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Oh no, you did NOT just diss my harware! by Mischief Maker 07/24/2011, 5:57pm PDT
WITTGENSTEIN wrote:

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.


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 my idea of the perfect way to sell your shmup. 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!"

That's 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?
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Louis CK unintentionally sums up my feelings about Steam by Mischief Maker 07/10/2011, 9:41pm PDT NEW
    GooglePlus by col.schickn 07/24/2011, 11:52am PDT NEW
        Re: GooglePlus by Lizard_King 07/26/2011, 7:37pm PDT NEW
    Except you don't have to access Steam to play your games, just to download them by WITTGENSTEIN 07/24/2011, 3:36pm PDT NEW
        Oh no, you did NOT just diss my harware! by Mischief Maker 07/24/2011, 5:57pm PDT NEW
            It's almost like people have different preferences! NT by WoaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH 07/24/2011, 6:23pm PDT NEW
                Take that faggot shit to poe. by Mischief Maker 07/24/2011, 7:00pm PDT NEW
            Re: Oh no, you did NOT just diss my harware! by WITTGENSTEIN 07/24/2011, 7:01pm PDT NEW
                I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm going to jump in anyway. by Jerry Whorebach 07/24/2011, 7:55pm PDT NEW
                    Ah yes, R-Type and the OpenROM movement. by Fussbett 07/25/2011, 11:23am PDT NEW
                        Believe me, I'm not worried about Steam AT ALL. by Jerry Whorebach 07/25/2011, 12:18pm PDT NEW
                            I think you can still download and play CS 1.5 all you want without Steam. NT by Fussbett 07/26/2011, 8:03am PDT NEW
                                Well that's good news, if a little late in coming. Cheers to the Dutch(?) NT by hackers who made it possible. 07/26/2011, 11:30am PDT NEW
            Here's the real reason by Fullofkittens 07/24/2011, 9:09pm PDT NEW
                This by Rafiki 07/25/2011, 6:29am PDT NEW
                    I forgot about this one, too. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2011, 2:56pm PDT NEW
                        I was trying to make it 103. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2011, 7:03pm PDT NEW
                            So were you cited for stalking Gabe Newell? I thought it was a traffic ticket NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/26/2011, 7:16pm PDT NEW
                                Looks like somebody discovered court record websites. by Mischief Maker 07/26/2011, 10:35pm PDT NEW
                                    No, I tweeted about it earlier. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2011, 11:21pm PDT NEW
                                    As Jonesy pointed out, you are an incredibly stupid cocksucker NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/27/2011, 5:32am PDT NEW
                                        That is not what I was pointing out. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/27/2011, 7:12am PDT NEW
                                        Re: As Jonesy pointed out, you are an incredibly stupid cocksucker by Mischief Maker 07/27/2011, 8:34am PDT NEW
                                            Come on, everybody loves hearing ICJ relate stories from his personal life. by Bert Raccoon 07/27/2011, 9:22am PDT NEW
                                            I can't endorse this either because I also like WITTG'R by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/27/2011, 11:11am PDT NEW
                                                Re: I can't endorse this either because I also like WITTG'R by Mischief Maker 07/28/2011, 12:57am PDT NEW
                    So Steam is like buying a Dell and DRM-free is like building your own computer. by Mischief Maker 07/28/2011, 12:19am PDT NEW
                        Lamer than Wittgensteins' porn jab NT by laudablepuss 07/28/2011, 1:00pm PDT NEW
                        The former 2 dont support Linux? NT by Steam wins 07/28/2011, 2:13pm PDT NEW
            PRO: Steam friends list makes it easy to multiplay with pals. NT by Last 07/25/2011, 5:05am PDT NEW
                It's like you don't EVEN care if someone knows you're playing a game. NT by Fussbett 07/25/2011, 11:24am PDT NEW
 
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