good to see some magic players here,

i do play on PC but i haven't installed via steam apart from red orchestra,for example i bought magic tactics but not via steam,do you all buy your games via steam or are there games you have played a lot not connected to steam

I would say most of my recent games are on Steam but I still buy discounted/import retail games as they are cheaper and I don't have to download them. Things like The Witcher 2, Max Payne 3 and also some games that are not on Steam at all like Path of Exile, Star Craft 2 and Minecraft.

thats right  i buy alot of discounted retail games,soemtimes like red orchestra you have to install via steam but otherwise like might and magic Iv i don't,i am a bit of a noob with PC games as i only had one recently that can manage older games,can you not play multipalyer unles you upload via steam with your friends or do you have to buy off steam to be connected with your friends

is steam just a shop you have a profile on that records your gaming or is it more than that community wise,i also now have a download limit which effects what/how i buy fortunately i will be moving soon and have more money back so i can scrap my limit,hooray,its quite annoying as i rent movies and download a fair bit off psn too,luckily its not the soccer season so i have more space going

edit,while we are here is anyone interested in this secret world game,i looked for a thread but must have missed it if there was one

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Like others have said, I've played quite a bit in offline mode, so some of this isn't accurate

Hehe, Team Fortress 2 almost has more game time than all other games combined. ^^

Well only games that you buy off steam or are steamworks titles (activate on steam no matter where you buy them) will have things like steam showing what you are playing and being able to send an invite to play. Most games will have some form of internal freinds system for multiplayer tho, it's kinda one of the downsides of the decentralisation of PC gaming as there isn't any unified system, but that freedom is one of the main advantages of PC gaming at the same time.

Steam does have quite a few community features like showing what steam games people are playing, freinds lists, group/clan support and things like that.

I have tight download restrictions and a slow connection so I feel your pain on that. As for the Secret World I am not really an MMO guy and I sure as hell aint going to pay a sub to play one lol.  

Mine is pathetic.

Sid Meier's Civilization V 36h
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II 34h

Total hours 70h
Games played 100%


Then again I do not really like Steam. (The games I bought REQUIRED steam.)

trying to add some people on steam and there is a lot of multiple names it leaves me all confused

@ zarx yuo have download limit and slow connection i am surprised i thought you'd have real network power as you are quite a PC man on here

on't need a great Internet connection to play PC games

I get all mine on steam.

Personally, I love collectable card games, but only play the videogame versions.

I can't rationalize buying boosters.  God knows what they cost now, but way back when they used to be a buck, and you'd hope you'd get one out of 7 cards that were useful.  I used to buy them as a kid only because my allowance was $5 bucks... and the price to rent a videogame was 4 dollars even.  (Well SNES was 4, NES was 2 for 4.)