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Rylie Gayle
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Posted - 2010.03.30 04:00:00 -
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I never used it previous to couple weeks ago and I'm startin to get addicted. Theres alot of great deals, over weekend they had a game called Torchlight for only 5$, and its a great game so far.
Its gfx are about like WoWs, gameplay like diablo. It says its made by devs from Diablo / warcraft series, etc.
Now this week they got the quake series, everything quake, for like 14$
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
Anti Fundie Patrol
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Posted - 2010.03.30 04:11:00 -
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Yup, steam is great
 Originally by: Xen Gin
Originally by: FOl2TY8
I know that some people like to have voluntary periods of abstinence.
Yeah, I use that excuse too.
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.03.30 05:03:00 -
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i almost managed to get myself some pretty good steam burns while straining my pasta the other day.. dangerous work, that is.
oh yeah, and the steam store is awesome, has deals dayly...
Originally by: CCP Shadow
Have you ever wished you could have prevented a train wreck before it actually happened? I need to stop this one before the craziness begins.
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NeoShocker
Caldari
Interstellar eXodus
BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2010.03.30 05:20:00 -
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owner of 240+ steam games here. :) Most of the titles I bought were from great deals. But just becareful what you're buying tho' ... Like Assassin Creed II and R.U.S.E. for example. Third party DRM. :(
I want to get RUSE, but its ubisoft and the DRM. :(
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Sokratesz
Rionnag Alba
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2010.03.30 07:26:00 -
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Was sceptical at first but steam works great actually.
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Emality
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Posted - 2010.03.30 07:32:00 -
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Aye. It's brilliant, though as stated, dangerous. Recently picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum (and Just Cause - but not particularly interested in that) for ú13 even though I had no intention of ever playing it. I just thought checking it out after its positive press was worth it, and right I was! Next lined up in my sites is Napoleon: Total War. Bring on the student loan! =)
PS. If you're on the fence about B:AA, I'd recommend it if you don't have to shell out full price for it. No multiplayer, but a solid, fun 10 hour single player experience.
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Jhagiti Tyran
World Gate Inc
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Posted - 2010.03.30 09:54:00 -
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The Steam store is terrible its like having a game shop with a bargain basket inside your house, so many good bargains it costs me a fortune 
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Iva Posavec
Posavec Innovations
Takhar Matari
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Posted - 2010.03.30 11:27:00 -
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Got 20 games through Steam, prefer to have games with the packaging and discs but Steam is just so quick, see a game I want and within two hours I am playing it.
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Vogue
Mercurialis Inc.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2010.03.30 14:51:00 -
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Really like Steam. For me its best feature is that after a new windows build you do not have to reinstall every computer game that is in Steam. Just run steam.exe and then all your steam games are accessible.
Steam sales are good. Last week i got Left 4 Dead 2 half price - ú14.99 on a two day special offer. And several weeks ago i got Empire: Total War for ú6.99. And the 'squad pack' offer is good value. Got a licensed copy of Battlefield Bad Company for ú22.49 as part of a 4 copy pack for ú89.97.
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Hiryu Jin
Caldari
noXCorp
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Posted - 2010.03.30 15:52:00 -
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I love steam, too...sometimes it's a royal PITA tho.
The only real reason I like it, is cause your games are saved on there and you can install them whenever you want. You don't have to worry about digging up old discs, or find cdkeys.
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Sanguis Sanies
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.03.30 16:12:00 -
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I got steam when I bought DOW II and I initially hated it (yet another program to over-complicate my computer) but I've slowly warmed to it. I think the clincher for me is two things:
1) If you buy a steam game you it gets tied into your account not you computer, so you can have it on your study computer, laptop and gaming computer with no problems.
2) I had an itching for Knights of the Old Republic (the original) and so went to various stores that I had seen it in all those years ago, couldn't find it could only find the sequel (which I bought) talked to the guy behind the counter and he said that they wouldn't be every getting it in Australia again, so went looking for it online, New copies were selling for around USD$80, I then fired up steam and it was on sale for USD$9.99.... yeah, big difference.
I'm currently humming-and-haing about whether to get DOWII: Chaos Rising on steam (USD$44.99) or buy it at the games store (AUD$59.99) the exchange rate is such that it will work out about $10 cheaper to buy it from steam but buying it at the store has two advantages (for me at least, luddite that I am); I will have a physical copy of the game, and I will get three or four special items.
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Dex Timor
Valklear Guard
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Posted - 2010.03.30 17:45:00 -
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Edited by: Dex Timor on 30/03/2010 17:50:37
Initially when there were only Valve games on steam there was no reason to use it for anything other then those games.
Now I love it. I love that I don't need to get the CD/DVD from the shelf just to run a game which has 99% of it's files on my HD anyway. I also like that they support indie game developers to a certain degree.
On the other hand steam is also a DRM system to a limited degree. Less intrusive and more reliable then what some other publishers try to enforce, but still a DRM system. steam can add a patch without asking you first but it could also remove a game from you. (This only happens with limited time demos, like the L4D trial)
So yeah, I like steam.
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Btw this topic is EvE related because EvE is also available on the steam store. Some of us EvE playing steam users actively help steam customers that want to get into EvE by answering their questions on the steam forum.
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Aganippe
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Posted - 2010.03.30 22:59:00 -
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While we're on the topic of Steam, I recently used it for the first time to buy Mass Effect (not Mass Effect 2). I waited in anticipation for the 5 - 6 hours it took to download, but have yet to play it! It won't launch. I have the initial Mass Effect splash screen, then my computer whirrs, and a Windows dialogue box appears explaining that Mass Effect has stopped working. I've followed the specific instructions to 'run as administrator', but still no joy. My computer runs Vista Home Premium, and the drivers are up to date. Any ideas?
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Xen Gin
Silurian Operations
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Posted - 2010.03.30 23:41:00 -
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Originally by: Aganippe
While we're on the topic of Steam, I recently used it for the first time to buy Mass Effect (not Mass Effect 2). I waited in anticipation for the 5 - 6 hours it took to download, but have yet to play it! It won't launch. I have the initial Mass Effect splash screen, then my computer whirrs, and a Windows dialogue box appears explaining that Mass Effect has stopped working. I've followed the specific instructions to 'run as administrator', but still no joy. My computer runs Vista Home Premium, and the drivers are up to date. Any ideas?
Was that specific instructions to run the game as an admin, or steam itself. Doing the game never fixed it for me, but I had to run steam with elevated permissions, and run ME from it.
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Julius Rigel
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Posted - 2010.03.31 01:02:00 -
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Edited by: Julius Rigel on 31/03/2010 01:06:03
Steam is that extra helping of DRM that sent you to the ER to get your stomach pumped. It's bad enough I have to play through wine, I don't need yet another layer of logins, updates, advertisements and updates and software packages that could fail fantastically at any moment.
Edit: inb4 something about poorf*g get a windows already.
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