GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
I sorely rue the purchase of every single game I bought on Gamersgate and Impulse. Because they're SHIT. FROM A BUTT.
And my problem with macs is that all militant Mac users I know are completely infuriating. And I also despise and hate most of Apple's totalitarian decisions, like making the iPad a big iPhone instead of a real tablet computer. I really couldn't care less about OSX, I don't dislike it but I would also never switch to it. And OS9 was hands down the worst operational system I ever used, worse than Win ME. Also airport extreme is terrible. But my mother and my sisters all have macs that they love them and they're probably better off with macs than PCs.
GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
I sorely rue the purchase of every single game I bought on Gamersgate and Impulse. Because they're SHIT. FROM A BUTT.
And my problem with macs is that all militant Mac users I know are completely infuriating. And I also despise and hate most of Apple's totalitarian decisions, like making the iPad a big iPhone instead of a real tablet computer. I really couldn't care less about OSX, I don't dislike it but I would also never switch to it. And OS9 was hands down the worst operational system I ever used, worse than Win ME. Also airport extreme is terrible. But my mother and my sisters all have macs that they love them and they're probably better off with macs than PCs.
I'd love to hear how shit it was to purchase games from Impulse because I never had an issue with the purchases that I have made there. Unless you are a blinded steam hore, you may prefer one over the other (I steam prefer steam more myself) but Impulse is quite good as well.
GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
I sorely rue the purchase of every single game I bought on Gamersgate and Impulse. Because they're SHIT. FROM A BUTT.
And my problem with macs is that all militant Mac users I know are completely infuriating. And I also despise and hate most of Apple's totalitarian decisions, like making the iPad a big iPhone instead of a real tablet computer. I really couldn't care less about OSX, I don't dislike it but I would also never switch to it. And OS9 was hands down the worst operational system I ever used, worse than Win ME. Also airport extreme is terrible. But my mother and my sisters all have macs that they love them and they're probably better off with macs than PCs.
I'd love to hear how shit it was to purchase games from Impulse because I never had an issue with the purchases that I have made there. Unless you are a blinded steam hore, you may prefer one over the other (I steam prefer steam more myself) but Impulse is quite good as well.
Yeah, I've always had great service with Impulse. Nowhere near as good as Steam since there isn't all the community features and I feel their layout could use a bit of work, but it's perfectly acceptable and I've never run into problems with them.
huh... that's interesting. I tried updating my disc version of SoaSE on Impulse and then it didn't let me play it again unless I had an active connection to the Internet. Is there some setting in Impulse to switch that off?
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GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
I used Impulse to buy the GalCiv II expansions, and it was fine. Is there something about the way that they handle non-Stardock titles that's horrible?
GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
I used Impulse to buy the GalCiv II expansions, and it was fine. Is there something about the way that they handle non-Stardock titles that's horrible?
Or are we just being silly geese?
I bought Warlords: Battlecry III off of Impulse, and then found out that they sold a broken version of the game where anything involving random chance always resulted in failure.
I bought it off GoG and received a working version.
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GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
I used Impulse to buy the GalCiv II expansions, and it was fine. Is there something about the way that they handle non-Stardock titles that's horrible?
Or are we just being silly geese?
I bought Warlords: Battlecry III off of Impulse, and then found out that they sold a broken version of the game where anything involving random chance always resulted in failure.
I bought it off GoG and received a working version.
That is what I would call a valid complaint. Steam is guilty of this too, though, if what I hear about the first Commandos game is correct.
Is anyone doing this? Does game performance take a significant hit if you are playing it from another drive?
No, not really. The operation is a feature of the NTFS filesystem and is transparent, and as far as Steam is concerned, it's just another directory. Of course, it'll be slower if the drive you're linking is slower than your primary drive, but that's a general hardware issue.
Although, the blog above uses directory junctions for some reason instead of symlinks, and I prefer the latter. Yeah, I know he calls it a "symbolic link," but that requires the /D switch, not /J.
GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
I used Impulse to buy the GalCiv II expansions, and it was fine. Is there something about the way that they handle non-Stardock titles that's horrible?
Or are we just being silly geese?
I bought Warlords: Battlecry III off of Impulse, and then found out that they sold a broken version of the game where anything involving random chance always resulted in failure.
I bought it off GoG and received a working version.
That is what I would call a valid complaint. Steam is guilty of this too, though, if what I hear about the first Commandos game is correct.
Impulse is nowhere near as good as Steam. I have the base Galciv2 game, and when I saw DREAD LORDS on sale for 2 bucks, I thought it was one of the expansions and bought it. Only it happens to be the base game I already had. But fucking impulse shit site is confusing and NOT connected to the stupid client. So you have to buy on the site and then add the serial to the client, but I couldn't find the serial anywhere.
Steam wouldn't let you buy a game you already own by itself, as in "not in a big pack". and the site is perfectly integrated to the client.
Gamersgate makes you download an installer that downloads the game install files. It's not download-and-play like Steam.
And managing what game you got in each site is a nightmare. Better to keep them all together.
GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
I used Impulse to buy the GalCiv II expansions, and it was fine. Is there something about the way that they handle non-Stardock titles that's horrible?
Or are we just being silly geese?
I bought Warlords: Battlecry III off of Impulse, and then found out that they sold a broken version of the game where anything involving random chance always resulted in failure.
I bought it off GoG and received a working version.
That is what I would call a valid complaint. Steam is guilty of this too, though, if what I hear about the first Commandos game is correct.
Impulse is nowhere near as good as Steam. I have the base Galciv2 game, and when I saw DREAD LORDS on sale for 2 bucks, I thought it was one of the expansions and bought it. Only it happens to be the base game I already had. But fucking impulse shit site is confusing and NOT connected to the stupid client. So you have to buy on the site and then add the serial to the client, but I couldn't find the serial anywhere.
Steam wouldn't let you buy a game you already own by itself, as in "not in a big pack". and the site is perfectly integrated to the client.
Gamersgate makes you download an installer that downloads the game install files. It's not download-and-play like Steam.
And managing what game you got in each site is a nightmare. Better to keep them all together.
Don't get me wrong. I love Steam by lightyears of love. It's by far the friendliest, most useful online service I've used. GoG runs second for there policies as well. I've had limited experience with Impulse. I have GalCiv II and SoaSE so I need the client for game updates, and I think it's a great service for that. I bought the GalCiv II expansion packs from Impulse and while somewhat obtuse, I managed without any real pain so to speak. But I am largely ignorant of their service as a whole beyond those specific instances, and I've considered taking advantage of some of the deals they have at times, but I've been hesitant to jump into non Stardock purchases from the service. I just want to make sure I base my decisions off of decent info instead of our beloved forum hyperbole.
But yeah, Steam is super hot sex whenever you want it.
Is ... is that what super hot sex feels like? I'm intrigued.
I have a plethora of friends and groups that I can get down and dirty with any time I want? Access to new toys at some ridiculously cheap prices? And the free modifications and loving support? Don't get me started.
Steam going to Mac is a pretty important move for the industry. Mac users only make up 10% of the US, or 6% of the world, but they represent people who are willing to spend more for marketing. That's an extremely attractive marketing segment. If game developers can work with Apple on a few games, it's a guaranteed buy for hundreds of thousands of people. The game could be complete ass and it doesn't matter.
I'm optimistic about this. Developers need a reason to put their games on PCs, not just the 360/PS3. If getting the Mac-drones on board to empty their wallets is the way to do it - so be it. It's good for everyone (except the drones, but who cares!).
Not only that but it's important for Apple because you will likely see a subset of consumers that will feel safe in switching over completely to the Mac since gaming is arguably OS X's only true downside.
The people I see using Macs were the people who didn't trust or don't understand technology. They need to be told exactly what to buy and how to use it, and they're willing to pay more for that privilege even if the device limits them.
The gamer demographic and the Mac demographic is about as far apart as I can imagine. If they can find some synergies, great, but I just don't see them. Better to focus on draining their wallets, and worry about them as a long term consumer once they make the switch to main-steam or open source technology.
I have a 360, DS, and a gaming PC. I also own a Mac. Basically, anything productive I need to do (video editing, office work, photoshop, etc), I do on a Mac because it has never failed me, works reliably, and I don't have to worry.
The gaming PC I own is solely for games. Windows 7 has made it much more tolerable.
My friends who own Macs aren't non-gamers, they all game in some way or form, and with the higher end macbook pros, they play Steam games with me in Boot Camp. This Steam announcement has them pretty excited.
I realize I'm not representative of the Mac demographic at large, but blanket statements like this don't apply anywhere.
I have a 360, DS, and a gaming PC. I also own a Mac.
So what you're saying is that instead of using the first 3 for gaming and using the 3rd for work with free open source software, you purchased a redundant 4th device that's more expensive for comparable hardware to the 3rd, so that you could purchase software that's more expensive and does the same thing?
Do you not understand why the industry absolutely salivates at the thought of Mac users and Apple fans? You are a veritable GOLD MINE.
I'm not insulting you, I'm thanking you. Your brazen consumerism has wrought wonderful technological developments, as hardware and software developers know they need to make products 2-3x better than a comparable Apple product to break the fanatical mind share. That is GREAT for everyone else, and I am excited to no end to see what happens in the PC gaming industry if they have Apple customers to subsidize their development. This was a great move by Steam and my only concern is if Apple is going to try to put a choke hold on the Steam portal, as per their usual business practices.
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More like an upward spiral. I can't see anything but good coming from this move. It may just save the PC gaming industry. Forget government subsidies with no oversight, they've got Apple customers :^:
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GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
To my own surprise, I bought a non-Steam game yesterday. I wanted the new tank strategy game "Achtung Panzer!" badly and GamersGate was the only place I could find it. It worked alright (and it's a cracking game), but I would kick a puppy for a Steam version.
So what are these Battlestations games like? The trailers were painfully patriotic.
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GOG is the only other service worth using, and only for those games steam doesn't have already.
I sorely rue the purchase of every single game I bought on Gamersgate and Impulse. Because they're SHIT. FROM A BUTT.
And my problem with macs is that all militant Mac users I know are completely infuriating. And I also despise and hate most of Apple's totalitarian decisions, like making the iPad a big iPhone instead of a real tablet computer. I really couldn't care less about OSX, I don't dislike it but I would also never switch to it. And OS9 was hands down the worst operational system I ever used, worse than Win ME. Also airport extreme is terrible. But my mother and my sisters all have macs that they love them and they're probably better off with macs than PCs.
I'd love to hear how shit it was to purchase games from Impulse because I never had an issue with the purchases that I have made there. Unless you are a blinded steam hore, you may prefer one over the other (I steam prefer steam more myself) but Impulse is quite good as well.
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Yeah, I've always had great service with Impulse. Nowhere near as good as Steam since there isn't all the community features and I feel their layout could use a bit of work, but it's perfectly acceptable and I've never run into problems with them.
I really want to minimize the time that awful thing is running on my system, though.
Me no add numbers. Me trust Steam. Steam good!
Man, fuck. I would have bought that without ever noticing at all.
Also from time to time they seem to put some old classics at the sale price of free so that's dope too. Think I got a Tex Murphy game that way.
It's Tuesday now. Battlestation games are up today.
This sort of thing happens pretty often on Steam, actually.
"Package Price" sure is a weird thing, gonna keep an eye on that.
This, except that I will usually go with a GOG version over a Steam version for older games.
I used Impulse to buy the GalCiv II expansions, and it was fine. Is there something about the way that they handle non-Stardock titles that's horrible?
Or are we just being silly geese?
Is anyone doing this? Does game performance take a significant hit if you are playing it from another drive?
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I bought Warlords: Battlecry III off of Impulse, and then found out that they sold a broken version of the game where anything involving random chance always resulted in failure.
I bought it off GoG and received a working version.
That is what I would call a valid complaint. Steam is guilty of this too, though, if what I hear about the first Commandos game is correct.
That's because we know our OS is superior, and don't need to engage in pointless debate to prove it.
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If anything, it felt like things loaded faster when I had steam on a different drive.
No, not really. The operation is a feature of the NTFS filesystem and is transparent, and as far as Steam is concerned, it's just another directory. Of course, it'll be slower if the drive you're linking is slower than your primary drive, but that's a general hardware issue.
Although, the blog above uses directory junctions for some reason instead of symlinks, and I prefer the latter. Yeah, I know he calls it a "symbolic link," but that requires the /D switch, not /J.
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Impulse is nowhere near as good as Steam. I have the base Galciv2 game, and when I saw DREAD LORDS on sale for 2 bucks, I thought it was one of the expansions and bought it. Only it happens to be the base game I already had. But fucking impulse shit site is confusing and NOT connected to the stupid client. So you have to buy on the site and then add the serial to the client, but I couldn't find the serial anywhere.
Steam wouldn't let you buy a game you already own by itself, as in "not in a big pack". and the site is perfectly integrated to the client.
Gamersgate makes you download an installer that downloads the game install files. It's not download-and-play like Steam.
And managing what game you got in each site is a nightmare. Better to keep them all together.
edit: restarting steam fixed it.
Don't get me wrong. I love Steam by lightyears of love. It's by far the friendliest, most useful online service I've used. GoG runs second for there policies as well. I've had limited experience with Impulse. I have GalCiv II and SoaSE so I need the client for game updates, and I think it's a great service for that. I bought the GalCiv II expansion packs from Impulse and while somewhat obtuse, I managed without any real pain so to speak. But I am largely ignorant of their service as a whole beyond those specific instances, and I've considered taking advantage of some of the deals they have at times, but I've been hesitant to jump into non Stardock purchases from the service. I just want to make sure I base my decisions off of decent info instead of our beloved forum hyperbole.
But yeah, Steam is super hot sex whenever you want it.
I have a plethora of friends and groups that I can get down and dirty with any time I want? Access to new toys at some ridiculously cheap prices? And the free modifications and loving support? Don't get me started.
It's swingin', baby.
I have a 360, DS, and a gaming PC. I also own a Mac. Basically, anything productive I need to do (video editing, office work, photoshop, etc), I do on a Mac because it has never failed me, works reliably, and I don't have to worry.
The gaming PC I own is solely for games. Windows 7 has made it much more tolerable.
My friends who own Macs aren't non-gamers, they all game in some way or form, and with the higher end macbook pros, they play Steam games with me in Boot Camp. This Steam announcement has them pretty excited.
I realize I'm not representative of the Mac demographic at large, but blanket statements like this don't apply anywhere.
So what you're saying is that instead of using the first 3 for gaming and using the 3rd for work with free open source software, you purchased a redundant 4th device that's more expensive for comparable hardware to the 3rd, so that you could purchase software that's more expensive and does the same thing?
Do you not understand why the industry absolutely salivates at the thought of Mac users and Apple fans? You are a veritable GOLD MINE.
I'm not insulting you, I'm thanking you. Your brazen consumerism has wrought wonderful technological developments, as hardware and software developers know they need to make products 2-3x better than a comparable Apple product to break the fanatical mind share. That is GREAT for everyone else, and I am excited to no end to see what happens in the PC gaming industry if they have Apple customers to subsidize their development. This was a great move by Steam and my only concern is if Apple is going to try to put a choke hold on the Steam portal, as per their usual business practices.
More like an upward spiral. I can't see anything but good coming from this move. It may just save the PC gaming industry. Forget government subsidies with no oversight, they've got Apple customers :^:
To my own surprise, I bought a non-Steam game yesterday. I wanted the new tank strategy game "Achtung Panzer!" badly and GamersGate was the only place I could find it. It worked alright (and it's a cracking game), but I would kick a puppy for a Steam version.
So what are these Battlestations games like? The trailers were painfully patriotic.
because i don't understand why people are arguing about it
steam is coming to mac, sweet shit broski
A few pages late, I know, but direct2drive has Supreme Commander 1 if you are still looking.
Can't believe this thread is close to coming to an end. At the beginning we talked about the AvP demo. Oh how far we've come.