Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good View Post
Personally I try to buy directly from the developers whenever possible, which usually only applies to indies.
Ditto.

I was badly burned by Steam early on. I bought Half Life 2 right at release, excitedly brought it home, installed it and..... Steam was down.... I couldn't play it. I basically had the whole weekend set aside for gaming, and I couldn't play because Valve decided I needed to phone home to their servers to play a single-player game.

I had a long self-imposed Steam boycott, I use Steam now, but I never pay full price for anything on it. I always remember- I'm buying access to the games, but Valve could take that away at pretty much any time for any reason and I would have zero recourse. People tell me that because they haven't done so yet, I should be happy and think it's a great system. I disagree.