Gabe Newell (Valve) diz que DRM é Estupido

Na resposta a um jogador que lhe enviou um email a questionar o motivo de aparecer o logotipo da EA (uma das empresas que mais infesta os seus lançamentos com DRM que os tornam quase impossíveis de instalar e jogar) nos jogos comprados via Steam, Gabe Newell fundador da Valve e criador de jogos como Half-Life responde:

Hi, Paul.

Left 4 Dead is developed entirely by Valve. Steam revenue for our games is not shared with third parties.

Around the world we have a number of distribution partners to handle retail distribution of our games (i.e. make discs and boxes). EA is one of those partners.

As far as DRM goes, most DRM strategies are just dumb. The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value (make it easy for me to play my games whenever and wherever I want to), not by decreasing the value of a product (maybe I'll be able to play my game and maybe I won't).

We really really discourage other developers and publishes from using the broken DRM offerings, and in general there is a groundswell to abandon those approaches.

Gabe

Portanto... se querem mostrar o vosso desagrado por estas medidas, da próxima vez que comprarem um jogo, façam-no via Steam.