Steam was considered an abomination when it was released. Drm and a launcher to run HL2? GTFO.

Yet here we are where everyone loves Steam. Its no surprise other companies wanted to follow knowing that in 20 years, a horrible consumer policy could become beloved.

Do you even use steam? There is reason why its so loved. Everything else they bring is good enough price for me for steam being a launcher and drm.

Only problem I have with steam is worrying what will happen if valve goes bad or disappears in the future. But I hope it has sunk in to them by now that they will get much more money by being customer friendly and nice instead of being pieces of shit like some of the competition. I still hope that gog will become good competitor to steam.

Steam will stop working in Windows 7 from the 1st of January.

So decades of games that run perfectly fine on older computers (some lauched as little as a couple of years ago) will stop working if you got them on Steam.

Meanwhile in GOG you can get offline installers which will keep on working forever and ever in the hardware and software the game is compatible with.