Steam - how get rid of it...

[ophidian]

Steam is annoying at first, until you get used to it.

There is no way to remove Steam and if a game says that you need Steam (they usually do at the back with 4pt texts), you need it for your activation. As said above, you don't need constant connection and when you need to re-install, Steam is relatively useful as you don't need to use your CDs to install / or play again.

What is bad with Steam is, once you buy a game, it is tied to your account and you cannot sell / transfer it. I have two steam accounts because of a problem happened waaaaaay back in HL 2 times, and I cannot transfer some of my games to my real account, which means I need to use them both if I wanna play.

Oh, and in some countries, Steam sometimes have issues with DNS (like OpenDNS).

The best gaming system out there is GOG.com's. You buy, you download, it never asks to be online, never asks to have an in-between program, never wants to use DRM etc.

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