Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
True, but the point made earlier was that is the ONLY control you have over it. Other patches are distributed by the publishers, and generally come with a more or less accurate list of fixes and changes. Steam doesn't even give you that option or information. This is in many ways the same way that good ol MS is going with Windows, they all but force you to install "critical" updates such as that Genuine Windows broken spyware.
I see a big difference here because Microsoft never forced me to give them my adress, name and credit card number to use their software, and they don't force me to go online to use their software.
And besides that, I'd rather give my data to Microsoft because they should be able to pay for the security measures required to keep my data safe, and they never had a beta of Windows stolen from their internal buero network by a hacker...

And besides that, I like to have my software on a CD, only program I ever bought online so far was Mount&Blade, excluding Amazon because they wqill send me CDs/DVDs of course.