Many people don't have home internet connection (including myself) and Steam is known to have occassional connection problems. Just google "Steam won't update". Also many resent paying for a game disc only to have a program try to download the game and be treated as criminals. Any software can and will be pirated, DRM only serves to punish those who legitimately purchase the game. ^^^ This is so true. I can't count how many times I've seen the argument "But everyone has internet and if you don't get over it!" No, not everyone has a reliable internet connection at all times. I shouldn't have rediculous limitations on a product I paid for just because a small number of people don't want to pay for it. :wallbash: You don't need a constant internet connection to play games on Steam, just to download games, which has already been shown is unnecessary for games like New Vegas if you read the tutorials. After it's installed you can completely bypass Steam to run the game or open Steam in offline mode. I personally use Steam almost exclusively to get all my PC games because of the frequent and significant discounts they provide.