securom hasn't done that yet tmk, but TAGES accused me of it when i mis typed my key twice in Chronicles of Riddick AoDA.

i had to argue with'em for a week and get them to verify with D2D, before theyd finally unban my IP and stopped claiming i was trying to use a pirated copy of the game, i.e. calling me a pirate.

TAGES imho is worse off than Securom atm, and they even have the gull to claim that their system is "unbreakable" despite any idiot with a net connection could find a tages infected game and pirate it with greater ease than buying the game and getting called a pirate.

@Cerabret100

i don't doubt they have the intention of doing that now, but what about later? what about when the current team moves on and new guys replace them?

ID is a good example of carrying out their promises, as they've released all of their games over the years from disc checks, but ID never got to big for their own britches either. Valve is expanding into terrirory most devs fear, publishing, and they're going pretty fast at it. Not a problem besides their total lack of support. No refunds, no exchange for a better product, nadda. they aren't even making sure they get the latest versions of half the games they've got in the list.

i love steam as a way to get and store games, but i would also prefer that valve got the balls to start making the other dev teams PATCH the steam version on time, if even provide the patch at all for the steam version. As well as drop the M$ bit of trying to QA every patch to hell and back, delaying it by WEEKS compared to retail/D2D. All the while releasing incomplete STEAM packaged games that get removed within days of being put up (Rainbow Six series anyone? R6RS was pulled for requiring the CD still. Splinter Cell Chaos theory was also pulled but seems to be back of recently.)

so don't get me wrong, i like steam, love it even. but those little nuisances, and the risk of losing EVERYTHING should valve go under from its mod buying/selling strategy (of which IMHO is low.. very low. good for the modders, but bad for the overall community. the mod community for nearly every game out there is all but dead, even popular mods go unplayed online but in small groups now, and other good mods die without even being heard of) Anything heard of thats any good gets bought or mimicked by Valve, or even both. (TF2 anyone? once a great Quake mod was Team Fortress, now a joke on Valves table. good game TF2 is, but they lay far to much claim to its origins IMO. much like CS, they didn't create it, the modders who built it did ALONE. sure they may work for valve now, but thats still credit theft IMHO not to give credit where due. I mean, did anyone at valve besides the gooseman himself have ANYTHING to do with Counter Strike originaly? besides making the game it was modded too, nope. yet valve claims complete design credit to its entire company.)