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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2014, 06:13:41 pm »
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So Steam should never have sales on games that have been sold for a full price ever before? Do you know what the definition of a sale is?
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2014, 06:19:20 pm »
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Buy the game for full price, steam has a sale on that exact game one week later.

Good guy steam, yeah right.

You are not forced to buy anything.
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2014, 06:20:12 pm »
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Thing is, they're trying to get mod support on themselves aswell. But the restrictions they put on the mods you are allowed to upload limits the creativity.

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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2014, 06:23:59 pm »
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I'm guessing it is probably due to lacking infrastructure capabilities that they currently limit the size of the mods in the workshop. Becoming a large scale filehoster, with an audience as large as Steam has, is no easy undertaking, especially if they don't compensate with ads and whatnot.

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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2014, 11:57:00 pm »
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Seeing those view numbers I'm starting to suspect this is perhaps some facebookish inflated count thing.

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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2014, 07:17:12 am »
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You are not forced to buy anything.
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2014, 09:01:10 am »
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #23 on: July 24, 2014, 10:22:04 am »
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Steam did really come along way from 2007 when I joined it first, I really can't imagine my gaming done in any way other than via Steam, sure I do play games off Steam but I consider my main platform and gaming life on Steam.

Steam ofc isn't flawless and in recent year of them trying to be more open and friendly to indie developers with Greenlight and workshop, things didn't really turn out well and we have seen an influx of shit undeveloped games and a bombardemnt with "new titles" that just became a joke from developers of cheap casual games, Steam needs to take that control back, be more serious with their quality control or else you will be floded with crap and the only thing that will stand out are either big big AAA titles vs the rest of the crap and some real gems will be lost in the mass of crap. I will not even touch the early acess thing, that is a subject for itself.

Also I hope they don't lose the track of what I wrote above with their push into living rooms and competing with console market. Maybe the above is planned in such way just because of it, I wouldn't know.

All in all big up for Steam, let's just hope they still remember the PC crowd in the years to come, the crowd that made them what they are today  :wink:
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #24 on: July 24, 2014, 10:29:53 am »
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The only thing I dont like about steam is that you cant play your games without being online.   :?
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #25 on: July 24, 2014, 10:40:47 am »
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The only thing I dont like about steam is that you cant play your games without being online.   :?

If you've got your games installed then yes you can, you start in offline mode lol.

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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #26 on: July 24, 2014, 10:42:33 am »
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They changed that?


wow, just fucking wow..

Last month I didnt have internet for 10 days, and I had installed Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, and I though I couldnt play them  :lol:
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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #27 on: July 24, 2014, 10:52:47 am »
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They changed that?


wow, just fucking wow..

Last month I didnt have internet for 10 days, and I had installed Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, and I though I couldnt play them  :lol:

To my knowledge you've been able to do it for years lol. Some people have problems with it but I've not had any myself when I've needed to use it.

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Re: The Power of Steam
« Reply #28 on: July 24, 2014, 11:10:26 am »
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They changed that?


wow, just fucking wow..

Last month I didnt have internet for 10 days, and I had installed Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, and I though I couldnt play them  :lol:

Haha you've been able to do it for years. Me and my dad use the same account, he just downloads a game and plays them offline so he doesn't log me out. We've been doing that for about 5 years  :lol:

I also downloaded and played them offline when I was in India due to unreliable internet.

The only issue is if you go online, a game starts updating, and then you lose internet. You can't play because it won't let you until the update has fully downloaded.

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