TehCookie said:
1. You're asking me the wrong question then.
2. Tried it and failed, it still launches steam and if it can't connect I can't play the game.
3. Humble bundle =/= steam.
Also how am I lazy with Steam? I am impatient, I want to play games on my schedule not Steam graciously allows me because it's in the mood. I don't have time to wait for my internet to come back because I don't know if it's going to be 5 minutes or 5 hours. Or if I patch broken games to get them to work I don't want to do it every time I play it because Steam doesn't like what I did. I want to fiddle with it and when it works leave it that way so it works next time I want to play. I like oldschool gaming where I only needed one copy of a game for me and all my friends to play it and mods/patches were always the same as how I left them, nothing interfered.
1. You brought it up.
2. What game did you try?
3. What's your point? Most newish AAA games on the PC are not obtainable on anything other than Steam. Their availability on Steam allows them to be distributed through several vendors for cheap.
So it's your shitty internet connection that's the problem. Get a better connection. Can't? That is not the fault of Valve Corp.
I don't know what your issue with the modding is. Steam is very mod friendly, as any Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mount & Blade, etc... player will tell you. If you have a specific issue, then I am sure that someone on the community forums probably ran into it at some point. Naming the actual specific issue might help.