@miikedavid: I would have much preferred if they just let PayDay 2 be the way it was (except for any bug fixes), and worked on PayDay 3 instead (since they wanted a lot more money).

I was planning to buy PayDay 2, but I'm glad this happened before I would have bought it, so that I didn't end up wasting my money and support what they're doing.

I'm not sure if people can still get refunds for this on Steam even if they bought the game long ago; I encourage people to try, though. If you need your PayDay fix, get PayDay: The Heist instead.

@aiat_gamer: I don't think screwing up games is specific to multiplayer games; I think GTA San Andreas on Steam was messed up much later in its life with a mandatory update that stripped out content.

Freedom-constraining such as this is why we need to support companies like GOG (gog.com), which sell games without DRM (such that no company can screw us over with mandatory future updates).

The thing is, I have yet to see a game that I wanted there, but when I do, that's were I'll be buying from.

@R4gn4r0k: It's less of a problem if the game is a rip-off and/or bad from the beginning, because you know what you're getting into, whereas with Payday 2, the game was ruined much later in its life (which is like having a rug pulled out from under you).

@vegasape: The people behind the Debian GNU/Linux project, for example (which is what SteamOS is based on).

No one can make that code spy on us, because the code is visible to all, so if they put some kind of backdoor, it wouldn't go unnoticed for long by some community programmer.

@bernard978: It's better to support AMD, not just because competition is good for consumers, but also because AMD is much more standard-compliant, whereas Nvidia tends to lean towards vendor lock-in whenever it can.

@xcollector: In the case of GOG's GOG Galaxy client, it's entirely optional (otherwise the games needing it would not be considered to be DRM free).

@MAGIC-KINECT: Technically, I think you'd get your extra spent money back, because, if I'm correct, Steam sales tend to be better than console game sales.

Then, you're like 99%+ guaranteed to have backwards-compatible games for life, as opposed to wondering if regular consoles would support backwards compatibility in any given generation.

In short, if you're a console gamer, a Steam Machine seems to me like the better long-term investment/purchase.

Edit:
I forgot to mention that online gaming is free with Steam Machines (unlike regular consoles).

@countofwilfore: Vote with your wallet; go with team AMD.

@greaseman1985: If Microsoft cared about Windows gaming, they'd have released Halo 3 on Windows already, after all this time.

@aramil83: These are PCs, configured to behave like consoles (by running SteamOS and including a Steam Controller "for free").

P.S.
Steam Controller: http://store.steampowered.com/app/353370/