Empire using Steam; Gamespot interview/preview

[DisruptorX]

I was never a big fan of steam. Mostly because I was first exposed to it back in the 'MUST BE ONLINE TO PLAY YOUR GAMES, EVEN IN SINGLEPLAYER' days. And I didn't do my research before I bought Half Life 2, so I didn't know it required online activation to play, back in the day when we were on 56k, and my gaming computer wasn't on the internet at all.
And the forced updates, over 56k, sometimes meant that if I wasn't careful I ended up waiting for a week while the download went on ._.

Fortunatly we have DSL now, so its all better.

HL 2 always required activation, but its always had offline mode. I first beat it only playing it when my net connection was down.

[katar]

i`m going to have think a while about this one and look deeper into Steam to see what it`s like from people who use it a lot.

on the plus side i am heartily glad that securom has been rejected as a choice for the game... it was always far too invasive a program for my liking.