I have a few games bought on steam, played for about 6 months but ultimately uninstalled and deleted that annoying always on steam account from my PC. A huge resource hog and the DRM is hella annoying
Bought a game off steam years ago, downloaded it, entered the activation key they sent to me in an email, server told me that the key was already in use, contacted Steam and was told that I am a pirate as the code is already registered and to not contact them again, and never did get an answer to my couple of hundred emails |(
Yeah, the biggest catalog of games at affordable prices, a pioneer in the gaming industry, the biggest gaming community on the planet, whatās not to hate amirite. Hella annoying.
Personally, I hate steam. Itās a resource hog that defaults to loading on boot.
If you buy a game on steam, you donāt need to add a code, the game is added automatically. If you buy a code from someone and itās invalid, that is not Steamās fault, nor did they steal your money.
When you buy a game from Steam directly you donāt get a key, the game is added automatically to your library. So youāre clearly doing something wrong.
10~11 years ago you got an activation key to play the game on their servers, and as they were the only servers hosting that game that meant I could not play an online game āonlineā, if that is not theft what is ??
If I sell you a key to a car, and the Department of Motor Vehicles says itās not your car, you canāt register it, did DMV rip you off? You should have gotten a new key or your money back from the person that sold you the key.
Interesting, Iāve had steam for almost 9 years never ran into any fake keys. Iāve got some 200+ games large amount from humble bundles. I played the crap out of Day of Defeat and counterstrike back in the day.
Iām not a Civ player, but it is mostly offline right? If Iām not mistaken you can run offline games without steam opening with little effort. I used to play GTA IV offline with graphic enhancements and lots of mods.