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andrewas · 08-29-2007, 08:05 PM

Steam is excellent, if circumstances favor it. If you have decent broadband, then its a case of feeding it your credit card details, downloading, and running the game. The game is now bound to your account, rather than your hardware as with some other digital distribution platforms, so you can download it to any computer you can log into Steam from, and the account is permanent so you cannot lose the games - unless you get the account hijacked, but its not hard to keep a computer secure enough to prevent people stealing your password.

(The exception to this is Bioshock, which includes the secuROM DRM on both the retail CD and Steam versions - if anyone from 2K happens across this posting ... you still suck, and would you please get that crap off my machine. Nice game otherwise though, not quite up to the hype but still worthwhile.

Anyway. Best way to see if Steam is for you would be to give it a go, download some demos and see how it works.

08-29-2007, 08:05 PM	#5
andrewas Harper Join Date: October 2, 2001 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Age: 42 Posts: 4,774	Re: Steam? Steam is excellent, if circumstances favor it. If you have decent broadband, then its a case of feeding it your credit card details, downloading, and running the game. The game is now bound to your account, rather than your hardware as with some other digital distribution platforms, so you can download it to any computer you can log into Steam from, and the account is permanent so you cannot lose the games - unless you get the account hijacked, but its not hard to keep a computer secure enough to prevent people stealing your password. (The exception to this is Bioshock, which includes the secuROM DRM on both the retail CD and Steam versions - if anyone from 2K happens across this posting ... you still suck, and would you please get that crap off my machine. Nice game otherwise though, not quite up to the hype but still worthwhile. Anyway. Best way to see if Steam is for you would be to give it a go, download some demos and see how it works.