Owning the licence is owning the game. Of course he doesn't have rights to the property and the assets.

I haven't boycotted it, but I essentially don't use it anymore. I'll always buy my games DRM-free, preferably here, and will only use Steam if I absolutely can't wait to play a game. Last case was Arkham Knight. Even prepped by replaying Asylum and City. Needless to say I was a tad disappointed. Not that DRM-free would have helped the release of that travesty, but it definitely left a sour taste in my mouth. The only thing left on Steam I regularly play is The Binding of Isaac Rebirth. Would happily buy it again here.

Now we just need to convince Warner to release those Batman games here (and Arkham Knight once they actually fix the damn thing). I definitely wasn't thrilled to be booted from my single player game in Asylum when I lost my internet connection every so often.

oh a necro post? call me a fanboy but i don't use steam. only time i DID use steam was in a LAN shop playing Left 4 Die 1& 2, which nobody plays anymore, so i have no motiviation to play it again. and my desire for any multiplayer games have declined since then.

totally different timezones, i guess. but the last ime i played it was 2010 or 2011?

Less boycott and more "don't buy things I don't want". I don't want games with DRM, which is mostly what Steam sells.

Well, I did for a while until I decided to by a 980ti graphics card. So I bought Dying Light a few weeks ago... sue me.

I know big games like that will never make it to GOG, let alone be appreciate by the niche minded community, so I buy one on very rare occasion just to let my computer have some eye candy fun.

Oh, and Arkham Knight for a cheap as chips price... haven't played it yet though.

More than a year has passed. And the backlog and the whislit have increased.
I still see no reason to use and buy on Steam.
There are really so many games not on Steam to bother with it, if you simply don't want to.

why's this telling me you replied to me? lol, oh well.

No it isn't. What's meant by "owning the game" is "owning a copy of the game", and this implies rights of transferring ownership of the copy, temporarily (as in lending) or permanently to someone else.

I'm still thinking if I should get mgs v in full price or wait some days.. I prob should wait some but in other sense, I'm pretty weak.

Well I not really boycott STEAM but to be honest the last months my GOG library grew massively. I think the last 4 months or so I have not yet bought a game on STEAM but bought lots of GOG games as I know they work.

When I bought DOOM back in the day on steam nothing worked. I had to redo the DOSBOX config files myself and that really annoyed me. Here I never encountered a problem with anygame. All games worked perfectly.

So for me it seems GOG cares about there community a bit more than STEAM does. Hopefully this doesnt change when GOG grows...

I also have not left steam but this year gog games bought a hell of a lot more than steam which amounts to only 2.

I have never found non intrusive drm annoying

I'm only boycotting Steam as far as purchasing goes.
I still play the ones I bought in the past, especially the expensive ones, it would be a bigger waste of money otherwise. However I stopped actually buying games from Steam several years ago.