I've seen Steam, I've seen what it does, I've read up on what it does, and I'm not putting up with that.
It's immediately obvious that you haven't seen what it does. And if you have read up on what it does, you've read something written by someone who also hasn't seen what it does.
You can promise me until the sun goes out that Steam won't do it, and frankly, I don't give a damn.
And finally, we've come to it. An opinion/theory/point of view is only any good if it can be changed. If your theory can explain anything, then it allows for anything and in a sense gives no new information. If an opinion can't be swayed, it's immune to new information and is disconnected with objective reality on a fundamental level. The mental map you have built of the territory known as "Steam" doesn't in any way correspond to what a person were to find if they actually went to that place. And all to satisfy some fear of some imagined bogeyman who has a keen interest in the contents of your hard drive and your porn watching habits (Which I imagine are both equally unremarkable).
(I'm calling your opinion worthless here. Just so we're clear)
And the only reason GG isn't "carrying out service" on my car is because Paradox is bailing on their obligation to provide the same service to their GG customers that they provide to their Steam customers.
I guess you'll be joining that guy from 25 or so pages ago who is taking Paradox to court to get his refund, then?
The car analogy stands, and all the "but if we twist your analogy up into a pretzel this way you don't have a point" bullcrap that people are trying to pass off as valid arguments won't change that it stands.
You don't have a point, and it's precisely because your analogies are so easily twistable. Soft, lacking any hard backing whatsoever.
Not my fault that you so utterly fail to comprehend the nature of the analogy.
He comprehends it just fine. The point you're making is that this switch is causing you inconvenience. His point is that, functionally, nothing has changed except the name of service you use to receive the game.
And it's not my loss, it's Paradox's. In the week just before the Steam announcement, I bought LoR, TOG, SoA, and SoI at full price through GG, hoping that they'd address some of the issues I had with the vanilla release.
...You waited until a few weeks ago to get SoI? I don't think Paradox is missing out on all that much.
Paradox outright told a customer that actively cared to go to hell.
[video=youtube;G2y8Sx4B2Sk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk[/video]
To keep the conversation back on topic: When the change does happen, will keys for the game/DLC be individualized? That is to say, not all part of a package with one key? If so this could be a great opportunity for former GG users who already have the game/DLC on Steam to get a friend into CKII. In a way I'm almost jealous.
If any GG user absolutely objects to using Steam and wants to have nothing to do with their keys, I'll gladly take them off your hands when the time comes.
