I hate Steam. Some software devs would never work for military contractors and such; as a software dev myself I would never work for Valve - I think they are basically pure evil. I was just reading Sowell on the parasitic middleman stereotype and how it's false in the cases he describes, but Valve seems to have read something similar as an instruction manual. Users should own what they pay for and should not suffer thru buggy, bloated, 100% useless piece of software to get to their games, not speaking of offline mode bugs and outright outages preventing single player play.