The last big commercial game I bought was Portal in the "Orange box." I specifically bought a physical copy because my parent's internet at the time was terribl

The last big commercial game I bought was Portal in the "Orange box." I specifically bought a physical copy because my parent's internet at the time was terrible. After installing it forced a two day redownload of the entire game via Steam. I'm surprised this kind of thing is popular. I still buy indie games from GOG but I archive my GOG games folder myself and just copy it between computers. No need for any Steam insanity. I don't think the issue is the storage media. It's the hostile attitude game publishers have. It reminds me of how N-Gate used to talk about companies "being at war with their users."