Originally posted by: Golgatha
Originally posted by: NeoV
Steam is a fantastic product - in my experience, the people who complain the most about Steam are people that download game copies and don't want to pay for purchasing games.
Why are you constantly downloading games on STeam? You can backup games a number of different ways so you can re-install games from disk/CD/DVD instead of re-downloading them.
As for auto-patching the games - why is that possibly a bad thing?
Steam has some good qualities, but to beat a dead horse, its major limitation is that you cannot resell your games once you're done with them. I and many others purchase our games. We also don't appreciate the assumption we're involved in piracy just because we have a legitimate gripe with Steam.
As for auto-patching...I don't like being a beta tester thank you very much. Sometimes patches break previously saved games as well (Stalker comes to mind immediately). However, I believe you can disable auto-updates on a per-game basis, but IMO this should be the default setting (or perhaps a download but don't install until I give you permission setting like Windows Update has).