gradenko_2000,
Your core argument seems to state that:
1. It's too expensive and troublesome to store install files for games
2. Publishers can release games with less DRM than Matrix has, so therefore Steam DRM is "easier" on the user.
3. Convenience is worth the loss of privacy and risk of losing everything with one click of a Steam employee's "ban" button.
So let's address those, shall we?
On the first point, an external drive goes for about $160 for 4TB. Given your example that any user would balk at backing up - Max Payne 3 weighing in at 35GB - what's the cost for storage? Um... about $1.40. That's it. That's how much you need to pay to safeguard your install files against a disaster. That's onerous?
On the second. I see no proof to this statement. Requiring Steam to install the game is in itself DRM. Unless they allow you to download a full install package that is not dependent on Steam in any way, you're STILL tied by Steam DRM. And if you do manage to back up the files such that you can play the game without Steam - you're very likely violating your terms of service with Steam. Well done! Just because you CAN doesn't mean you're ALLOWED to.
On the third, you're giving very little value to privacy. Steam's use of player's private data has been an ongoing battle in Europe. If you don't care that Big Brother is watching, then I'm sure you're happy. I'm not.
But the third goes against any basic business principle of mitigating one's losses in a disaster. I can't imagine any businessman would happily sign a deal where the other party has carte blanche to seize everything he's bought. But that's where you stand with Steam - you're trusting entirely in their integrity to continue to allow you to access the games you've paid for.
Would you like to take the opportunity to retract
another baseless statement that you can't support with a single iota of evidence?
ORIGINAL: gexmex
I doubt a person getting banned from Steam and losing all their games is "John Q Innocent".
I can't say what justice is like where you live, but where I'm from, presumption of innocence is a pillar of our judicial system. But you're presuming guilt with no facts and no accusation from Steam (in my example link).
Are you from Ferguson? Their policing standard seems to assume guilt.. but hold on, only if you're black...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens