Steam Commentors

[addman]

I'd like to add to this that I think Steam is a great service, it has some minor quirks but compared to everything else out there it is king, for many reasons.

[ElAurens]

Steam was not Ubisoft's idea, it was the Russian publisher 1C's, as was the name change.

Ubisoft is not the big "villain" that so many like to make them out to be, at least in this case.

[nearmiss]

El Aurens, I won't disagree with you about it. I do recall there were issues with piracy in Russia that were serious and needed to be fixed somehow.

Regardless, the deed is done.

I remember Oleg did one of those piracy protection things with PE-2 and it bombed. He stopped that after the one experience.

Steam is a good way to distribute patches fast. Once you learn your way around Steam it's OK.

Most important, I remember just as many postings about issues people had setting up and installing IL2 and it was from CD. I think some people will have issues regardless of Steam or no Steam.

[Rowddy]

burn steam burn

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

El Aurens, I won't disagree with you about it. I do recall there were issues with piracy in Russia that were serious and needed to be fixed somehow.

Regardless, the deed is done.

I remember Oleg did one of those piracy protection things with PE-2 and it bombed. He stopped that after the one experience.

Steam is a good way to distribute patches fast. Once you learn your way around Steam it's OK.

Most important, I remember just as many postings about issues people had setting up and installing IL2 and it was from CD. I think some people will have issues regardless of Steam or no Steam.

I cannot disagree with any of this.

Or, as one forum luminary puts it... Agree 100%

[TheEditor]

I was already using steam before and didn't have a problem with it. Steam has great sales. I'm more worried about the state of CloD.

The IL2 crowd here hate change. That is why they hate steam. Its the mentality of "I got by without it before, why do I need It now." Their old and set in there ways. Now get off my lawn.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by TheEditor

I was already using steam before and didn't have a problem with it. Steam has great sales. I'm more worried about the state of CloD.

The IL2 crowd here hate change. That is why they hate steam. Its the mentality of "I got by without it before, why do I need It now." Their old and set in there ways. Now get off my lawn.

I'd agree with that.

[addman]

Originally Posted by TheEditor

I was already using steam before and didn't have a problem with it. Steam has great sales. I'm more worried about the state of CloD.

The IL2 crowd here hate change. That is why they hate steam. Its the mentality of "I got by without it before, why do I need It now." Their old and set in there ways. Now get off my lawn.

I'm gonna go ahead and put one of them +1's right here -> +1

[JG53Harti]

Originally Posted by TheEditor

The IL2 crowd here hate change. That is why they hate steam.

If the patch is out next years and you cant play/patch the game because of steam having trouble for more than one day, I will see your comment...

[II/JG54_Emil]

Originally Posted by TheEditor

I was already using steam before and didn't have a problem with it. Steam has great sales. I'm more worried about the state of CloD.

The IL2 crowd here hate change. That is why they hate steam. Its the mentality of "I got by without it before, why do I need It now." Their old and set in there ways. Now get off my lawn.

It sounds ok as long as everything runs fine.

It sucks when it breaks and you can´t access any of the games you bought, like it happend yesterday for entire German Steam community for 24h.

If for some reason Valve goes broke or isn´t reachable anymore you can forget about all of your games.

I call that very risky.


The fact that steam makes great sales means nothing to your rights or security.