Yes, you pay online and the game is then locked to your steam account. I normally order my steam CD keys from g2play.net though as they are normally cheaper!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: 18 February 2010 17:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Strong recommend Thanks for the rec. For Steam games, do you get and pay for it online? Are there some demos around? I've sort of fallen out of gaming mode over the last few years. One game i used to really enjoy was Tanarus - a tank game. Team based. Too much fun. That was way, way back in the day...that would be too cool now with all this bandwidth, CPU/GPU power we have today. On 2/18/2010 12:08 PM, Brian Weeden wrote: > I'm playing Mass Effect 2 right now and it is amazing. It's more of an > action-drama movie than anything else. There is some FPS content but it's > not much. Highly recommended. > > I would also suggest you check out Plants vs Zombies on Steam. Great Popcap > tower defense game, lots of replay value. > > --------------------------- > Brian Weeden > Technical Advisor > Secure World Foundation<http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > +1 (202) 683-8534 US > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote: > > >> I know my Sony BD player is dog slow...gawd...it got so bad that I ordered >> an OPPO 83...and I just got it a few minutes ago...didn't really want to >> drop dough on that...but now I can play my SACD and DVD-Audio discs as well. >> The Sony will move upstairs. >> >> Speaking of games...anyone know of a good non-FPS that runs on 64-bit >> Windows 7? FPS games make me ill. I just want something to kill time that >> doens't take an huge investment of time to learn. Some simulations seem so >> serious in terms of learning curve. They then sit in the box. >> >> >> On 2/18/2010 11:05 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: >> >> >>> Optical drives are dog slow and that includes the speed of the door >>> opening and closing. Plus some games require that you have the disk in the >>> drive and did I mention that the door is slow. Swapping disks is such a >>> pain... >>> >>> >>> On 2/18/2010 9:41 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I want to ask this for information purposes only...why bother ripping DVD >>>> and Blu-rays? I've done this...and frankly, I've lost interest in doing >>>> it. >>>> But I get the impression that some here are ripping multitudes of movies to >>>> magnetic media...I have a large collection of Blus and DVDs, but I don't >>>> watch anything frequently enough to need it online (like in my house). For >>>> new content, it does make some sense, though, if you don't want to own the >>>> content you an download it...but if I want to watch upstaris rather than >>>> down, then I just go get the disc...I'm not too lazy YET to do that...and >>>> it's way better than having an HD farm that sucking down juice 24/7 (it >>>> occurs to me that cheap HDs make this all too tempting to do, though, so I >>>> can get that). At least to me it is.... >>>> >>>> On 2/18/2010 10:23 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> That would be cool for BD when I decide to take the plunge and buy a >>>>> BD-ROM. For DVD's I just have AnyDVD rip it to hardrive as an ISO. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 2/17/2010 6:08 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> www.makemkv.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe one of the coolest tools I've used in forever. Instant, no >>>>>> compression conversion of BD and DVD. If your running mce and your used >>>>>> to >>>>>> archiving your content to use the movie library (or I use Mediabrowser >>>>>> and >>>>>> MyTv) then this comes as one of the best tools I've seen in years. >>>>>> >>>>>> It just works. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent via BlackBerry >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>>>> Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 >>>>> 02:34:00 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 >>> 02:34:00 >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 > 02:34:00 > > This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. 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