I really liked the original SiN game, although a lot of my contemporaries didn’t. Now a new life has been given to the franchise, with SiN: Emergence due for release tomorrow.

However, as much as I liked the original SiN and really do want to play the new game, the stated requirements of a Steam account to ‘authorise’ the game means I won’t be playing it any time soon.

The requirement that I ‘authorise’ a game I’ve purchased over the counter of a computer game shop is one that I don’t agree with, however having dealth with Valve and Steam in the past, it’s their reluctance to protect my privacy and information they hold about me that worries me the most. My original Steam account still exists somewhere on Valve’s servers, as they refused point blank to do more than ‘disable’ my account.

So, my details are still held somewhere on their servers, and I have no way of checking, amending, updating or removing those details. And if I want to play SiN: Emergence (which is, as far as I know, not an online game), I have to re-enable my account so that Valve can authorise the game I bought over the counter in a box.