still, there is clear corporate (?) ties between GoG and CD red. Between GG and Paradox there are non - they separated completely from each other in 2008/09. Officially GG have nothing at all to do with Paradox any more.

Resistance is futile...

This works fine for me. I prefer purchasing at Steam anyway and like achievements, connection to friends on Steam, the way it tracks the time I spend playing games individually and in total, automatically applies patches, keeps most of my games organized in one place, has great sale prices and more!

I don't have a problem with stating preferences, I have a problem with saying they're doing something wrong when they are doing exactly what their customers want.
And if your dislike of Steam outweighs all the benefits of PC gaming then hey, your call. Like I said above though, just don't act like they're doing anything wrong.

Also PSN has 5 machine activation limit DRM on all their downloadable titles and DLC, their patches require a PSN account and specific servers to be active and the next system will quite possibly use a Steam-like account activation method.

2 machine since recently. That is, a single PSN account can have only 2 consoles using its content at any time.

The games find and download patches the moment they smell a web connection, you don't need to log in for that.

Ah, Xbox doesn't do that so I assumed. Kind of weird though, honestly. Either way needs a specific server.

Chronicles of Riddick anyone?

If you have the money, sure. Most Steam users are in the lower income brackets, a class action lawsuit threat was the only check keeping Valve honest. Or rather, *IS* the only check keeping them honest, as I, and many others chose to abandon our accounts rather than willingly sign away our rights.

gabe himself agrees with McDon. Most pirates are customers that have fallen through the cracks. Convenience is often the leading reason for piracy, not blatant disregard for the value of the work.
Me too. I abandoned PC gaming for the forseeable future when Steam hijacked everyone's accounts, and my Xbox does me just fine. I still have my paradox games if I want something more PC-ish, but asside from strategy games, the console does everything else better. No system requirements, viruses, subscriptions, etc. Plus, for console games, the true effect of supply and demand rules, as you can get games super cheap since physical copies have to "pay rent" in stores and on shelves.
If A gets to tell B and C what to do, then functionally, B owns C and vice versa. This subsidiary relationship BS is just another way to skirt responsibility. NEVER forget that it MOST DEFINITELY was gog.com that shook alleged Witcher Ii pirates down. It was not a laterally related company.

Hence why I don't buy games on PSN. And if the next system uses a Steam-like account activation method, I won't buy it. That's all there is to it. My PS3 still works fine, and it will work fine even when Sony stops allowing connections to the PSN servers for patching. And when my PS3 is dead, I still have my Wii U. And even when that's dead, the world will not end if I stop gaming. I have plenty of other things to do.

It's not like I'm wanting for options here.

I just hope you know who you're punishing.

Who am I supposed to be punishing? Valve? Myself? PC gamers by not being 'faithful to the cause'? The economy?

I doubt it would make much of a difference now if I stopped gaming altogether, as I've been progressively spending less time on it over the past few months anyway. My gaming is basically limited to an hour or so of Minecraft a week on my laptop and the occasional round on the PS3 or Wii, usually Sundays. I'm out most evenings, and the time that used to be spent gaming in the evenings is either now spent on watching a film with my girlfriend, archery or filmmaking.

You can thank the massive decline in ethics in the industry for that, not that it was ever a particularly honest sector. I've felt uneasy for a while now about pursuing a hobby driven by an industry that automatically considers me to be an addict, a thief and a moron.

Reminds me of that sketch by Henning Wehn...

LOL! Love it, so true!

My great-grandfather was murdered by the Nazis. Twice yearly we visit his grave as a family. And we won't forget.

I could just shout "Godwin's Law LOL", but I just want you to be aware how rude and utterly thoughtless it is to compare an unknown person to a Nazi supporter. Especially if the comparison does nothing to improve the discussion, nor does it prove a point.

Please be more mature.