That sounds like a sensible approach. From the way your other post was written the scale was unclear, and it's a usage pattern that should be used with care on SSDs.

I second that. There are so many factors like how often you add/remove new games, how large they are, your particular SSDs stats, other use etc, that any guesstimate won't be very acurate. Check the SSD drive again after a month or two and see what the actual impact on your drive is. Even if your drive is old and/or of lower quality, a couple of months of heavy usage won't kill it.

Am i the only one who keeps seeing the "EULA Agreement" every time i restart my Steam?

I boycott STEAM since the beginning.
Maybe not for the most common reason, because i could live with drm and do it on other games.
i just strictly refuse to agree to STEAM's "statistics function" for free - spyware is spyware it doesn't matter how you name it.

Never bought a game that would force me to install steamworks, except borderlands 2 because the online shop i bought it didn't that it would require steamworks and i asumed it would be like the frist part - i threw it directly to the garbage bin in an act of rage, still foiled and everything.

I didn't ever in my entire life steal (illegaly download / make an unauthorized copy) of a game that didn't force to use a STEAM account or Starforce - and i grew up with floppy discs.
But as long as my country doesn't change it's very tolerant laws regarding downloading, i surely will play every of that offline games that please me, without restrictions

I just hope that more developers will jump on the gog wagon. i love the service, but it's a pity that most of the games are games that i own already in hard form and played that when they where new. now many of them just want to make me tear my eyes out.

Basically all of my favorite online fpp are steamworks exclusives: Red Orchestra 2/ Rising Storm, Primal Carnage, Chivalry, Mount and Blade, Natural Selection 2, Day of Defeat, etc. etc. so I could never dream of boycotting steam.

With that said, I try to buy my steam keys from gamersgate and bundle sites but anything released on gog has priority.

Current Steam Games: 0. And it's going to stay that way.

I'm back tooycotting them, which makes the current humble bundle rather painful as it looks quite good. But, being Steam only, I'm not buying in.

I don´t boycott Steam games. I am using Steam for almost 10 years now and it would just make no sense to avoid all the games that only work with Steam running. I could not play a lot of games I already own and pretty much every major game and lots of smaller productions come with Steam protection. And I am already completely boycotting Ubisoft and €A games, so I would miss a lot of games.

But I usually refuse to buy games directly through Steam. Sure, I still relent sometimes. When I can get XCom: Enemy Unknown with all DLC for less than 9 €, for instance. Steam always was a tool to conduct business, but it also was something innovative, I even would say they broke some ground.

But by now the have turned into something different. I absolutely hate it how Valve is shoveling out "features" that only serve one purpose, namely making even more money. Valve is a business with one goal - making money. There is nothing wrong with this, but the way they are ignoring their customers, while working on money-making features definitely is.

I hate the "No communication with customers. Ever." rule they seemingly have in effect. I hate it how they ignore reasonable requests for reasonable features or fixes. I hate how they are trying to force people into using their new forums, which are only running in their shitty browser. Oh, and I absolutely hate that shitty browser which comes with their shitty client. And I hate that shitty client.


Just one example. I am very short sighted and reading small fonts strains me a lot. Yet the Steam client comes with so tiny fonts I barely can read anything. And in addition they decided to use grey fonts on a black background, hell yeah. I can´t read the description of the games in the shop, I can´t read anything on Greenlight and I am BEGGING for bogger or scalable fonts for years now. And what is Valve doing? Making hats for Team Fortress, introducing a reputation system that rewards people for buying cards and not customer loyalty and creating Big Picture that only works with 360 controllers. Why the hell should I pay money for games whoses description I can´t even read?

In my opinion Valve/Steam turns more and more into €A/Origin.

I'm not on an active boycott of Steam games, but it is certainly the last option I'll resort to when it comes to buying a game. Because most publishers insist on using Steam as a leash, it's pretty much resulted in me buying very few games for the PC now. Almost all of my major gaming purchases this year have been for the PS3 or Wii U. Most of the stuff I buy for PC has been from indie bundles or off GOG.

For me to buy a game on Steam, it has to be (a) extremely cheap - €5 or less, (b) something I really, really want and cannot get DRM-free elsewhere and (c) not available as a retail version on consoles.

When you have a PS3 and Wii U and can get over this bizarre PC master race superiority complex that graphics have to be 1080p 60fps, you'd be amazed how easy it is to not miss any games on Steam.

I've been using Steam for a little over five years, and I like it well enough. GOG is a much more recent discovery for me, and I like it even better, but Steam is pretty benevolent for the giant it is. The service is well-run, by and large, and it's properly handled for the most part. I truly don't care about DRM when it's seamless and doesn't obstruct my play, and Steam is just a minor hop between me and playing.

The sales are great - oh come on, they are - and the support is reasonable enough, or has been on the very few times I've had to file a ticket. They aren't as friendly as they are here, but it's a different operation, in a different place along the food chain. I don't mind the toys and trinkets (I kind of like the trading cards idea, though it's definitely an early iteration of an interesting notion), and sure, Steam would clearly like to take over the world. But they don't insist on it, for the most part.

When I have to deal with EA for tech reasons, I want to hunt them down and shout at them (though when I get irritated enough and vent, they often give me a free game, so no real complaints). Every time I deal with Steam, it's just a bit of business done.

I'm curious about the Steam Machine and their new controller. Not my thing, mostly, but if they make it work it could be plenty of fun. Not boycotting here.

The only steam games I boycott are the the ones that have limited activations drm (namely the earlier Cyanide Studio Games and quite a few of the Focus Home Interactive games).
Why have that DRM when those games are tied to your steam account.

No one asked but honestly the only reasons I avoid Steam is that I'm too damn lazy to sign up for something else, my pc is too damn old for most of what they have to offer, and I'm too damn obnoxious for their forums.

Steam, Desura and GoG for the win... why limit yourself? :P

I boycott Steam games.

Admittedly it's easy for me to do so because I don't own any Steam games to begin with.

However, it's nothing personal against Steam. I'm not a member of any online DRM service.