Valve’s head honcho Gabe Newell isn’t exactly the biggest fan of DRM. In a recent correspondence with a concerned customer, Newell called modern DRM protection strategies “dumb” and opined that the goal of the developer shouldn’t be to restrict, but rather make games more available to the consumer. Without saying it, Newell expressed that Steam (go figure) is one of the best methods of both protecting and ensuring playability with consumers.
From the letter:
As far as DRM goes, most DRM strategies are just dumb. The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value (make it easy for me to play my games whenever and wherever I want to), not by decreasing the value of a product (maybe I'll be able to play my game and maybe I won't).
Newell went on to say that Valve discourages other publishers and developers from using “broken DRM offerings,” but added that there is a “groundswell to abandon [these] approaches.” This e-mail is a little catty towards EA, specifically because Newell was addressing the consumer's apprehension of EA’s DRM protection scheme and it crossing over to
Left 4 Dead. Of course, Newell said that EA is merely a partner, not necessarily Valve’s new grand overlord.
[via Game Politics]
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7:41 PM on 12.02.2008
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True story.
Gabe is the shit though, Steam is PERFECT, at least DRM wise.
Pictured: Gabe Newell
LULZ CAUSE HE'S FAT!!!
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/unangbangkay/steam-drm-and-you-how-much-are-you-giving-up--111609.phtml
I'm just bothered by the new industry standard of limited installs. I've reinstalled CoD 4 at least 4 times in the past year alone. Limited installs would screw me over big time. I have yet to buy any title that does this. I was really looking forward to Red Alert 3 as well.
Fsck you, EA!
Yeah, I'm still angry about Valve's total lack of support for the PS3. I prefer a controller to a keyboard and mouse any day.
Yes, I heart them.
last i check valve makes the majority of there just off the pc side of gaming.
Although I must give props to Steam for allowing its customers to use the items that they purchase, it is awfully swell of them to be so kind.
In other words, just because the 'age of owning media' is nearly over, we DON"T HAVE TO BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!!!
Valve games on Steam = Good for PC gaming
I wouldn't trade them anyways, because they are pretty much guaranteed keepers. Other games on Steam... not so much. But maybe thats just me. *shrug*
I'd hate to see a mass movement of games going online only, because I enjoy Gamefly and being able to 'rent' games that are not worth buying. I don't think it will ever happen, but they can sure try! I see what EA is doing with DLC these days...
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