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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkonami" data-source="post: 117455" data-attributes="member: 288">Steam is a "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" kinda deal.  Many games are digital release only these days, so you have to pick one service or the other, and that includes both TPA and Pinball FX 2.  Both developers need assurance that their bread and butter isn't going to be pirated to hell and back, so some DRM is a plus for them in mitigating that damage (however inevitable).  I personally like a box for my shelf, and an offline copy, but in cases like these, that's not an option.  Steamworks DRM is totally fair.  All it is basically is a CD-check to see if the account logged in owns the game you try to play.  Not different than what Apple or Android do.  Some publishers, for example Ubisoft, add their own terrible DRM on top of Steamworks, limiting how many times you can install, or putting Securom or Starforce or many other kinds of invasive software on your PC.  Do like I do, read up on what you are buying and try to avoid those games.  Plus, with Steam you get a few extra perks over a free standing release.  You can implement VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat), which TPA and PBFX2 both still need I think, but to protect the integrity of the scoreboards it's a nice option.  You get easy, automatic patching to the latest release, which is usually a good thing.  I'll admit they pulled a 1984 on me with Plants vs. Zombies and yanked the Micheal Jackson zombie from under me, but I'm over it.  In the case of TPA though I can just log in and it's already got the new fixes downloading automagically.As long as one day I can set up a physical pinball cabinet and put TPA and PBFX2 in there, and hopefully eventually Pro Pinball too, I'm happy to buy them through steam.  We should support everyone out there making new pinball tables, each of the main 3 are putting out very competent, professional work.To keep this on topic:  I admit I was a hater on Pinball FX 2, but I'm warming up to them, especially the Marvel tables.  Some of those initial tables are still a little bland, but I can see where some of them are pretty cool.  I was even enjoying Biolab a bit last night.  I wanna go back and research this, but aren't some of the tables based on real world tables?  Like they flip-flop the board layout and then change the theme, right?</blockquote>

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