Bethesda should release a non-steam version of Skyrim and stop forcing people using a software we don't need at all.
And no, I'm not supporting pirates, i just think DRM is getting really annoying and that they should release both versions... In case someone wants to buy the actual physical version.

A concept I support but one which won't happen.

I completely agree. I can't play skyrim on pc because of it.

its ridiculous that game studios go to such extremes to stop piracy when movie studios have full DVD versions floating around 2-3 weeks before it even hits theaters and they dont seem to care.

Yeah...when Steam is locking me out (which happens any time it was planning to update on its next launch, but my Internet is out) I am deprived of my game because I didn't pirate it. Yes, this has already happened with Skyrim. Two days ago, I could only play it because I happened to have read that you could just launch tesv.exe without launching Steam...and the next time Steam worked (a day later), it patched that out without my permission so that I can't do it that way again. From now on, it's up to my ISP and the weather to decide when I can play Skyrim. And why? Oblivion sold just fine without doing this to anyone.

I know gamers who don't have the Internet, by the way. Including the TES fan that introduced me to the series, who likes mods and owns no consoles.

If you need it to play a game (and many in the future no doubt) then you do need it. It is the future of PC gaming so accept it. I have never had an issue with Steam and have been using it for around 2 years.

That's quite circular, seeing as things only become "the future of PC gaming" via being accepted.

It's nice for you that you don't have issues with Steam, due to whatever combination of living somewhere with great Internet, having money for great Internet, only trying to use Steam when it and your Internet want to work, and not having or not caring about games where they force content changes on everyone. Your two years of smooth experience obviously outweigh my three years of continuous bad experience as well as any problems had by other users, ever. Because you can use something, other people should have to.

Remember that the alternative is to just not have the game be Steam. It's not some trade-off to be defended by people with different views of which thing being traded is the more important to consider. The options are have the game be randomly inaccessible to certain people...or don't. The fact that some people don't have trouble with Steam is irrelevant, because with a non-Steam version, they still won't have trouble with Steam.

The reason why they made Skyrim Steam exclusive is not because of piracy (Note: Steam doesn't stop pirates, in fact it's the worst copy protection ever), but because they are too lazy to distribute the game whitout it.

P.S. Too good they didn't use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSxiz9yWJfQ!

Which is why Steam is becoming the future of PC gaming - it IS accepted almost universally, except by a tiny handful of extremely vocal opponents who primarily play AAA console port games like Call of Duty, and, obviously, Skyrim. Go elsewhere in PC gaming, and you'll see near-universal love for Steam.