gengrimm Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 What ever happened to the days of buying a game, installing it and playing without going through an annoying 3rd party piece of adware software?! (Thinking Back To The Good 'Ol Days) They were brutally murdered with the rise of Torrent Software and High Speed internet Connections, and the inevitable rise of the pirate industry of Retail Software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunnie Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I Think Steam Suxs! (Just Saying) What happens when/if steam ever goes out of business?! (Real Question) Then we all lose access to our games, thats what! (Speculation) What ever happened to the days of buying a game, installing it and playing without going through an annoying 3rd party piece of adware software?! (Thinking Back To The Good 'Ol Days) You mean the days of putting a heavily copy protected disk in 2 different drives and having the installer spit in your face becasue the drives firmware was dated and couldn't navigate all the error conditions on said disk? Or the days where you had to keep the game disk in the drive regardless of installing the entire game on the HDD? No, I don't miss those days at all. I'll also take Steams DRM over Ubisoft/Blizzard's always-on-to-play-a-single-player-game DRM any day. And Adware? Really? lol. Ok, if you say so. It's a Storefront, it's made as a place to buy games, if you hadn't noticed. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexusRanger Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Seeing as the kindly Admin known as The Vampire Dante has already graced us with his presence once in response to Taekra's comment, let us not tempt him to shut down the thread entirely by "feeding the trolls", shall we? :ermm: Move along, folks... there's nothing to see here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakire Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I love seeing all those people almost telling us they're pirates.. Makes me laugh everytime! Skyrim CAN'T be played WITHOUT STEAM in ANY way!!! And steam automatically patches Skyrim.. Hope we get 1.4 soon, CK will follow with that one!! :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thasic Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I don't mind Steam. In some ways I find it very useful. I can buy any game on the day it comes available without waiting or going to a store. When I buy a game it downloads fully patched. When i finish a game I can take it off my computer and still have the game available if i want to use it again later. I have access to sales ( I almost always buy my games on sale) without stalking store shelves looking for the best prices Steam is unobtrusive and easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 What ever happened to the days of buying a game, installing it and playing without going through an annoying 3rd party piece of adware software?! (Thinking Back To The Good 'Ol Days) They were brutally murdered with the rise of Torrent Software and High Speed internet Connections, and the inevitable rise of the pirate industry of Retail Software. And how does steam prevent any of that? Short anwers: It doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomo Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I would very much like to be able to download this mod too, since for some reason, I didn't even get steam along with my Skyrim copy. It just installed directly to desktop without even installing Steam on my computer.Bought it from a local mall haha, but there shouldn't be any difference buying it there or at a game retailer so I don't know.. D: Every copy, including retail copy, installs Steam. Are you sure you don't have steam? If you are, you just bought a pirated copy - I'd take it back and get your money back. Yep I agree with you fully. If I buy a box game I shouldn't have to be forced to use an intrusive adware like steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showatt Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 " I love seeing all those people almost telling us they're pirates.. Makes me laugh everytime! Skyrim CAN'T be played WITHOUT STEAM in ANY way!!! And steam automatically patches Skyrim.. Hope we get 1.4 soon, CK will follow with that one!! :3 " ^ lol ignorance is bliss I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted1308005User Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 " I love seeing all those people almost telling us they're pirates.. Makes me laugh everytime! Skyrim CAN'T be played WITHOUT STEAM in ANY way!!! And steam automatically patches Skyrim.. Hope we get 1.4 soon, CK will follow with that one!! :3 " ^ lol ignorance is bliss I guess. Says person who resurrected ancient thread. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfurius Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 uuuuuh, Is this thread really 2 years old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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