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Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane
Don't like it, don't use it.
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It isn't that easy as I'm
forced to use it
whether I like it or not.
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Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane
edit: For fun, compare the recent battlefield rollout debacle EA became muddled up in for a a good example of what really constitutes a bad gaming electronic delivery service these days.
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Boohoo poor BF gamers who had to wait a few days for their braincell-massacre. Boohoo
Tooo sad (looks staged for me tbh - let them wait for a couple of days, driving them crazy enough to even use origin w/o reading the eula)
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Originally Posted by TheChosen
And even if it did finally kill retail, thats just normal human progress. Running a digital distribution business is also a job, and not some front run by a robots thats going to take all the jobs from retailers.
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Yep it is "progress" and economy is hard and unforgiving. That doesn't mean I have to like and support it just because I know and agree that's the way it is. Slowing the so called progress down is a form of resistance, too.
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Originally Posted by TheChosen
Steam's DRM is at minimalistic as possible. All you need to do is log online. With nearly everyone having a internet access these days, its as basic as walking to a mailbox. Inconveniences happen, but that applies to the mailbox trip as well.
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As I wrote: with the smallest effort @ DRM. It's no mircale it doesn't take a couple of hours to crack DRMs
btw, I wouldn't call my mailbox - spybox. Srsly, do you know what Steam is looking for? It's updating like everyday but I don't see any changes so far. Well, lets be optimistic and a bit naive: perhaps it's just the ads
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Originally Posted by TheChosen
I feel you for the Windows Live account thing. Thats plain awful system. Games being 11 GB...yeah, thats todays games, but that has nothing to do with Steam (and quite frankly, Steam downloads 11 gigabytes quite easy, like say, utorrent). Elaborate more on the "purpose" and microjunk points and what does that have to do with Steam?
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uhm, you need a coffee? I need one now
yea 11 GB is today's games. But it's still a PITA if you want to play a new game NOW and Steam has a bad day and your dl "crawls" there between 200 and 300 kb/s... I still like the concept that I have a coupon with a number and all that. Kinda cool. But waiting many hours is bah.
And what have microjunk points to do with that? Well, I talked about Dirt 3. Some Rallye racing game you get for free with some voucher when you buy a graphics card. There are various Dirt 3 Edition graphics cards out there f.e. - mine isn't but the game respectively the coupon was in there and it was kinda nice to save like 40 bucks and get a "free" game.
But obviously it's a sugar-coated decoy to lure you to Steam and Windows Live as you need both accounts to get that game running. And if you want all the cars and extras you need the microsoft points and exchange them on the microjunk marketplace (some software you have to install, too). And then the Odyssey begins. I'm not a big fan of "points" at all. Whereever you get them.
May it be the gas station or the drugstore. Their only purpose is to get your adress and bombard you with ads for useless junk you can get in exchange for them points.
So no, I won't start with that. I have to admit I looked for a free way to get this points first but then BAM. "What the actual fuck am I'm doing here?" - ran through my head as I found myself on market research websites where they wanted my e-mail addy. Pulled the handbrake there literally.
I'm still like WTF when I think back to this. xD
^^ kinda embarrassing
next step on this Odyssey: to get Dirt 3 running you have to start 2 of my favourite windows services.
The intelligent background transfer service and windows update. I hate both of them and they're always de-activated. I get my updates from other sources for dunno as long as I used xp. Could be 10 years or more.
But ok, to play the game I activated them and got M$ infamous patch which checks if I have a legal windows copy and probably other stuff as well. Not a big problem... at all?
Not if you don't care about your information. I do and what gives me the creeps & headaches is how tough corporations fight to get your information these days.