Steam is down, I can still play it. However, an MMO is always played online, which you log into. Why would there be a 2nd validation system?
 

Oh no you didn't! I love me some Diablo 3 in single player, have to be connected to blizzardserver or take a hike.

Until then blizzard games (SC1, WC2, 3) required a CD check to run the game. Not sure about SC2 as I don't own it, but probably have to be logged into Battlenet to play campaign...

But then again, how many single player only games does blizzard make?

Point is guys, Steam is a very lenient DRM out there. There's plenty of games on steam where the games install DRM on top of steam (ubisoft games being a prime example of this). Considering though that Valve doesn't own like 99% of the games they are distributing on steam, I guess Valve could really care less about strict DRM policies.

Sunius:
There's are more reasons. For example, today I tried to launch Black Mesa from desktop shortcut, and had to wait 15 secs for steam to launch. After that, it went to "starting Black Mesa...", only to give error message 10 secs later "Cannot launch game while checking another games integrity". Apparently, it thought it was wise to check whether Team Fortress 2 was integral. Cool huh? Had to cancel the check and manually launch the game. While with non steam apps I just double click on the icon and bam I'm inside the game... And today wasn't the day it decided to update itself!
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Yes, true, steam has its wimpy moments, but most of them are encountered during start-up only. Even then, nobody said it's perfect. All I'm trying to say is, if people chose not to use steam for its feature of checking for updates to the installed games on startup (a feature that you can turn off by the way) that's a really poor excuse not to take advantage of all the other FUNCTIONAL features steam brings to the table.

Like, let me point this out, you know how steam tracks your game time on various games (just like x-fire). Well, I don't know how many people are aware but you're not limited to steam only games. You can add a non-steam game for steam to track (link it to the exe that you launch) and when you're playing that game, even if it's not on Steam officially, you can launch it through steam, steam will track how much time you spend playing it and your friends on steam will be able to see which game you're playing. It's a tiny little feature seemingly, but I find that totally awesome.
 


Would there be any reason I would want myself being tracked? 😛 The non steam games added to steam begin to bug too much, I can't understand how it can be a useful feature...
 

We have a commie in our midst.
 
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