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Originally Posted by Requiem
lolllllllll
his reasons basically consist of doubt, and bad memory. the fact that he doesn't know if he will have access to his email account is just hilarious. I have had the same email for 7 or 8 years now. i use it for everything related to account sign-ups, etc.. it is a gmail account. i don't think it will go anywhere for the next 20 years. honestly.. i feel it will still be there 20 years from now because it is google, and there is no way google is going anywhere. i have a 2nd email that i use for personal stuff, which i've had for 2 years. since i began using the internet, i have only stopped using -2- email addresses. the first, was a hotmail account that i stopped using because the email itself was just dumb. i also hated hotmail. the 2nd, was through a provider i knew was temporary because it was through a friend's hosting service.
how do you have that much of a problem with emails that you are worried you'll lose access to it? set up 2, each with a different password. link them to one another so that if you forget the PW of one, you can send it to the other. and if you somehow forget both, then you've got much bigger problems in your mind to deal with.
i find it kind of funny how a lot of people's reason for disliking steam involves 'well i dont actually own the game.. steam does'.
why is steam going to take away your access to it? are you really just that untrusting? what would they possibly have to gain from taking away someone's access to a game they paid for? why is this a reason for disliking the platform? what reason have they given you to think that you will one day no longer have access to the games you bought.
like it or not, this is the future, like Destor said.
just can't believe anyone would choose a hard format to take up space (it's not a matter of if you have the room.. it's a matter of useless formats sitting there doing nothing 99% of the time) when they could just install a single program and reinstall almost all of their game collection at once.
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Because there is no way to lose an email without losing a password to it, oh wait, I lost an email account because someone hacked it and changed the pass, damn, must've been my imagination.
I prefer having a hard copy with access available at all time. What if I had no internet and wanted to play all of my steamworks only games? Oh wait, I couldn't do that because I'd need to log into my steam account.
I dont care if its the future or not. Just because something is "the future' doesnt mean its better. I mean, its great for publishers because they dont have to spend any money making packaging for the game and rake in bigger profits, but its bad for the people who ENJOY having a hard copy of their game.
Really, if they had an option where a steam game was $49.99 and a hard copy was $69.99, I'd pay the premium just to avoid dealing with Steam. And you may laugh all you want, but eventually they will make you pay hourly fees for ALL games you play when everything is distributed through digital services only.
Why would steam want to take away your access to it?
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Why not? Lets start charging all our steam users a fee for using the service!
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Do you use email Pintint? Or when they stopped mailing actual letters did you just stop?
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I use email, but I still mail physical letters for certain things from time to time.
Of course I am old fashioned and its also personal preference. When I buy a hard copy of a game, I feel that I "bought" something. If I buy a digital copy, I feel like I paid money for nothing. Not to mention I like having a paper manual and a box with box art to display on my shelf. I like the old school large PC game boxes better then the half assed DVD boxes they use now as well.
If it comes to a point where I either pay to download a game through steam, I will either stop playing altogether or pirate.