Aspyr launches GameAgent online store

I was excited when I first saw that they finally brought this out. I have been waiting for this for years now. But then I too was disappointed to read about the limitations. Even macgamestore.com is sounding better right about now.

I, too, was disappointed when I saw what this actually ended up being. When they were first talking about it, they made it sound exactly like Valve's Steam, not some steaming pile of crap like this.

I have to agree with all the positive comments about Steam. If your download service doesn't offer what Valve does at a minimum then you are going to fail. I was kind of psyched about this service, because I was hoping for something similar to Steam. Then I read it and I was like, wtf and extra 5 bucks to download again. What kind of crap is that.

Do these people understand the fact that their customers do not live in a freaking bubble? I know what is available on the PC. I know what passes for good a good digital delivery system.

Oh well, Aspyr must be taking their digital delivery advice from the RIAA.

this is interesting

Epic fail Aspyr. RIP.

No one gets it, huh? It's simple...monkey see Steam, monkey do Steam. Valve has it right...the material is protected, it's attached to a single account, and you can download it any time you want, to any PC you want, as long as you're signed into the service at one PC and the client is running. With some prep work, you can play offline, too, by just signing the game out of the client.

This is why Steam has cornered the PC market on downloadable games and has multiple publishers, none of which have any other relationship with Valve, and their content for sale.

Until these guys realize that Steam is the minimally accepted solution that pleases both gamers and publishers by making the DRM as transparent as possible and still protect content, piracy will continually rank as morally acceptable to their one-sided, we-say-so arguments.

http://www.macserialjunkie.com/ lets you download a game as many times as you want with unlimited activations!

They really don't get it! Such crippling DRM measures are not only unreliable, they take away one of main reasons that everyday users prefer to buy (rather than pirate) software--it's easier!

When you have to jump through hoops to get normal usage out of a product that you pay for (such as installing it on an upgraded computer), it becomes a lot easier to get a pre-cracked version online for free and not have to bother with that mess.

What a deal! Full retail price, more limited activation and no first-sale rights. And, you get the opportunity to pay extra up front, in case the download is corrupted or gets erased (why would it get erased, it's only a couple of gigabytes).