Steam vs Retail

Spook187

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As the title says,who uses what,the pros and cons.

Yes i use steam and find it very good for the sales but who in their right mind actually buys full price games on steam.

£30 for a new game say and you can find it like £10-15 cheaper from an online retailer.
 
prefer retail because I like to own the disk, I only tend to buy steam when they on specials.
Suppose the other side of the argument is that your disks never get ruined when you buy from steam, D/L always available, only real downside I see on steam is that they tend to be more expensive than disks bought from well knowing on line retailers.
 
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Spook187 said:
As the title says,who uses what,the pros and cons.

Yes i use steam and find it very good for the sales but who in their right mind actually buys full price games on steam.

£30 for a new game say and you can find it like £10-15 cheaper from an online retailer.
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As repeated many times, I love Steam and buy all my games on there now -

- Save game backup
- Auto patch updates
- Stupidly cheap Steam holiday/weekend sales
- Can install on as many PCs as you want
- Can install many games very quickly
- Usage tracking
- Friends easy to keep in touch with

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CaptainRAVE said:
As repeated many times, I love Steam and buy all my games on there now -

- Save game backup
- Auto patch updates
- Stupidly cheap Steam holiday/weekend sales
- Can install on as many PCs as you want
- Can install many games very quickly
- Usage tracking
- Friends easy to keep in touch with

Etc...
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This and Steam on one HDD, OS on the other making formatting a doddle
 
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Well yes but you normally only get hacked if you do something stupid.

You can just as easily say if you get burgled you face the possibility of losing all your games AND your pc/consoles and that is completely out of your hands.

Most successful hacks are the real life equivalent of leaving your front door wide open with a sign up saying you've gone on holiday for 2 weeks so don't leave any milk.
 
Lysander said:
Steam. I cannot be bothered to wait for the disc anymore. I am too impatient.
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+1, allso i dont have a cd-dive. Soo many failed release day deliveries from multiple vendors, (usual friday release, no cd, no delivery till monday/tue etc)only to have go into town to the purple store on release day to find they have in the region of 10 pc-games on display, non of which im after. :(

I allso make belive im funding Half-life 3 with the extra price premium on some games ..somtimes... :(

Edit: allways good to get the odd steam game retail though, for cd-key-backup-if-hacked situation.
 
well on .5mb internet with 56kbs download I have to go with retail otherwise it takes days to download. Plus you have the physical disk and you can keep it. I have used steam for about a day and didn't like it. Maybe not enough time to make a decision but hey, I don't care.
 
What is the to like/not like?

Using Steam
Open Steam. Pick a game. Play it.

Using Retail
Pick a game. Insert CD. Play it.
 
Lysander said:
Steam. I cannot be bothered to wait for the disc anymore. I am too impatient.
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Preorders I tend to get the disc first...

Steam has strict unlock times, discs don't (though thats changing) and means I can generally play early on some big games.

General purchases however I make through steam just to have them all in one place.
 
I buy Steam games when they are on sale. I bought one release-day game from there, Bioshock 2 for -20% (£26) but it came with Bioshock 1. Even then I should have waited. I can see the appeal of boxed games on a console but not so much on the PC because you have to tie them in with some account or other so the disc just becomes a necessity to run a game already installed on your hard-drive rather than an uncompromised item with some value.
 
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