Jackleope

Add online multiplayer that works and I'll be all over it.

@Grimbear13
I hear you, but many do not think like that.

CD Projekt can probably get away with it since they make single player games, but I would hope they aren't naive enough to think people are going to buy their game out of good will.

I wish them the best. I bought Witcher 2 even though I absolutely hate it just to support their stance. I don't want to see them get burned.

Sounds great in theory. Sadly though, you need only look to Stardock to see that this could be a terrible idea. http://kotaku.com/5215528/demigod-18000-customers-100000-pirates-%5Bupdate%5D

@Imdavid
I don't understand where the hate is coming from. I've had my Samsung Focus since launch and it has been fantastic.

There is a huge variety of different games and there are very few that are priced more than five dollars total and the greater majority are under three bucks. I don't know how much those games are priced on other OS's, but I'd gladly pay a couple bucks for having the games tied to my Live gamer tag so that I have a reason to actually finish them. Having a trial version of every game that can easily be upgraded is awesome as well.

I could go on about it, but honestly, I don't care enough. To each their own.

@seclusion
Cheap demographics data.

I've leveled in quite a few static groups over the years. Less lately since modern MMO's tend to focus more on solo leveling and I have less free time since leaving college.

It's definitely a challenge to keep the group together whenever various people have outside responsibilities that keep them away from the game from time to time. Many of the more group based MMO's have systems that help out with that. Vanguard's fellowship system is probably the best implementation I've seen. City of Heroes did it fairly well too by making grouping with different levels fairly trivial.

@Doublethink
I'm talking about buying a game through retail and not being able to install it without logging into Steam. That's not a problem with digital distribution, that is DRM, and the first game I ever had that happen to me with was Half-life 2. Considering that I was in college at the time and our dormitories had awful internet that was down for weeks at a time, I couldn't play the *single player* game I had purchased for nearly two weeks. Sorry, but that is unforgivable and I will forever have that stick up my ass in regards to Steam and Valve.

The Kool-Aid analogy is referencing a mass suicide whenever a group of people all drink poisonous drink at the same time because they think they'll all meet up in a fabulous afterlife. I think you can figure out what I was going for there.

@Esposch
I agree, the kool-aid tastes good. But it's still poisonous. You can't install games without being connected to the internet. You can't play games without logging into steam first. That is always-on DRM. It's awful, plain and simple, and no amount of icing on this turd is going to make it any better.

@arrrgh
Seriously, it's a choice between two evils. Either way you get always on DRM which, in my opinion, is the worst thing to ever happen to PC gaming. Steam did it first and made it popular, so I hate them more. Yet for some reason people still defend it.

@drunkingamebar
"Valve announced its Steam service has approximately 40 million users as of mid-January 2012"

Approximately 40 million. They're the same thing. The sooner you realize that, the happier you'll be.