Aliens vs. Predator PC and Napoleon: Total War Incorporate Steamworks, Require Steam

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• Steam doesn't suck. It's easy to copy games another computer with Steam. It's easy to play offline wi... : Dessicator82

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  Agreed. Either they've working on a total rebuild for the last two years or they really are confident tha... : CurbDog
  • I sure hope its the former. I'd love to see a continuous stream of solid innovation coming from inside Va... : kinnoch
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  What are you talking about? Steam is way better than any other service out there... : bloodypalace
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    Way better than the competition doesn't mean it couldn't use a lot of improvements. Let me pull a list... : kinnoch
    • And what i'd really love to see is some type of commitment to develop some open standards. Steam is great... : kinnoch
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      #1 Has been fixed for a long time now, for at least half a year. Shows how often your internet goes down... : Fpsnut
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        It happened to me about 1.5 months ago. Mind letting me know how to get around it? : kinnoch
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          Strange, I've noticed a long time ago that whenever I launch steam on my laptop when I'm away (I drive a ... : Fpsnut
          • I just disabled my connection to try it out and it worked exactly as you described. Thanks for the tip...... : kinnoch
        • If you let it keep trying to connect to steam it will eventually automatically switch to offline mode. it... : Prinny God
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      I wonder if this guy even knows what the hell hes talking about most of your points ive found fixes for a... : Blazer1982
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        No need to be a prick. It still opens IE when either firefox or chrome are my default browsers. Have you ... : kinnoch
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          You fear for its future, even though most of your suggestions have already been implemented? ok. : Poor Yurik
          • I'm thinking longer term. Look at all the stagnation that happened in the OS market for a long long time.... : kinnoch
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      1. Last time my Internet went down, I was able to play Civ4 perfectly fine. I didn't need to go through a... : deveus1
      • Yes, I just did an experiment to see what would happen and it immediately asked me if I wanted to go into... : kinnoch
      • Hmm, all other games work but Beyond the Sword gets a launch error if your offline and try to start it. : Skillmore
    • 6. The favourites system solved this for me nicely. Click the star next to a game, job done. : node
    • #8 would be nice. : yacoub35
  • All steam has is a large loyalty base and an even larger collection of games. Features wise its pretty b... : SlingBlaze

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• Best of both sure, but you still need to install Steam to play the game. : leuthil
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  ... and you can't resell the game later : txfeinbergs
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    Where *IS* this place that people are re-selling PC Games? : AxeMan808
    • Poverty : molaughlen
    • Amazon, for one. : p34nk
  • who the hell would be stupid enough to buy a second-hand PC game? especially if its an online one... peo... : x Tempest x
  • I don't buy a game with any thought of being able to resell them. : FIGHTheSYSTM

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• You secure that shit Hudson. : frdranger

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  It is not actually about selling the game, what bothers me is that I WAIVE my right to actually do whatev... : d3vilsadvocate
  • it's a non-issue because publishers/devs did away with it too well and most people don't notice or don't ... : yacoub35

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• so you won't be buying it because it uses the best system out there? cool, gg. : yacoub35

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  Where Gsmespy didn't fail? : scar1999
  • Probably should have said Gamespy Arcade. : Sailor of Fortune
• You mean Games for Windows Live? : nutcrackr
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  GFWL is actually a pretty nice service in terms of the interface and having one account with achievements... : kikinchaz
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    The thing that I hate with Gamespy is that I have about 6 accounts with about 30 profiles under those fro... : nutcrackr
    • Even then, sometimes it won't let you register a new game to your account 'cause that name is already in ... : DeathStrikeVirus
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  i LOATHE gayspy arcade.. i always thought it was a piece of crap and hated when games forced you to insta... : techx4
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    I hated gamespy when they wanted to you use it to find servers... Then All-Seeing-Eye was the awesome...... : socom8271
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      ASE was great for griefing, you can stalk players by typing in their player name and adding it to your fr... : Sailor of Fortune
      • lol. classic. : k1ld0r

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• Squid Division I am hugely in favour of your username. Thank you for posting on Shacknews. : Alice O'Connor
• I actually really like GFWL. I don't know why people seem to have issues with the functionality of the so... : deveus1

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  Indeed, so long as it isn't hobbled with forced inclusion and use of GFWL. : CoreContingency
  • This was my only complaint with Dawn of War 2. I will admit though that GFWL did work well for Street Fig... : Crabs Jarrard
• Will this game have MW2/FEAR 2 style matchmaking again? Now more dedicated servers? That's pretty much ... : silverback1138

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  Enjoy reselling games while it lasts. : nutcrackr
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    Well, I don't usually resell them as a matter of fact. But if I can't, I just feel deprived of my rights.... : d3vilsadvocate
    • Well I'm a collector of games, so reselling games (even if they suck) is the last thing on my mind. I gue... : nutcrackr
• I gave up selling on my PC games a long time ago. They just devalue too quick. : kikinchaz
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  All developers pretty much hate you too, they are trying so hard to maximize the ARPU to the point where ... : ElArabDeMagnifico
  • Yes, you name it. I hate Day 0 DLC and all these extra programs required as well. I am now using not only... : d3vilsadvocate
  • Damn, split-screen would be awesome on AvP. Worked great for L4D1, especially on a widescreen monitor. : g3dHorse
• Yes, going away are the days of buying a game, making a copy and reselling the original ast 'used' 1 hour... : dookiebot
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  It's getting a bit annoying that people pop up with this as some kind of excuse for not buying a game. Wh... : scythik
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    So in your logic only console gamers are entitled to resell games, but PC gamers are not? wow... http:/... : d3vilsadvocate
    • I didn't say that at all. I said it's unrealistic. Prove me wrong, I'll listen to a valid argument. : scythik
• This is probably a key downside of Steam (I enjoy using it otherwise). I'm interested in how they could l... : g3dHorse
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  Just wait until November/December where the games will be $15-20 by then. : ajvitaly
  • Because of sales. : ajvitaly

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• I think http://www.impulsedriven.com/publisher/sega being a 404 is an even better indication that they wo : garrarg

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• no, the horseshit problems in MW2 are all infinity wards fault... : spinx2