[Gamma_Draconis]

What's a Steam press account? I'll definitely pick up a few copies of FS1 and FS2 and gift them out if there's a good sale on them.

[jambo]

Press account means I get games dropped in to it for free, cause I'm a reviewer. It's like we normally get sent games in the mail to review, except now it's via steam.

Can't get it to download, keeps doing little bits and stopping. Will try again tonight!

[Colonol Dekker]

I wants your copy of Grim Fandango!

[jambo]

FYI









I have a Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz and 6GB DDR2 btw

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Interplay's been risen from the dead from quite a while. Noticed all the old Fallout, MDK, Earthworm Jim, etc. games on Steam?

To hell with Steam, I'm seeing these games being sold in CDs at my local retailer again at knockdown prices. Even Descent 3's being sold in some crap cover art.

I've yet to see FS1 or FS2 being sold, though.

[Thaeris]

GOG! Fight the DRM!!!

[Colonol Dekker]

Cam i see your fred.hlp file?

I'm intruiged to see if it's been added to.............

[paul1290]

I already have both games in disk form and have purchased Freespace 2 from GoG already, but I think it would be nice if they found their way on Steam too.

If I had to buy again given the choice between GoG and Steam and assuming the Steam version doesn't have any compatibility problems, I'm not sure which one I would pick.


I mean, yes Steam is DRM.
On the other hand it has some nice benefits (easy replacement of bad files, in-game chat, ect). Also, it's done a lot to keep some of my favorite indie developers going (Introversion and Frictional among them). There's also the fact that I probably wouldn't have found some of my current favorite games without it.

It's like the evil umbilical cord that's giving me so much candy that at this point I usually don't care that it's an evil umbilical cord anymore.  

As always your milage may vary.

[Angelus]

Steam is a big pile of ****, which sells/ hosts average games ( in shiny disguise ) to the masses, and forces the user to update the games even if he don't want to. There is more, but i'm to lazy to write an essay about steams slavedriver methods, so i leave it at that.

They should stick with new games, and leave their filthy hands of the classics.

[The E]

Right. Updating is evil. Suuuure.

[karajorma]

It is when you don't want to. And there have been quite a few times I've not wanted the latest patch for some reason or other (for instance what do you do when the patch breaks savegames?).

[Angelus]

Right. Updating is evil. Suuuure.

No updating itself not, at least in most cases.

[Colonol Dekker]

Imagine if SCP made you download every single nightly build, media tweak, revision, upgrade, downgrade, ship fix, effect patch and overwrote your FS2/data folder every time.
 
That's how annoying I find steam.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Imagine if SCP made you download every single nightly build, media tweak, revision, upgrade, downgrade, ship fix, effect patch and overwrote your FS2/data folder every time.
 
That's how annoying I find steam.

Good point. The SCP is updated at almost the same frequency as Avira's antivirus definitions.

And there have been quite a few times I've not wanted the latest patch for some reason or other (for instance what do you do when the patch breaks savegames?).

A bad update is something not unheard of either. While updates in general are good, there are some cases where getting the newest update is actually a worse option than not updating.

Yes, I'm looking at whoever frakked up the light reflection settings in one of the 2008/9 nightlys.

[General Battuta]

Imagine if SCP made you download every single nightly build, media tweak, revision, upgrade, downgrade, ship fix, effect patch and overwrote your FS2/data folder every time.
 
That's how annoying I find steam.

Can't you just turn off automatic updates?

[0rph3u5]

Yes, we can!

"My Games" tab -> dropdown-menu (right click on game) "Properties" -> "Updates" tab

[Androgeos Exeunt]

In that case, there's no issue then.

[redsniper]

Imagine if SCP made you download every single nightly build, media tweak, revision, upgrade, downgrade, ship fix, effect patch and overwrote your FS2/data folder every time.
 
That's how annoying I find steam.

It'd probably cut down on a lot of the tech support threads...

[SpardaSon21]

No, you cannot turn off Steam updating your games.  You can turn off auto-update, but Steam will still force the update on you if you attempt to play the game.

[General Battuta]

Good to know.