I was, in fact, a victim of the Steam deletions, several years ago due to "account inactivity and illegal modding" oh yeah, and cracking versions of the game. Now while I don't partake in any of those things, I don't even know how to mod or crack games, I do believe that it is important for a company to keep track of their clients. Whether theyre right or wrong it doesn't necessarily matter, they have to keep purchasing up, and if that means not allowing you to use something at a friends house it's simply a way for them to squeeze more money out of people. IF it was as simple as bring a hardrive places I could just install whatever and take it whereever and give it to whomever, they just won't let this happen. It's not as free of a country as everyone would like.
Even with the secu-ROM on Spore, it's a little absurd that one is only allowed to install Spore on 4 or five computers, I personally am routinely on several different computers and would like to have it installed on every single one, however, I sadly cannot. I completely agree with you that this stuff is getting a little out of hand, profiteering can only get a company so far, and if their fan base starts to realize that theyre more after the profit instead of customer service, they will begin to lose customers at an alarming rate.
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