| Blackdog_kt |
05-19-2011 04:11 PM |
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Originally Posted by guiltyspark
(Post 285499)
unfortunately gone are the days where pc games can come without some form of security. currently steam is the best solution.
Steam is a fantastic program and i used it with 1946 and a bunch of other games and have no issues modding with it. You can also turn off automatic updates.
Its just smarter to have all your games in one place , you dont have to manage discs which degrade over time and CD keys which you can lose since gone are the days of actual jeweled cases.
i will never understand the hate steam gets in this place
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It's not hate, it's personal preference. For example, i don't want to have all my games on one online account. A single snafu on their part and i lose all my games and before someone says it's impossible, look at what happened to the playstation network recently :-P
In the case of anti-piracy it's not really effective, Steam is the most pirated platform and pirates prefer the steam version of any blockbuster game to do their thing on: they will pre-order, pre-load, crack it (since it's one method for all steam games) and have it up on torrents as much as a week before release.
It's way too easy and even updates and DLC packs are circulating.
As far as real benefits go, the only one is that it gets the game a bigger exposure and a better cut of the selling price for 1c. Everything else is just steam doing what anyone can do on their own anyway, which boils down to personal preference (people who like automation use it, those who like manual tinkering don't).
I'm not going to lie, it works as intended (mostly) expect the fact that it resets auto-updates to on whenever i run CoD and that i really dislike being unable to roll back a patch so i have to make backups of each version and use up my hard drive space, but if i get a way to disable it and only turn it on for patching i will definitely do so. |
