Congratulations on the green light! It is great that this has happened for the company. I just hope that this doesn't mean that in the future you will need to have the steam client running in order to play the game. I have some beef with steam being a bit intrusive and their servers being overly slow. I also don't like the way steam tries to convert a game you haven't brought on steam to use the steam system. Steam keeps trying to convert GTA IV that I bought on games for windows live marketplace and race 07 that I bought on disk to their slow glitch fest of a system. I was foolish enough to let steam do it for Race 07, now I cant just put the disk in and play when ever I like, I have to be online and launch steam and wait forever for an update to download and install before I can play. I really do hate steam for a lot of things. I wanted to have a play on Half-life2 the other day. I hadn't played it for a few months and sure enough it forced me to wait for 4 days while it downloaded a 900MB update at a pathetic 75 kbps. So I just gave up and played some BeamNg. Steam's log in system is way to strict, It will never let me log in with my web browser, It keeps emailing me links to click to prove I am me but it still wont let me log in via a web browser. Its good that they are trying to prevent fraud, but if their security means that the user cant even log in then its obviously a broken system. I have contacted steam support several times about not being able to log in but I never get a response from a person, just automated messages with troubleshooting steps. None of which work or apply. I give steam 8/10 for concept but 1/10 for actual usability. Rant complete
Don't worry - Steam integration will not be mandatory. The existing distribution and update system will continue to exist. If you've already bought the game, you will be able to opt for a free Steam key once the game is released on Steam.
never had any of the above problems (including not being able to login, also, never had a slow steam, if your steam website is slow, its most likley just your internet connection, as i have a 30/5.92 connection, it loads faster than google most of the time, also, you do know you can choose NOT to update, right? right in the steam settings of each game, you can choose "Do not Automatically update" and, never ever had steam try to take my games over, so if it's doing that, then you set something weird, as i have all stock settings, never had it try to take a game over)
Every game I have will just prompt for update on launch if you disable automatic updating. The automatic update setting literally only effects that, disabling or enabling automatic updating, it doesnt effect whether you need to update before launching the game or not.
strange, steam doesnt do that to me, just tell's me i'm playing an outdated version (of course, the only things i have updates disabled on, are benchmarking software, as because of my internet speeds, i don't really care that steam updates my games, as it generally only takes a second or 2)
I'll be honest. I was hoping to retain the DRM free version while redeeming my steam key. ITs purely for the reason of "I love steam's automatic updates but I don't always have access to the internet".
