Quote Originally Posted by Callinon View Post
I'm curious here for the people who have this visceral reaction to the entire concept of Steam... why did you buy the game through Steam? I mean.. I understand the sales are attractive, but if Steam really does claw its way into your nightmares I'm a little confused as to why you'd bother.
Prior to SE informing us you'd have to buy HW from Steam if you bought ARR from Steam, there was no indication that you were signing a blood pact with Steam by buying your key from them. Given that a lot of players, myself included, likely got the software directly from SE by downloading it for the free trial and then just shopped around for the best deal on the full version, there was no reason to expect anything unusual about buying it from Steam.