I find it amusing that you ridicule me, when I merely echo the complaints used by many pro-Steam gamers against Apple several years ago.

Amusing, how?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84VqqCPI7w

Point is, no competitor brought out a better system then Steam. No real alternative = staying costumers.
.... and gamers not being critical of Valve/Steam? Really? Seems I can't find ANY discussion or even topic about Steam, without people dropping in just to tell me how bad Steam is and why we shouldn't use it.
Frankly, it crossed the point of an annoyance or being old.... it starts to stink.

^this...x1000, every time a Steam rant starts I think "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
A lot of people don't seem to get that some of us actually like the community aspects of Steam. I want to run the Steam client.

Thank you MrBuzzkill. what are you serving for dinner tomorrow? A lecture about the cruelties performed on Chritsmas turkeys ?

Okay, okay, so it was a bit heavy-handed.
Listen, Steam has a lot of great features, but for those of us who are wary of DRM, Steam's model isn't good for the future of gaming. We need to either pressure Valve to change that model, or cultivate a viable competitor.

For me, it isn't using it, but being forced to use it. It is useful, but the lock in strategy (gamer buys lots of titles during Steam sale -> gamer eventually has a massive collection on Steam -> gamer doesn't want to use other services because he has too much invested in Steam and because Steam has to be running all the time, there is little incentive to run another client, if even just to download games) sucks.
Anyway, at places like GoG, where people are generally anti-DRM, Steam receives criticism. However, the PC gaming community at large offers nothing but praise for Valve and Steam. Look through the archives over at Kotaku or Rock Paper Shotgun.

So then perhaps you should voice your complaints at those places instead of GoG since you acknowledge that most of the people here seem to get the point already?

That's so...logical.
Why would I do that? (Also, are you so certain that I don't?)

Okay, right, thank you for the advice! Without meaning to be newbish, (but failing) how do I set the processor affinity to a single core? lol

You can do that from Windows Task Manager (either ctrl+shift+esc or right-click task bar and select Start Task Manager). Select the proper game (running in the background) from Processes list, right-click and from "Set affinity..." menu untick unnecessary cores (you probably want to just have core 0 ticked).

hmm. I kinda suspected that future "deal of the day"s would have to discount existing sale items. So i'm mostly hanging on until the end of the sale before I pick anything up. Unless it's a deal of the day. Then on the last day I'll see what I want.
Fingers crossed it doesn't bite me in the ass and some of the prices go up!

I'll try it, thank you for the assistance! :)
Okay, having tried the trick with setting the Affinity, it still hasn't worked. It keeps sending the Error Report, long before I can find the SWKOTOR name in the list of processes. The game doesn't run in the background, it just dies!
When I go back to it and try it, it kinda defaults back to both 0 and 1 selected. So most likely there is something in what you're saying!
Anyway, thanks for trying to help.

Couldn't we exchange some steam ids somewhere? Or is there a steam community or something for GOG? I'd join some random servers, but I don't like the average mental age of the players on steam (which is way, way lower than on GOG).

Borderlands is still expensive :(