You can choose in steam settings whether to show you Steam Today "ads" and you can also set steam to open automatically to your library as opposed to the steam steam store. As for memory hogging, that is only if you leave the physical window open. Open up task manager when it is open and have a look at its memory consumption. Now click the "X" at the top of the steam window to close the window and you will see Steam.exe memory consumptions slump right down.stan4 said:
A month ago I bought MOH from Origin, just to try it, and I loved it, I was able to log on instantly with my EA account, make my purchase, download and install, That's as far as Origin goes, after you install your game you forget about it. What I loved the most is that I didn't have to start Origin in order to start my OWN game, steam is all about feeding you with advertisements all the time, wasting your precious PC resources.
I have over 1,200 hours of play on BC2, hell yeah I'm getting BF3, no matter where does it come from, a game distributor should be just that, sell the game and GTFO. Origin is not like steam, steam is a privacy violator, it uses your own goods to feed you ads.
BYE BYE STEAM!
The bulk of your argument is ignorant at best and if that is your basis for getting rid of steam than such a plan is nothing short of quixotic. What digital distribution platform you use (if any) is completely up to you, but spouting such crap is simply going to convince people to stick with Steam rather than branch out and try Origin.
Just saying…