Sale is until friday, there's no excuse not to get it guys!
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Sale is until friday, there's no excuse not to get it guys!
I think this belongs in the Orange Box section...
I love Valve.
K... I just bought with the amount left on a visa gift card, finally found something good to purchase with it.
I have a question about steam though, I don't use it much. If I install it on one computer, I can install it on another right? It just deactivates it for the first computer? I have one computer I think it will run better on, but am not sure, so I might need to switch to the other. help?
FFFUUUUU $4 dollars short. :gonk:
PROTIP: Steam is DRM done right.
Also, yelling at IRL friends to finally buy tf2.
3rd'd
Steam is the closest to a perfect way of preventing PC game piracy.
No.
You login via the Steam client, and the server tells the client what games are tied to your account. It then checks for the GCF (Global Cache Files) for each game to see what's "installed."
Then you download whatever you don't have and play it. The games are playable as long as a Steam account with said game is logged in.
It's kinda like XBL Marketplace items, only with the limitation that only the user who bought the item can use it (whereas on XBLM, I can download content and give it to a buddy for him to use, but if he deletes it he can't download it).
Note that steam accounts can be put into offline mode if you want to play at lans.
K, thanks for the help guys. installing now, will play a bit after I finish that project I just remembered is due tomorrow =/.