[isamuel]

Steam doesn't even feel like DRM. The hallmark of DRM is always that there's some thing you run into that you want to do but can't: you can't play your music on THAT device, you can't convert your video to THAT format.

But the only thing I want to do with PC games is play them, and on any PC that I want to play them on. Steam lets me do that. It's copy protection, no doubt, but it's a bargain where I actually win in the exchange.

[gridspy]

The main price is waiting for steam to login and initialize before you can start loading the game.

[masklinn]

Offline mode works if you want to go faster and/or need it though. Didn't work a few years ago, but works like a charm nowadays, it's a pleasure.