Civ V and Plants Vs. Zombies. Both great games. Sent via BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:22:27 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] OT - Annual Steam holiday sale is on!
Ok...I got an account...anyone have a recommendation for something on sale that is NOT a FPS...those make me ill. On 12/28/2010 9:44 AM, Brian Weeden wrote: > Steam is a service for buying and installing games digitally. It also has a > lot of community features and online play, similar to Battle.net and other > services, but there are Steam games which are single player, multiplayer, > and co-op. > > Not only does it mean you can buy and install game without having to go to a > store, it also keeps track of all the games you've bought so you can > download and re-install at any time. And for many games it also backups > your saved games and settings to the Steam service. You can also download > and install Steam games on multiple computers at the same time, you can just > only be logged in to one computer at a time. > > I pretty much buy all my games through it when possible and love it. > > ----------- > Brian > Follow Me [image: LinkedIn]<http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianweeden> [image: > Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/brianweeden> > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sounds good. So, if you have to reformat can you download it again? >> >> >> On 12/28/2010 9:25 AM, Mini Me wrote: >> >>> When the original Half Life 2 was being developed some hackers got the >>> code and released it onto the Internet. This pissed off Valve and delayed >>> the release of the game for many months until they developed Steam to >>> control the distribution of their software. There are many games from many >>> developers there now and its a huge improvement over the broken DRM crap >>> that many games are released with today that require you have the CD in your >>> drive while playing etc. I was dead set against Steam when it came out but >>> now I like the fact the social aspects of it and that I can buy a game >>> online and pay for it with PayPal and download it to my PC. Rather nifty >>> actually.. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:09:29 -0600, Anthony Q. Martin< >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Is Stream online only? How does it work? >>>> On 12/28/2010 8:48 AM, Mini Me wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yep, Half Live and Half Life 2 were great games and I played them many >>>>> many hours back in the day. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:57:04 -0600, Veech<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If you haven't yet experienced the Orange Box, this is a great time to >>>>>> do so. >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mini Me"<[email protected]> >>>>>> To:<[email protected]> >>>>>> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 18:41 >>>>>> Subject: Re: [H] OT - Annual Steam holiday sale is on! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll have to check that out. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:49:51 -0600, Brian Weeden< >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Steam is having their annual 2-week holiday sale with tons of great >>>>>>>> games. >>>>>>>> Always good to pick up some stuff for cheap after the holidays. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --------- >>>>>>>> Brian >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: >>>>>>> http://www.opera.com/mail/ >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>
