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I don't use steam.
Poll: Anybody here refuse to use Steam?
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This is my only concern with using steam. I think it's done wonders for the pc scene, but the fact that someone can quite literally take all your games from you like a mummy punishing her child is scary.
Yes, you can argue "well then don't cheat, hack etc and your account will not be closed", but surely sometimes valve must get it wrong, just like our justice system does.
Option d) for me. I do use GOG though, and will use other digital download sites if I'm happy with their T&Cs.
As Surfer said, I dislike retail disc games coming with Steamworks requirements (one of the reasons I decided not to purchase New Vegas, even though it's by a favourite developer of mine).
As Surfer said, I dislike retail disc games coming with Steamworks requirements (one of the reasons I decided not to purchase New Vegas, even though it's by a favourite developer of mine).
VAC is automated, it has no human involvement so there is no room for error. Actually, I think it went wrong once last year when thousands of people were wrongly banned (from MW2 I think it was), but that was quickly corrected. Also, contrary to popular belief, VAC bans are not universal, if you are banned in one game that does not carry over to all other VAC games. Only those games on the same engine.
I don't know anything about this Paypal issue, but I would imagine the innocent got their accounts back?
I'm not surprised people are concerned about having hundreds of independent titles under the control of one company, but put plainly, if you abide by Valves perfectly reasonable rules, you have nothing to worry about.
It's helping it, for sure, but it's not helping it get back on its feet, because it was never off them.
Indeed, I've not seen anything as unprecedented as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 in recent years.
I dislike buying anything that isn't on steam nowadays. Really like not having to worry about dvd's in the drive, among other things.
Steam is also god send if you ever need to reinstall windows, shudder to think how long it would take to reinstall everything with dvd's and having to worry about patching.
Steam is also god send if you ever need to reinstall windows, shudder to think how long it would take to reinstall everything with dvd's and having to worry about patching.
yep exactly.
also, i have never had any problems accessing games without internet access.
my net was down for 3 days, and i played all games with no problems.
i was also able to switch between my laptop and pc with same account in offline mode.
And the reason being over-saturated market.
Today we're lucky to get 8 or so releases a year, give or take. And it's still growing so they're doing something right.
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I hope that's a dramatic under-exageration.
I'm not really including xpacs or indie games etc. Just AAA.
Even then I'm probably off the mark.
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I think Steam is great BUT I always worry when a single company has such a hold on any market. As I also like Impulse, D2D and GreenManGaming it would be nice if they gained a larger share of the market. Might lead to even better deals for us customers too.
very true. some competition around the corner means lower prices
And the reason being over-saturated market.
Today we're lucky to get 8 or so releases a year, give or take. And it's still growing so they're doing something right.
That is simply not true, there's plenty of releases. It's just that many of the games that are really over-hyped are console ports (over-advertised would be a more appropriate word for them) and the smaller ones don't get that much attention.
I'm not really including xpacs or indie games etc. Just AAA.
"AAA" doesn't indicate the quality though, we get multiple COD games each year that are classed as "AAA", and they're crap.
"AAA" to me is just defined by whether the game far beyond being "good".
Yeah, my example of COD fits with this. Loads of games are hyped and over advertised, and sell simply because of this, even if they're crap.
People still enjoy CoD for some reason, I hated every single release after CoD:4 (and only liked the first one before) and some two Medal of Honor titles. And yet such games enjoy being overhyped and praised by massive numbers of plebs.
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I'm kinda indifferent to it really. When it first came out, I couldn't see the need for it. Now, its only use to me is auto updates. Other than that it's just another layer between me and the game I want to play.