It's just a Hang Out: Can you please stop whining for five minutes?

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18th-August-2012, 20:41
Colamisu

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Originally Posted by Tassadar

I know Steam isn't cloud gaming, but in terms of having a reliable acces to a game steam puts you at risk because if you lose your account in steam you lose tons of games, physical copies are the safest and onlive is arguably just taking the idea of steam one step further.

It's not really any more dangerous than physical copies. If you can't connect to the publisher's website to verify your game, you can't play the physical copy. If you want reliable access, pirate everything.
18th-August-2012, 20:43
Tassadar

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Originally Posted by Colamisu

It's not really any more dangerous than physical copies. If you can't connect to the publisher's website to verify your game, you can't play the physical copy. If you want reliable access, pirate everything.

Only in certain games however is that the case.
18th-August-2012, 20:43
Colamisu

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Originally Posted by Tassadar

Only in certain games however is that the case.

Indeed. And half of them just require Steam now anyway. :P
18th-August-2012, 20:44
Tassadar

I would presume that it's not easy to lose all your games if you're steam account is banned, it seems very unfair to lose tons of games for minor offences.
18th-August-2012, 20:47
!nstaGib

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Originally Posted by Inferno.

Download more upload speed.

After you download more VRam that is. Helps with those youtube playbacks.
18th-August-2012, 20:48
Nemkoon

InstaGib!
18th-August-2012, 20:51
!nstaGib

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tassadar

I would presume that it's not easy to lose all your games if you're steam account is banned, it seems very unfair to lose tons of games for minor offences.

Yet I've never heard of anyone that's had issues with the service. You can still make physical backups of the games anyhow, and most of my Steam games I have physical copies. And as for the games that you can't buy a physical copy of, I'd say it's much safer to buy through a big service like steam, rather than through some sketchy dev site that might not be around if the dev goes belly up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Colamisu

It's not really any more dangerous than physical copies. If you can't connect to the publisher's website to verify your game, you can't play the physical copy. If you want reliable access, pirate everything.

This. Every since Steam became so popular, a lot of other companies have put in place DRM policies that are pretty sketchy...
18th-August-2012, 20:51
!nstaGib

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Originally Posted by Gig.

InstaGib!

:wav:

It's been far too long since I've been on here :(
18th-August-2012, 20:52
Nemkoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4Rpc7Hgow
Such a good thing to kick Lavos's ass to.
18th-August-2012, 20:54
Englebert3rd

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Originally Posted by !nstaGib

:wav:

It's been far too long since I've been on here :(

Don't owrry, I recently came back too. Felt I should've brought some balance. :wacko:
18th-August-2012, 20:54
Nemkoon

Engle too!
yayz.
18th-August-2012, 20:55
!nstaGib

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Originally Posted by Englebert3rd

Don't owrry, I recently came back too. Felt I should've brought some balance. :wacko:

:P

Last time I was on here, none of the Retro's were on, and I barely recognized anyone. It would seem a lot of people changed their names as well :P
18th-August-2012, 20:55
Nemkoon

Time to check out Space Pirates and Zombies. :wav:
18th-August-2012, 20:55
Nemkoon

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Originally Posted by !nstaGib

:P

Last time I was on here, none of the Retro's were on, and I barely recognized anyone. It would seem a lot of people changed their names as well :P

I'm Nem, if you don't recognize me. :P
18th-August-2012, 20:57
Tassadar

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Originally Posted by !nstaGib

Yet I've never heard of anyone that's had issues with the service. You can still make physical backups of the games anyhow, and most of my Steam games I have physical copies. And as for the games that you can't buy a physical copy of, I'd say it's much safer to buy through a big service like steam, rather than through some sketchy dev site that might not be around if the dev goes belly up.

This. Every since Steam became so popular, a lot of other companies have put in place DRM policies that are pretty sketchy...

I know you can back up the steam games by copying the steamapps folder but some of them will not launch without steam, so if you lose your account you might be screwed. Then again, I've yet to hear of anyone losing their steam accounts.

Also it's funny because I haven't bought a physical disc for a game in a while.