Quote Originally Posted by Ignoramus View Post
I have been thinking about purchasing Empire for a long while, but due to not having a machine tough enough to handle have been unable to do so.

Now that I finally have a machine to play it on, I was wondering whether there were any inherent advantages or disadvantages to buying the game in a box form, or downloading via Steam.

Basically, is the box form compatible with Steam? I don't really want to drain my entire month's download downloading Empire from Steam.

Thanks.
Only difference is: Box form you get physical stuff.

Discs may not be recognised. You'll install ETW off the discs, then it will have to download hundreds of megs of patches.

Buy whichever is cheaper.