[Ballbarian]

I am old fashioned. I avoid Steam like the plague. I much prefer to hold a cd in my hands and not have my game use my bandwidth to call home to the mothership everytime I want to play it. A friend of mine came to visit with his laptop and wanted to show me the half-life 2 upgrade for Team Fortress, but couldn't run it because he could not get a connection to the net from my house at the time. Maybe it was just that particular implementation of Steam, but that was my first exposure to it.

As long as it was just an alternative for distribution and not the only method of getting a particular piece of software, I would not have a problem with it.