Comment New Thoughts About Steam / DRM (Score 1) 241
I've been thinking about it lately, because I like so many on this site... couldn't stand the thought of DRM... but I bought HL2 anyway, I bought Bioshock anyway... and I've come to this conclusion.
When I go play golf, I spend anywhere from $20 to $100 dollars for the round, depending on the course, or the season. I spend about $20 to $30 bucks in beer, and in turn, I get about 4 to 5 hours of entertainment.
With a good video game, I spend about $40 to $50, and I usually get about 16+ hours of entertainment out of it for a good single player game. With multi-player games, I get a good 300 to 500 hours of entertainment out of my $50 investment.
And in my thoughts about Steam and DRM in general, I realized all the complaints really don't apply to me, because I usually just play a game once, or play it till I get bored with it, then it goes on a bookshelf and never gets used again.
I have countless games on my bookshelf that I've played through once, and even a handful that I haven't even played at all. There's only a few that I've bothered to play a few times, or have dedicated 100's of hours to... such as
CS:S, Quake 1 2 3 and 4, a few Unreal Tournaments, a couple Battlefields and a few other games.
Anyway, my point of all this is, after giving some though to it, I really don't care if there is DRM in the game or not, seeing as how they all end up in a big pile on a bookshelf anyway.
When I go play golf, I spend anywhere from $20 to $100 dollars for the round, depending on the course, or the season. I spend about $20 to $30 bucks in beer, and in turn, I get about 4 to 5 hours of entertainment.
With a good video game, I spend about $40 to $50, and I usually get about 16+ hours of entertainment out of it for a good single player game. With multi-player games, I get a good 300 to 500 hours of entertainment out of my $50 investment.
And in my thoughts about Steam and DRM in general, I realized all the complaints really don't apply to me, because I usually just play a game once, or play it till I get bored with it, then it goes on a bookshelf and never gets used again.
I have countless games on my bookshelf that I've played through once, and even a handful that I haven't even played at all. There's only a few that I've bothered to play a few times, or have dedicated 100's of hours to... such as
CS:S, Quake 1 2 3 and 4, a few Unreal Tournaments, a couple Battlefields and a few other games.
Anyway, my point of all this is, after giving some though to it, I really don't care if there is DRM in the game or not, seeing as how they all end up in a big pile on a bookshelf anyway.
