Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Oh no, you did NOT just diss my harware!

[quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="WITTGENSTEIN"]If you weren't such a cheapass about your hardware and deleted your pornography stash, you could fit every single Schmup on the Steam store onto your hard drive and run it in offline mode forever.[/quote] I like how you're trying to jab me with something personal but the best you could come up with is, "You... you... you once said you've got porn on your computer!" That's another advantage of not publishing your life on the net. Here's <A HREF="http://www.dwahan.net/Marsbound/cloudphobia/index_e.html" TARGET="new">my idea of the perfect way to sell your shmup</A>. You send a paypal payment to the developer, you get a link to DL the installation exe. DONE. The developer gets maximum money for his product per sale, at the price he wants, I get a file I can burn onto a disk and it's mine forever. I can even run this windows program on my windows machine without using a frontend! Not even a frontend in "offline mode." Back when World of Goo was nearing release, I was following the development blog and was happy when the developers announced they'd be distributing their game in the form of a DRM-free install file. However, the comments section of that post was crawling with people saying, "can you PLEASE put the game on Steam???" "If I buy now, will I get a Steam code once you're released on Steam?" "Oh please, please put the game on Steeeeeeem!" <U>That's</U> the connection to the Louis CK clip. Why is it whenever a game is about to come out in the best possible form for the customer, people start begging developers to give them the inferior option? Just because it's popular? What is the advantage to you, the customer of running your games through steam when the DRM-free option is available?[/quote]