With the Orange Box set, Valve is doing something a bit different for
people who already owned parts of it: They can give away their old
copies of whatever they own that's duplicated in the Orange Box.
For example, I owned HL2 and HL2: Ep1, and I then bought the Orange Box.
Through Steam I was able to give away my "old" copies of HL2 and HL2:
Ep1 to a friend for no cost to them or me. That's what your friend is
talking about.
I can't give away Portal, Team Fortress 2, or HL2: Ep2 (as I didn't own
them before).
I think that Steam itself is more anti-piracy and auto-updating then
anything else. The biggest downside of Steam is that the game is
permanently tied to my account, so I can't give the disk to a friend and
let them play it - they need my Steam account to be able to play it. I'm
sure that Valve and other vendors really like that "downside".
Jamie
FORC5 wrote:
sounds interesting. I will investigate further
I always use virtual ROMs so I do not have to play find the CD/DVD game.
fp
At 10:49 AM 11/10/2007, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with:
I think your friend is talking about something else. Steam is the
content delivery service that Valve came up with to combat piracy.
Basically if you have Steam installed and an account you can purchase
games and download them to your HD instead of buying the box and
installing it. The pros are that you don't need to go to the store,
it will automatically patch the games, you don't need a CD in the
drive to play and it links all the Steam games through a pretty good
online community.
The downside is that every time you want to play the game (single
player or multiplayer) it needs to authenticate with the Steam server.
So if the server goes down or your internet connection goes down you
are screwed.
I installed Steam for the first time when I bought the Orange Box and
I have to say it is pretty good. Well coded and gives a consistent
method of installing, updating, uninstalling, and playing all the
games bought through it. And no need to keep a box or CD with a long
number on it handy for when you have to reinstall.
On Nov 10, 2007 12:39 PM, FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pros and cons ?
Have a friend says he can give me some games IF I have a steams account. Isn't
this something to do with cheating or something. Have not investigated. Have
tried to stay clear of games that require these kind of options
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