Yeah it totally makes sense for Todd to think/talk about the Zenimax higherups as "money grabbing jews".I'm gaming for 2 decades already but that is not the point, I don't think you've read the hardware manuals for your PC hardware or the ISP conditions for your Internet connection and not even the forum posting rules 'cause they're all pretty TOTALITARIAN!!!!1111 You silently accepted them and yet you throw dirt at Steam? You're taking the slippery slope metaphor too far. Now it's Steam activation, it was key entering and disk in drive in the past, or it was required to enter some random text from some game manual page even earlier.Steam on Linux means more games on Linux ( all the HumbleBundles are there already and other games that have a Linux version ) just by the fact the game publishers can see that Linux gamers BUY games, this whole Steam=DRM=BAD thing hurts games on Linux more as every one reading the discussion that is not familiar with Linux will only see F/OSS zealots asking for free games and asking for game sources and what not when THIS is not actually the case.Linux gamers need to make the case for BUYING LINUX GAMES and the HumbleBundle helps with that and Steam is a compromise that needs to be done, 'cause I don't expect the Canonical Ubuntu Store to move anything game related as long as Mark Shuttleworth ( and the likes ) does not make an Ubuntu 13.04 Game Edition focusing on games on Linux, either free or not, focusing that Ubuntu devs help game devs to see Ubuntu and Linux in general as a GAME PLATFORM and as the UNSERVED GAME MARKET that it truly is.And regarding WINE: While i do have the utmost respect for all the talent and good intentions of the Wine developers and while I use Wine to run my bought Windows games, I still feel that the developers are going in the wrong direction by emulating ( both bad and good design of ) Windows and not working with the application/game developers on native Linux versions. We need more Linux ports of existing games, like LGP is doing and more multi-OS titles that include a native Linux version, than to emulate an operating system that we don’t want to use.

Edited by Licaon_Kter, 12 October 2011 - 08:16 AM.