[Blood-Pigggy]

The hell people.
Have you learned of this thing called context in the English language? I said that I despise Steam's releases, I said nothing about them releasing the games themselves, just the way they release them.

As it stands, it's not alright to sell incompatible or unfinished products as they were sold when they were released once again. Which is why I said GoG might be better, they're adding compatibility to the games that they sell.

We don't know anything about their installers or the way they store the games on your PC, so I can't say anything of the level of alteration that could be accomplished to a game, but the fact is that Steam releases shitty products that have been locked in their last known form with no hope of being able to fix these products with third party applications since Steam is far too strict with people altering the games they sell.

As far as Steam goes, when you play on Steam there is only the Steam community, there isn't a "JA2 Community" or "Doom Community" since those communities are known for fiddling with their games, if things keep going as they are we'll only be able to use the tools Steam releases and anything else will be either impossible or incredibly difficult to alter.

Like it or not, the majority of "good" games that would soon be outdated because of their faults are corrected by the community into something great.

I could never appreciate Fallout 2 until after Killap's patch, and the same goes for a game like Arcanum that was practically broken at release.
Some of the games on Steam (I have mentioned JA2 as a big example) won't allow you to modify the game, so you're stuck with the bugged version that has no hope of ever being fixed.

If companies want to pick up these games and bleed them from us then they'll first have to make sure that they aren't shoving bullshit down people's throat as a quick buck, I was massively irritated by their JA2 release and it's disappointing to learn that they feel it's ok to remove the third party fix element from the mix.