The idea of a centralized login and "download anywhere" policy is very good value to me. The chances of Steam shutting down and irreversibly suspending my access to my entire games library in perpetuity is statistically infinitesimally less than me having all my games stored on disc and my house burning down. If any such system which requires you to authenticate your purchase to receive continued service and support constitutes "malware" then this represents virtually all commercial computer software, including Windows (insert joke about Windows = malware here). I don't feel that being asked to verify my purchases of games are legitimate via a login system is especially unreasonable, especially given the additional Value that Steam provides (sales, friends lists, community, guides, cloud saving, achievements, etc.). This is basically the same as having an installer executable.Īn integrated auto-updating platform is nice to have (and auto-updating is very important for games when they will see significant post-release support or are multiplayer games).
Steam also lets you create backup discs or archives in case you don't want to re-download games. If a game doesn't use Steam DRM, then you can copy and zip up the installed version and do whatever you want with it, forever.
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