Did you buy Borderlands GOTY and BioShock with money you've gotten from cards?
Amazon has had BioShock 1 & 2 for $5 several times and I'm pretty sure Borderlands GOTY has been cheaper too.
I bought everything on rather spur of the moment decisions. For Borderlands, I missed out on the GOTY edition being cheap on Amazon, and even then, if it was less than $7.50, it couldn't have been a substantial enough difference for me to regret my purchase. As for Bioshock, oh, Amazon had the same price at some point or another? Why should that matter?
Honestly, I prefer keeping it all tidy in Steam. As silly as it might be, it's just more convenient to not have my collection sprawled throughout many different publisher folders on my hard drive along with tons of shortcuts and the like, and instead having it all neatly kept inside folders within the Steam folder. As well, it's much faster to start games via Steam, as I just look at the list click it, and press play. Neat, tidy, perfect. I recognize that technically the use of Steam itself acts as DRM, but I don't worry about it since it's just a simple client that offers a number of functions even in-game. It's DRM that actually has more pros than cons, as odd as it may sound.
On a Steam related note, I said I wouldn't purchase more, but I caved for what is likely to be the last time this sale (since it ends tomorrow) and purchased:
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
They were $3.39 a piece (sadly, no bundle of just those two games).
I recognized that even with the Steam versions of these games, they can potentially throw bitch fits on many machines. Thankfully, the second game booted first try, worked perfectly, allowed me to change settings (its default resolution is tiny), make my character, and play through the prologue into the main game with absolutely no issues. Not a freeze. Not a crash. No game crashing glitches. I was pleasantly surprised after prowling the community forums for it during the download and seeing a lot of very recent negativity towards the game just not working on a number of computers, even with mods and patches.
With that said, I already found a couple top notch mods that will fix the game up nicely (I guess the vanilla version is pretty buggy) and add plenty of content (some of it locked away
because of aforementioned bugs), with one already installed without issue, and the other waiting in my downloads folder.
I just have to hope that Knights of the Old Republic is just as agreeable. I've read a few things where people could only seem to get one game or the other working right, and I'm hoping I don't have that issue.