we forget that before Steam, the digital downloads for AAA games scene was the wild effin' west. no idea if this ever changed but if you bought Spore at launch,

we forget that before Steam, the digital downloads for AAA games scene was the wild effin' west. no idea if this ever changed but if you bought Spore at launch, you were limited in the number of times you could download and activate your purchased copy... and if you wanted more, you had to pay for it when the time came. without Steam we might still see various publishers imposing weird restrictions like this.