DieHard Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 My DCS Warthog and Black Shark were purchased before DCS_World came along, not using Steam. I have the latest update of DCS_World with all the modules except CA, not using Steam. I just upgraded my Alienware Aurora R-3 with a single Asus Nvidia GeForce 4GB GTX680 purchase from NewEgg about 3 weeks ago. With that purchase I got the Metro: Last Light game free. I installed it like any other game, but it installed Steam. Then I did the process to install Metro: Last Light. I cannot find the Metro download files in My Computer. Looks like my download is contained within Steam, somewhere. If Steam goes belly up out of business, how does my copy of Metro: Last Light function? Metro: Last Light is my only Steam game. Why Steam? What is the advantage? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
KaspeR32 Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 Steam is the best thing for PC games since... PCs. It keeps all your games (if you choose to get them through steam) on a cloud, and you can download/play whichever games you feel like playing, with one convenient user name, on multiple computers. There are always great sales on games via steam, as well as package deals sometimes. Most games that even auto-update (Planetside 2) even work through steam fine. Once you get used to it, and start consolidating your games through steam, you'll love it. Intel i5-2500k @ 4.4GHz w/ H70 liquid cooler, ASRock PRO3-M Z68 Mobo, 32G 1600Mhz Mushkin RAM, EVGA GTX970 4GB , OCZ Agility 3 128g SSD, SanDisk 240g SSD, Win7 64-bit --Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/livingfood --
Cookie Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 What is the advantage? Exposure to the mass market. And no, I don´t particularly like Steam either for a bunch of reasons, but as far as gaming is concerned, Steam is the place to be these days. - Two miles of road lead nowhere, two miles of runway lead everywhere - Click here for system specs
pacotito Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 Steam also functions as DRM and people don't seem to complain about it too much. It also incorporates friends,chat both text and voice, and valve anti cheat. Yes the install gets buried in the steam directory by default. The did add an option to specify other directories and you can pick between directories you've added. Gamesave manager also has a feature called steam spreader that will copy the installs to another directory and create all the links so steam can find it. I don't see steam going belly up but I would guess would remove the DRM. Or origin would buy them out. Pacotito I7-5820k@4.5 Z99 extreme4 16gb ddr4 520gb ssd. Gigabyte ssc GTX960 SSC 4gb
Rusty_M Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 You'll find your game files in Drive Letter\(probably program files x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine! http://www.twitch.tv/rusty_the_robot https://www.youtube.com/user/RustyRobotGaming
mmaruda Posted June 1, 2013 Posted June 1, 2013 Steam is basically something like the Satan of gaming wearing a nice suit an smelling all nice. We all know how convenient it is, how the sales enable us to buy cheap, how easy it is to join an MP game with friend etc... What we neglect however is that we no longer own the games we bought - we just have licenses and Steam can take our access any time of the day for any bullshit reason (for example by using a key bought in another region, because you went to the states and wanted to buy a game cheap). It's also DRM and something that killed pre-owned games on the PC. Something that is currently the big discussion in the console world with the new Xblocks announcement has already happened on the PC and noone noticed. Thanks to Steam. Not that I am a big enthusiast on buying used, but some poor kids could easily benefit from some of my older games which I no longer play, but they cannot - thank you Steam. Somehow used books and libraries never hurt the publishers, how come noone ever uses that argument? Another thing is, Steam can change their license whenever they want, of course you can disagree, but then you loose access to all your games. No refund. I am glad that ED does not go to Steam like Bohemia Interactive did with Arma III (I was quite happy without having it installed)
Rotorhead Posted June 1, 2013 Posted June 1, 2013 Generally speaking, the less crap is running on my PC, and the less online services I'm registered into, the happier I am. Therefore, I resisted Steam for quite a time. Then, a game I wanted (Train Simulator, please don't laugh on me guys), required Steam to run. So I kinda had no other chance. Since then, I got used to it. The benefits of easily buying and downloading games without having to register on more and more sites are great. But then there are also issues, as mmaruda already mentioned. When it comes to DCS, I've bought all my modules from ED's shop, and I plan to keep it that way. So please ED, do not make your sims Steam exclusive as long as you can. Thanks!
Darkwolf187 Posted June 1, 2013 Posted June 1, 2013 If Steam goes belly up out of business, how does my copy of Metro: Last Light function? Easy. Put your Steam client into Offline Mode now, and your game will work forever without needing to talk to Steam servers. Done.
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