I weas shocked to find that Civilization V required steam to play. My computer already lags from Civilization IV (I guess that´s only my fault for having a thirty-two bit system, instead of sixty-four, but still...) and each turn on Civ V takes several seconds to complete even at the beginning; at least with Civ IV it took until the game was almost over. On top of that, I find that everytime I´m connected to the internet I receive advertisements. Now, I did not ask for ads. I did not pay their advertising department. I was not curious about whatever games steam had managed to acquire the rights to, I just wanted to play damn civilization. But I had to open two different programs to play one game. Plus, I had purchased a disk from a store that did not even have the game on it. Why did I pay fifty dollars for packaging, shipping, storage, sales tax, etc, when I only ended up downloading it anyway?

When I downloaded quake and it´s mission packs, I was also laden with naïve expectations. I thought that I was downloading the same program I had bought the first time (I lost my originial disk, you see, and though I needed only copy it from one system to the next I stupidly forgot to do it). Now it is laden with DRM--can´t be copied or even operated unless steam.exe is also running. Steam.exe takes up twice the amount of memory that quake ever did. It´s still not much, but it´s the principle damnit.