[dogscoff]

Wilhil, you've failed to address some of the other reasons mentioned in this thread for not wanting Steam:

1 - What if the company goes bust/ suffers some catastrophic outage? Your game becomes unusable.
2 - What if you want to sell the game on or give it to someone else?
3 - What if the company suddenly decides to start charging you for the privelege of playing a game you've already bought?