Wait, what? I don't understand this thread at all. None of the complaints make sense! As FoolyCooly said; you can run Steam in offline mode, so the complaint about "needing to be online" is ridiculous. And you can still mod the game, so I'm failing to see how the second question in the poll is even tangentially related to Steam vs standalone play. One of the only real problems I've heard of with Steam is that since it obviously entails extra processes versus standalone, it can cause slowdown on older computers. That said... as far as I know, any machine that can run FO3 should have few difficulties running NV, so if you're really running a heap that can't manage what is essentially a two-year-old game, get an upgrade. What exactly has steam done to "kill [people's] interest", or is it just by having the temerity to exist? Edit Also Dark0ne is full of truthliness: Steam has done a lot to energise the PC gaming genre. It's made games infinitely more accessible - there's a lot of games you just can't find physical copies of that you can still get on Steam - beyond Good Old Games, I can't think of anything else that does that - and it makes it much easier to try new games. Not to mention: the sales. Oh my goodness. I'm still getting warm fuzzies when I remember this year's Summer Sale.