huey_gunner Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 I am currently using Steam version of DCS World. Is there a reason why I should use an independent verion of DCS or DCS Openbeta? I do use a lot of free mod planes currently stored under my (Steam) Openbeta folder. And I currently do not have any DCS or DCS Openbeta (non-Steam) account installed.
Art-J Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 If we skip over the often quoted argument of "you should support the developer directly, avoid the middle-man yadda yadda yadda..." (which is BS argument in my opinion - If ED was so "exploited" by Steam, they wouldn't offer their products on that platform in the first place), I'd say the availability of two-week free trial program is one biggest practical advantage of using standalone DCS. There's just nothing comparable offered by Steam. Moreover, I believe standalone version gets access to new modules a few days sooner, although this difference has been getting smaller recently, down to single hours in the latest releases? Of course, in some countries where Steam charges in local currency and not in USD, purchasing modules on Steam can be much cheaper and I fully understand that, but If you're not located in these countries and prices are comparable on both platforms, I'd go for standalone. 1 i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted January 18, 2023 ED Team Posted January 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, Art-J said: If we skip over the often quoted argument of "you should support the developer directly, avoid the middle-man yadda yadda yadda..." (which is BS argument in my opinion - If ED was so "exploited" by Steam, they wouldn't offer their products on that platform in the first place), I'd say the availability of two-week free trial program is one biggest practical advantage of using standalone DCS. There's just nothing comparable offered by Steam. Moreover, I believe standalone version gets access to new modules a few days sooner, although this difference has been getting smaller recently, down to single hours in the latest releases? Of course, in some countries where Steam charges in local currency and not in USD, purchasing modules on Steam can be much cheaper and I fully understand that, but If you're not located in these countries and prices are comparable on both platforms, I'd go for standalone. steam prices on DCS should match the conversion rate for US dollar in the country where the purchase happens on steam. Sometimes there is a deal to be had as currency prices change but they do get updated. While it is true steam do take a cut, steam offers exposure to millions of users. Of course we would like people to use stand alone, we can off the free trials, 50% discount for first time users, and EDmiles reward program. But it is the consumers choice, either way we are happy. 1 Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
Rudel_chw Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Art-J said: the often quoted argument of "you should support the developer directly, avoid the middle-man yadda yadda yadda..." (which is BS argument in my opinion - If ED was so "exploited" by Steam, they wouldn't offer their products on that platform in the first place) It's not BS, it's obvious that ED receives a larger portion of your spending if you purchase on their store rather than on Steam. Of course it's also obvious that selling via Steam is still beneficial to the developer in spite of Steam's cut (30% is it? ). Wonder where you saw that ED was "exploited" by Steam, as I have never read anything like that on the Forum. Another not mentioned advantage of the ED-store is that they credit you back up to 10% of most purchases, through their ED-miles program. 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
geno75 Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 One of the biggest reasons I run steam is, if there is an update when I get home from work steam has downloaded it for me...and it was simple to set up click the "always keep updated" box or whatever checked in
diego999 Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 56 minutes ago, Art-J said: Of course, in some countries where Steam charges in local currency and not in USD, purchasing modules on Steam can be much cheaper and I fully understand that, but If you're not located in these countries and prices are comparable on both platforms, I'd go for standalone. That's my case. Steam prices are considerable cheaper than ED store. I still play standalone though, I buy the modules on Steam DCS and then transfer the licenses to standalone DCS. There's that option too.
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