11-08-2010, 12:00 | #21 |
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No, apparently he only played Civ when he felt miserable.
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11-08-2010, 12:24 | #22 |
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Hey he's probably not the only one in this case.
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11-08-2010, 12:51 | #23 |
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You need Steam to just simply play the game, even without patches or playing online. You cannot get the game to work without Steam.
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11-08-2010, 13:05 | #24 |
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No, I am saying that I have different priorities right now compared to 5-10 years ago when I played Civ far more than I do right now.
Now there are just more things that take precedence over playing Civ, so I don't have all that much time to play anyway. And if the publisher then starts making things compulsory to even play the game, then my interest fades even further. I miss the old times when you could just buy a game in a store and just play it. I guess the "gamer" in me is just growing old.
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I realize that. I probably just didn't phrase it that well in my previous post. Nice monopoly position for Steam...
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The other option is that the monopoly lies with the people that aren't paying for the games they play.
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11-08-2010, 14:26 | #27 |
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Which probably was the main (only) argument 2K needed to implement this "solution", I think. I'm not saying it's wrong for them to have done so, I am just saying it is an additional argument for me to consider not buying the game.
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Everything is crackable. The more annoying the security measures are, the more people will use a cracked version.
I probably will buy the game, though. I already installed Steam because of Shabba's tip for that funny strategic space game, I'm still a big enough fan of Civilization in general and no too principle on these matters.
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But you already had Steam for col2...
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That was on another pc.
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