drm games

Because Steam is a very unrestrictive form of DRM compared to some? The same way people don't complain about games once using CD keys.

Even some of the games u dl from steam can run without steam from the install file lol

Some of us complain endlessly about steam and then complain about drm games as well...

Because frankly, I want to play online without Punkbuster being a bitch and complaining about something stupid.
Other than that, I really wish people would qq about it.

Steam has never deleted one of my save files. GFWL on the other hand....

Of all the existing DRMs, Steam is the less bitching one

simply because some work as virus/rootkits and others as normal programs

EDIT: by closing Steam do your system still run any program or service about it ? no!

by closing, say, i.e.: any game with SecuRom or Tages it still run anything behind ? yes!

Origin g0t the germanic banhammer for getting information about hardware and software and sending to their marketing partners

(this was on EULA, you know, the stuff people do not read when installing a game :P)

so, this one fits the spyware category

Because I love Steam.

Steam sucks but has good sales, that's it.

DRM cause a lot of problems, especially DRM's like UPlay. The thing is people usually complain not about the DRM itself but bout the problems it might cause or about the concept of DRM. And since DRMs are associated with stupid marketing campaigns like "Piracy destroys gaming industry" that's understandable.
Personally, I'm one of those that don't like the concept of DRM since it assumes that any gamer is a possible pirate and that any pirate is a buyer if the DRM works.
I didn't have problems with DRMs so far except Ubisoft's DRMs. What really bothers me is that in some cases, even games bought on steam contain other DRMs. Batman AA & AC is a good example. Never had problems with GFWL (in fact I have quite some games on GFWL) but the fact that I have to type 2 passwords & usernames, 2 keys and so on it's frustrating.
The problem with DRMs is that some of them tend to be quite intrusive and do things behind your back. Origin is a good example for this and so is Tages (this crashed my system so many times that I can remember) & the well known StarForce.

steam is not drm, steamworks includes drm.

Steam =/= Steamworks.

There are plenty of games on Steam that can be run directly from the game's exe and don't require steam to even be installed on your computer (once downloaded of course).