Steam is actually the reason why I can skip the optical drive from any systems I build nowdays, since everything is available by digital download. It's also very convenient being able to play my games wherever I happen to be, without having to cart around dozens of disks (if I even have a disk reader of any kind available).īasically, as much as it does have some downsides, mostly because it allows DRM bundling and doesn't allow skipping updates, it's still the best option available for a great many games. I've never had any major issues with it, except the autoupdate of KSP breaking all my mods once. Further, steam doesn't require DRM at all, that would be the publishers insisting that all their titles have DRM regardless of venue. Until publishers start offering games on GOG at release, steam is the *least* intrusive, annoying and unpleasant option available. Steam is just pointless, intrusive, resource consuming, DRM bundling, login requiring, surprise update springing, advertising ridden middleware. Bill is however a friend of mine.ĭunno 'bout ferret, but I for one hate Steam with a passion.Īnd it hasn't even done anything particularly horrible to me. Ram is 2048Mb, i know its not the minimal amount but i was able to run KSP before just fine with it, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1,build 7601), No mods installed, Procceser or is a Intel (R) Pentium (R) Dual CPU e2180 2.00Ghz (2 CPUs), 2.0GHz DirectX Verison is DirectX 11. ** For those of you who done the search on Google No, I am not Bill McGill. We were GeoRanked (globally) the #1 DoD Avalanche server for 4 years straight. I also had a serious vested interest in the forums, I owned its PsychoStats host. We had several game servers running, of which I owned one (OldSkool). Steam was one of the major factors of the MammJamma DoD Gaming Community dissolving (, I still hold the domain**). I have a serious beef with Steam about this. I'm sure somewhere in a buried PC Gamer magazine there's an article about the outrage and controversy over this as well. I'm sure other games were affected by this move of theirs as well. People were forced to either buy a new computer or do without. It was all thanks to Steam that tens of thousands of players of Half-Life and it's various mods, like DoD, found their games abruptly stop working one year (2004?) - Steam's enforcement of a specific DirectX version, whether or not your game/mod used it. Steam is way too intrusive into ones system, it has been for a long time.
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