Empire using Steam; Gamespot interview/preview

[Praxil]

I'll admit to some curiosity as to how online play works, especially as regards Steam's matchmaking abilities. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Ahmm...

I don't think that there are that many PC games out there using "matchmaking" to find the "right" opponents for you. Anyway, Valves own games have their in built server searching options, quite poor like in any other games. As far as it goes for server browsers The All-Seeing Eye was something unique, now Qtracker does the job fairly.

[Polemists]

Much like spore. Many of us without internet, or a solid internect connection ( I live in Saudi Arabia, try getting a solid connection not at work, I dare you.) will do what we did with spore

[No discussion of game cracks please. -- Martok]

It's not pirating, but if I pay 60$ for a game, I'm not going to be forced online to activate it. Several games in past have required such, as usual in 3 hours after release, someone figures a way around it. I'm not going to download it but nor am I playing the I'm paying 60$ to only install it 10 times game.

[edyzmedieval]

I love Steam. My Steam account has around 15 games, but to be honest im not too happy that we have to go on Steam to play ETW.