Whats with all the extra cloud software I dont want.

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I haven't bought any games in a while because I have only really played Lord of the Rings Online for the past 4 years.

Lately I've started looking at other games, and the first 2 I have bought are Civilization 5 and FIFA 12.

Now these are games I mainly intended to play single player, without needing to use the internet. Thats what I thought.

Both make it compulsory to download some cloud software (Origin, Steam), update this software continuously even though it has nothing to do with your game, create an online account that gives them info that again is not needed to play the damn game.

Is this the norm now? Is every single game I play going to have a bloody social network attached to it. At least it could be optional when the game itself is perfectly playable standalone.
 
It is the norm I am afraid - In FIFA's defence once installed with internet you don't need to worry about the updates but its just how people like it these days and if I am honest with you the fact it brings people together in to a community is always a good thing.
 
What happens if the companies behind these Digital Distribution outlets go bust? Do people lose the ability to play and update the games that are tied to said DD stores?
 
Plus I back up all my steam games to my server, a nice big folder of installation files. When i reformat or uninstall games, I can load them back on using this back up. Brilliant
 
Having one is alright.. don't like the way things are heading with more or less every publisher cooking up their own software

Was so much simpler when we only had to deal with steam :P
 
You can certainly run Steam in offline mode, not sure about Origin. So once activated, you don't really need to reconnect to the networks.

What else do you expect as games publishers strive to beat piracy?
 
You can certainly run Steam in offline mode, not sure about Origin. So once activated, you don't really need to reconnect to the networks.

What else do you expect as games publishers strive to beat piracy?

I know that, I'm just saying i can see it becoming an irritation in the long run if you happen to enjoy several different genres which are all attached to their own publisher/cloud software

It had a lot more to do with not being happy at steam having a monopoly on digital distribution than it did countering piracy (which imo they did ok at)
 
My post was in response to the op not yours, I agree with what you said.

I hate having two cloud distributions (Steam, Origin), I know people who have four or five.
 
I will agree, steam is fantastic and really has turned around the whole PC games industry. Also the amount of money I have saved buying games in Xmas/halloween offers is brilliant as well :)
 
Well I'm glad someone enjoys this rubbish. Maybe I am too old school in wanting to be able to install a single player game without needing the internet or needing to give a company my e-mail address and other info.

Beat piracy? Take measures against the pirates, no need to spoil my experience in the process.
 
Well I'm glad someone enjoys this rubbish. Maybe I am too old school in wanting to be able to install a single player game without needing the internet or needing to give a company my e-mail address and other info.

Beat piracy? Take measures against the pirates, no need to spoil my experience in the process.

no one is spoiling anything stop being such a drama queen. steam is essential like your internet browser and windows get over it.
 
no one is spoiling anything stop being such a drama queen. steam is essential like your internet browser and windows get over it.

So its essential that I put my data at risk fom hackers (see all the news about Steam being hacked), without a choice other than not play a game at all, when its perfectly suitable for offline, single player games (see Civ5).

Go ahead, believe that.
 
So its essential that I put my data at risk fom hackers (see all the news about Steam being hacked), without a choice other than not play a game at all, when its perfectly suitable for offline, single player games (see Civ5).

Go ahead, believe that.

If hackers can crack AES-256, I will eat my hat. I use GMail, so I get no spam anyway if they had my email address.
 
For me the pros with steam outway the cons, tho I do sometimes miss the old days... however I really hate having to have lots of different digital distribution clients especially when most of them need to be running to play the games bought/installed through them... nowadays if I need anything other than steam for a game I don't bother with which does mean I'm missing out on 1-2 like BF3 but I really don't need the extra hassle.
 
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