Modern Warfare 2 becomes Steam exclusive…kinda
Steam, my personal favorite digital distribution client, has gone and done some…shady dealings. Well, not so much shady, so much as they’ve got their product where some people might not like it.
When you install Modern Warfare 2, it installs Steamworks. Now, this would be all good and dandy, if competing digital distribution clients (Impulse, Direct2Drive) weren’t forced to include their rival’s software.
Gamasutra got the word from Direct2Drive:
“We don’t believe games should force the user to install a Trojan Horse”
If anything is shady, it’s his wording. True, Modern Warfare 2 is, in a sense, trojan horsing Steam into people’s PCs, but at the same time there are obvious connotations to trojan viruses.
Other rival of Steam, Impulse, is also refusing to sell Modern Warfare 2. I’m sure that there are other digital distribution methods out there, but Steam, Impulse, and Direct2Drive are the big three that I’ve heard of.
It’s a wonder that this hasn’t happened sooner; maybe it took something as gargantuan as Modern Warfare 2 to set it off.
Source: Gamasutra
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