[denkmoon]

There are definitely steam exclusive titles. Just like how people get upset now when they buy a physical copy of a game and it's just a license to download from the eshop, Steam did this first. I have a bunch of physical pc games that just include the steam installer.

[denimnerd42]

yeah this was big drama with Half Life 2. You bought the game and then had to wait hours and hours to download it on steam.

[majewsky]

I vividly remember game journalists writing angry columns on how Steam will be gone in a year because it's just too inconvenient. :)

[denimnerd42]

while that may not have been true I certainly didn't buy another steam game until I was on college broadband 3 or 4 years later