inc09nito: In Diablo 3, they at least won against piracy (at the cost of heavily crippling their game).
But steam crap in Skyrim isn't justified in anyway.
You can't edit, hack, mod, or do anything with D3. Even texture replacements isn't allowed. And it looks like WoW in my opinion.
Compare this to D2, specifically Zy-El mod, and the expansion to the game in complexity, fun, secrets, and infinite inventory made it astounding and beyond measure, only limited by it's own programming limitations. Zy-El makes D3 look seriously inferior.
darkwolf777: Reading some of the earlier posts, let's be clear: Steam is not DRM, Steam is a game launch client. Steamworks is Valve's DRM they've developed that developers are free to use, but they are not required to use. Many indie games, especially ones DRM free elsewhere (like here or Humble Bundle) do not include the Steamworks DRM even though you activate the game on Steam.
Yet there are so many games (
like Skyrim) where if you try to load the game without steam it chokes and refuses... and worse is if you didn't actively download it to that computer through steam it won't run either.
I've managed to bypass steam and get a game running without the client before, but then the game (
in quesiton, HOARD as I recall) comes up as a
'demo' version...