Comment Re:Steam Bad (Score 1) 43
It is the game Publishers that force this sort of bullshit on gamers. Again, it is the Publishers that would have a hissy fit if Steam allowed earlier versions to co-exist with later 'undesirable' versions. That would lead to all sorts of incompatibilities for co-op / multi-player games.
The gamers get the short straw on this. Publishers have a lot of clout. Single gamers or even vociferous groups of gamers have very little influence.
Steam isn't the one responsible when a Publisher decides to change the EULA to something Evil, or force a bad patch down the gamer's throats.
They are complicit I suppose by letting Publishers do shit like this, but I am not privy to the agreements they have. Can you imagine the sorts of mayhem that would happen if Steam were to start vetting all this stuff for non-evilness and the deep pocketed Publishers rabid attack lawyers got in on the act? Who would win? The lawyers. Who would lose out? Everyone else, with the gamers being at the bottom of the resultant shitpile.
Steam are a platform and conduit for game Publishers to do their stuff. It is the greedy / evil publishers (and sometimes Devs, but mostly the publishers) who are doing the dirty here.
It is the likes of EA, Take 2 and the rest that should be the target of ire here. Steam may be somewhat complicit in the Evil, but not the source of it.
