[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="62" id="3091184"]ask it because redeem game on Steam is not always free...[/quote] I call BS on that - do you have any source for such nonsense?
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[quote who="BULL" reply="159" id="3090957"]Quoting Frogboy, reply 25In all these discussions, I have never heard someone suggest what alternative should be used for the features Steamworks provides. The game code itself? (self-supporting) Anything (features) beyond that can go by the wayside... [/quote] It cost lots of money and time to create good tools for all those features - why the hell do you
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[quote who="bignick217" reply="125" id="3089327"]Quoting Rebell44, reply 124 Prices are set by publishers, not by Valve (except of Valve games). My solution is to wait for such game to drop to price I consider reasonable... Wrong... Publishers set the MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price). Retailers buy the products (or in Steam's case Serial keys) at a reduced price. Then the retailers sell them at whatever price they deem fit to not only make
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[quote who="ne_zavarj" reply="121" id="3089020"]One reason why i don't like Steam : $1 = 1€ crap [/quote] Prices are set by publishers, not by Valve (except of Valve games). My solution is to wait for such game to drop to price I consider reasonable...
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[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="117" id="3088831"]Really happy that i don't work anymore in the military Navy... internet connection don't exist in the middle of ocean... so, steam is a no go... curious to know the situation for US military who are stationed in the middle of some irak desert or in Afghanistan ( or any poorly developed country )... I am pretty sure that in the 4-5 year that i was busy on these forum, there was a few guys who was military and working in is
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[quote who="Lavo_2" reply="145" id="3088790"] Quoting Major Stress, reply 142 You can run it in OFFLINE mode without an internet connection. Though i do understand your point if your internet goes out before you can switch it to offline mode. Then you're screwed. That's pretty much when I try to use offline mode. It's rather frustrating. [/quote] This has (most of the time) simple solution - restart PC and start Steam
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[quote who="the_Monk" reply="117" id="3088480"]Quoting Alstein, reply 116My only worry with services is broadband caps. It's quite likely that by this time next year, my only choice for an ISP that isn't heavily capped will be dial-up. How much can one possibly download in one month? I mean, I have a 250GB / month cap. Most months I don't even break 10GB and the only month I went higher was in Dec 2010 (over a year ago) when I downloaded several
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[quote who="Alstein" reply="26" id="3088140"] I suspect two endgames for DD. Either Steam will be broken up via Antitrust, or .... [/quote] In that case, they would have to do the same to Xbox live, PSN and all other monopoly platform holder - which is simply not going to happen.
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[quote who="Lord-Vale3" reply="102" id="3087961"]Can play my Steam games in offline mode you say? So say steam isn't hogging resources in the background yet, I don't let it boot at startup. Oh, and Comcast is being a dick today, and my service is down. Well damnit I want to play some Civilization 5, and I don't care about achievements! I try to run Civ5, Steam pops up and says it cannot connect to my account, would I like to play in offline mode? Sure
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No problem, last time I bought game from retail was in 2007.
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[quote who="Nexcraft" reply="63" id="3087177"]Correction: It was Island Dog, not Yarlen, that stated retail keys could not be used for Steam. Quoting Island Dog, reply 18 Quoting Benji385, reply 16Hey - Quick quick question will we be able to redeem our retail keys for Sins and other stardock Games on steam? Please see reply #5 https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/413536/get;3025200 [/quote] That was reply
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[quote who="Emperor_Nero" reply="82" id="3087189"]It just disappoints me that we have to give up our rights to products that we purchase. Steam blocks you from your entire library if you cheat or anything like that; who is cheating hurting? It isn't like you're stealing anything. They also lock your entire account if for some reason your paypal messes up. Say all your payments get charged back for some reason and one of those was Steam you don't get to play any of your games. Mayb
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[quote who="Nexcraft" reply="61" id="3087151"]Quoting Teun-A-Roonius, reply 60 There is a collectors edition in the works, so that will almost certainly be available as a physical disc.This quote is to be found in the comments on the GameSpy interview article that this thread originally was about. The one who made this comment is the person that actually interviewed Blair Fraser (one of the people developing Rebellion). So as far as I know, a boxed release of Re
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[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="57" id="3087113"]Yarlen, how much CPU will Steam and Steamworks consume? Will it result in lag for multiplayer games as a result? Can the Steam and Steamwork programs be assigned to a CPU core different from the one that's running Sins?[/quote] This is based on my years of experience with Steam and Steamworks games: Steam/Steamworks CPU demapnds are so small that its not noticable. Response time of MP games isnt affecte
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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="25" id="3086972"]In all these discussions, I have never heard someone suggest what alternative should be used for the features Steamworks provides. The issue for us isn't Steam. It's Steamworks. I've talked about this very issue for literally years. IMO, the OS vendor should be providing this stuff for free and aggressively supporting it. But they're not. Frankly, as a game developer, I think it's ridiculous th
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I am looking forward to Rebellion release :) Also I hope game will have SteamCloud support
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[quote who="WCsharpie" reply="44" id="3086864"]Should be noted that this means steam will be required and also required to be running for as long as you intend to have sins running. Also of note is that you must have internet to first enable offline mode for steam.[/quote] Not true, you only need to have your ligin saved in client. When I start my notebook without internet connection and start Steam, it simply ask me if I want to try login again, or if I want to use Offline mo
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Brads comment about Steamworks from december 2011 [quote who="Frogboy" reply="444" id="3042258"]Quoting Rebell44, reply 443 So what will your future games use if GameStop manage to screw up Impulse Reactor (or if they dont release at all)? I'm not sure. That's the thing, people rail about Steamworks without presenting an alternative. One of the things I regularly said (in this thread I think) is that Steamworks IS VERY GOOD and tha
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Some info is in Gamespy article regarding modding: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/1219036p1.html Because of Sins' rich modding community, Fraser says Ironclad is definitely interested in getting Steam Workshop set up, though there are certain technical hurdles that might prevent it from happening, so he wasn't able to make any promises during this demo.
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[quote who="viperfdl" reply="39" id="3086526"]Quoting Rebell44, reply 29 You are wrong, look at Crusader Kings 2 (recent release by Paradox) - its Steamworks game, but it doesnt need Steam to be running to play that game. The 2012 list of Steam games says that Crusader Kings 2 doesn't use Steamworks.[/quote] That list is incomplete. You can ask in Paradox forum - its been discussed for looooooong time.
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[quote who="JCD-Bionicman" reply="5" id="3086319"]So ive purchased the game in the manner that youve told me and... what the hell... am I only allowed to download the game once? How is that not DRM in itself? [/quote] Make backup copy of installer to another HDD or DVD. You could have bought from Steam and you wouldnt have any problem redownloading as many times as you wanted :)
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[quote who="Teun-A-Roonius" reply="30" id="3086112"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 29 You are wrong, look at Crusader Kings 2 (recent release by Paradox) - its Steamworks game, but it doesnt need Steam to be running to play that game.Now I would really like to see some unquestionable proof about Sins being similarly playable without Steam running in the background as this game you keep referring to. [/quote] Ask StarDock :) But I
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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="28" id="3086097"] I think you all are getting a bit too paranoid with Steam... My guess is that steam is only for the multiplayer. Keyword is Steamworks. That means Steam is 100% mandatory, and must be running to play the game. ..... [/quote] You are wrong, look at Crusader Kings 2 (recent release by Paradox) - its Steamworks game, but it doesnt need Steam to be running to play that game.</p
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[quote who="Joccaren" reply="159" id="3051269"]Large Address Awareness, or something to enable more than 2Gb of RAM to be used. It would reduce lag, prevent crashes, and allow more to be added without sacrificing performance. These days most people will have at least 4Gb of RAM. I personally have 12. I see no reason why we should be limited to 2Gb and the problems associated with that. Also, an optional Dynamic Movement system - as I can not find one that is updated for Diplomacy,
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[quote who="Teun-A-Roonius" reply="19" id="3084089"]Steam integration for multiplayer would be a bad thing since there are lots of people that don't like that platform. [/quote] Brad said that he will use 3rd party solution - what 3rd party MP solution would you propose? GFWL?
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