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Munkeh111 on 28 January 2009

Why is there hate for steam? zkuq, would you prefer that they did nothing to stop piracy?



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shio on 28 January 2009
Zkuq said:
Lucky me for not being interested in the 19th century... I like or maybe even love Rome: Total War (my first and currently the only game in the series). Unfortunately I do have some interest in this, too.

Now, lucky it is because I hate Steam. Steam is DRM, DRM is bad. Simple as that. I don't care if DRM causes problems or not as that's not what I hate in DRM. What I hate in DRM is the restrictions. They restrict my rights as a customer.

If it didn't have Steam as DRM, it would have another DRM. Atleast Steam gives you ALOT of great features that improves your gaming experience, such as auto-patching, friends list, ingame web-browser, no disc check, etc...

 



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Munkeh111 on 28 January 2009

@ shio, do you mean that you never have to put your disc in to play? The problem is that the last Total War game took up over 10GBs...



non-gravity on 28 January 2009

To quote Gabe Newell, head of Valve: "As far as DRM goes, most DRM strategies are just dumb. The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value (make it easy for me to play my games whenever and wherever I want to), not by decreasing the value of a product (maybe I'll be able to play my game and maybe I won't)."



non-gravity on 28 January 2009

@ Munkeh111
No you never have to put your disc in. Atleast not with Valve games as I only own those on steam



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Munkeh111 on 28 January 2009
non-gravity said:
@ Munkeh111
No you never have to put your disc in. Atleast not with Valve games as I only own those on steam

I do like that. I get the benefit of having the physical copy (I am getting the Special Edition) and the convenience of a digital copy!



non-gravity on 28 January 2009

Throw away the disc after activation if you like cause you'll be able to download it whenever and wherever you want



shio on 28 January 2009

All Steam-integrated games don't need the disc to play. By "Steam-integrated" I mean any game bought on Steam, and any retail copy that uses Steam as DRM.

edit: beaten



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Munkeh111 on 28 January 2009
non-gravity said:
Throw away the disc after activation if you like cause you'll be able to download it whenever and wherever you want

Would you really do that?

I just re-read the system specs, I thought it said 1.5GB required, but no it is 15GB!!!! A step up from MII's 7.52GB, the second largest programme on my computer



non-gravity on 28 January 2009

You're right I could melt the CD and sell the material to get some penny out of it.