Why not Steam with AGEOD's games?
Greybriar wrote:I don't understand the obsession some gamers have for Steam. I don't want a gaming service, I want to play a game. Steam is a DRM. Why on earth would I want to add more intrusive software to my PC than I am already forced to do with Microsoft and other companies I won't mention here?
tibo22 wrote:I disagree : Steam has changed a lot since its beginning. Steam is now less slow and with a better customer service. But buying on steam would afterall be only an option, as you like it. Buying an ageod game on steam would let you having all the patches without checking every week them, and would give you the opportunity to play to your ageod game everywhere you want [color="Red"]even if you havenot the cd with you. [/color]Having a game on steam it is having it for life
And there are more and more people on steam and a lot from the new total war game which is a strategy one : AGEOD could benefit from these customers.
arsan wrote:But as long as Steam would be just one of the ways of getting the game (and not THE ONLY way) it would be OK for me.
Certainly it will help AGEOD games to be more known.
tibo22 wrote:I disagree : Steam has changed a lot since its beginning. Steam is now less slow and with a better customer service. But buying on steam would afterall be only an option, as you like it. Buying an ageod game on steam would let you having all the patches without checking every week them, and would give you the opportunity to play to your ageod game everywhere you want even if you havenot the cd with you. Having a game on steam it is having it for life
And there are more and more people on steam and a lot from the new total war game which is a strategy one : AGEOD could benefit from these customers.
tibo22 wrote:I only meant an aditionnal way. Everyone could make his choice.
The problem with downloading on the AGEOD website is that you have the possibility do download the game until 1 year, if you pay the option. On steam you can do it forever.
That is to say that if you change your pc (everyone change its pc) you may lose your game, while with steam you won't. For exemple I now live far from my family house and as I change my pc I can't play anymore at ACW as I didn't take it with me.
Maybe the option for AGEOD would be to sell their games a little bit more expensive on steam in order to protect their own website.
But I have learnt that even 1 year after my purshase I still could download my game if I had lost it, what is a good news. But if I do so, I must have bought the 1 year option before, mustn't I?
arsan wrote:I really prefer the simple AGEOD or Matrix games system of download, which not forces you to install another program to download, activate and play a game.
But as long as Steam would be just one of the ways of getting the game (and not THE ONLY way) it would be OK for me.
Certainly it will help AGEOD games to be more known.
arsan wrote:Still, i will definitely get them in the current simpler way so i have in my possession all i need to play the games when and where i like to, even if i have no Internet connection, the Steam servers are down or Steam has folded up in, lets say, 2021
Pocus wrote:About Steam: On our side there is a drawback to Steam (unless this changed). You have to give them specifically a new patched setup so they can update the games of their customers. What is for example the version of BOA1 you can play at Steam? Can you patch it on your own or must you play with the version they provide? What about modding? Can you mod the game? What will happen when you log to Steam, will the system see your copy is changed and download the one from their servers?
That said, more avenues of income is always nice...
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Gray_Lensman wrote:Between Pocus post above and yours (Generalisimo), I can see that my thoughts on patching via Steam and non-steam venues are pretty much confirmed as incompatible as I suspected.
This means that for every patch that AGEod puts out for any of their games, they would have the additional overhead of producing 2 separate patch versions each time a new patch is released.
Gray_Lensman wrote:Other than a possible increase in sales or tighter DRM management, I don't see any additional advantage for any game that is already designed as a downloadable game and I have never had any problem downloading anything directly from the AGEod site. So, other than maybe a price difference, why would I want to download an AGEod game thru Steam rather than directly from the AGEod site? This seems to me to be putting an additional middleman between me and the games I might want to purchase.
Gray_Lensman wrote:edit> A middleman that if for some reason it closed it's site would mean the loss of all the games that you had purchased thru it.
Gray_Lensman wrote:Slightly OT thought: Having just recovered from a 2nd Malware attack in the last 8 months (the 2nd one just this weekend). I wonder how long it will be before the Steam site is hacked to distribute one of these attacks. The number of people immediately affected would be staggering.
... Gray_Lensman wrote:Incidentally, the 2nd time, I was using AVG software that was supposed to filter/block such attacks... It didn't work obviously and resulted in the loss of all my work since the October v1.15 AACW patch.
rwenstrup wrote:Personally I would avoid Steam...it is a very frustrating system that inhibits Mods and fails to support users when there are system problems...
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