Trust isn't a weakness - this PRICE is !

[FizzlePopBerryTwist]

You could find this game on magazine CDs along 5 others...
its a good game no doubt (if you figure it out, its a bit cluncky) but that price is just a bad joke...

On " gog(dot)com " they sell it for _5,39€_ and its DRM free (no internet necessary).

Just saying.
I got DungeonKeeper II from there, as well theme hospital and Heroes 3 (WITH EXPANSIONS- unlike steam)- work fine!

Its time to end those steam jokes to ask 10~20€ for games, which are older than the 4gb HDD i got in my basemeant :[

Whats next? Pong - for just 14,99? eh? oh wait they did that one already in form of "Pinball" games (its not like there are 100.000 free2play online)

[TaipanUk]

Well to be honet i have ended upwith multiple copies of Uplink. I have it on steam and on GOG .. The normal steam price is really just a kaugh as it has been in many game bundles and helps to make the bundle prices look good :)
The Gog price is worth paying for the developer cd etc but to be honest the best has been and gone .. the Humble Bundle with Developer access including SVN access :D

[Chloe]

i got it in the introversion game bundle, along with prison architect and stuff (i play this more than PA, which is the game i was looking for in the bundle lol)

[Aurora Yukihime]

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8 (I kid. However, this is very ad-spammy, and very loosely related to the game. Even so, I do appreciate you spreading the game's influence - in a forum where mostly everyone already has the game. Please, do take it elsewhere.)

[Winking Wizard]

Nobody buys games on steam full priced, deal with it.

[Munki]

Just got it for $0.99, can't really go wrong at that price. XD

[🐊hubert]

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[The Longest Rose]

I recommend picking it up in the Introversion Bundle, much better deal.

[Shock4ndAwe]

This game is well worth the price.

[FizzlePopBerryTwist]

Its a good game and if they would do more with it than just slap it on steam i agree 100%...
but... thats what they did.

There was a opportunity do tweak 1 or 2 things to make it better to breath some more life into it... nope.

And if i get the same game for half the money... with some bonus content... uhmm yeah. no brainer.


also: its a game where you try not to be traced....
and an DRM free one sounds like ......... i mean come on! roleplay!!

[AI-bino]

Originally posted by ZombieFX:

Its a good game and if they would do more with it than just slap it on steam i agree 100%...
but... thats what they did.

There was a opportunity do tweak 1 or 2 things to make it better to breath some more life into it... nope.

And if i get the same game for half the money... with some bonus content... uhmm yeah. no brainer.


also: its a game where you try not to be traced....
and an DRM free one sounds like ......... i mean come on! roleplay!!

I don't understand what all the hubub about DRM is. I can play my Steam games oflline just fine.

[FizzlePopBerryTwist]

The more games don't force you online, the better.
In this particular case it might isn't an issue - sure, but it easily could had been.

I got a nice thick 100mbs connection, but 1c a year - when the sun goes deep and my provider trips over a wire... i realize how darn limited you really are without it. (not to mention im old enough to suffered trough 56k<.<)

An example: I downloaded SCII from my battlenet account.
It was late and hit the bed. Started it next morning and couldn't connect to their servers.
Well - just play offline then i thought to my self - punchline is: you have to be logged in at least once, before they allow you that offline.............. (kinda register ur launcher)

Despite the fact i got the howl stuff from my battlenet account earlier. What a nonsense.


Or if you want go into a bigger controversy - take games like the last SimCity (5).
"YOU HAD" to be all time online for this game, because: reasons.... (even if playing alone)

yeah... sure... and thats why a modder didn't took a week, to make it offline available (with cloud saving) and later down the road, it became an "feature", so everyone could do that.
Of course the damage was already done - many ppl had put down the game or didn't touch it in the first place. I can tell you that - me and a friend of mine had "fun" with their servers.

Don't you think its sad, that such a thing is considered as "feature" these days?


To make a point: they add in "always on" stuff - because they DON'T TRUST YOU...

so yeah - trust is a weakness.

[AI-bino]

Originally posted by ZombieFX:

The more games don't force you online, the better.
In this particular case it might isn't an issue - sure, but it easily could had been.

I got a nice thick 100mbs connection, but 1c a year - when the sun goes deep and my provider trips over a wire... i realize how darn limited you really are without it. (not to mention im old enough to suffered trough 56k<.<)

An example: I downloaded SCII from my battlenet account.
It was late and hit the bed. Started it next morning and couldn't connect to their servers.
Well - just play offline then i thought to my self - punchline is: you have to be logged in at least once, before they allow you that offline.............. (kinda register ur launcher)

Despite the fact i got the howl stuff from my battlenet account earlier. What a nonsense.


Or if you want go into a bigger controversy - take games like the last SimCity (5).
"YOU HAD" to be all time online for this game, because: reasons.... (even if playing alone)

yeah... sure... and thats why a modder didn't took a week, to make it offline available (with cloud saving) and later down the road, it became an "feature", so everyone could do that.
Of course the damage was already done - many ppl had put down the game or didn't touch it in the first place. I can tell you that - me and a friend of mine had "fun" with their servers.

Don't you think its sad, that such a thing is considered as "feature" these days?


To make a point: they add in "always on" stuff - because they DON'T TRUST YOU...

so yeah - trust is a weakness.

Hmm... I never really considered it. I think the only time I ran into DRM issues was with The Sims 4. Had to use an activation code before I could play it on/offline.

Other than that though, I don't see the issue with playing Steam games offline. That is, unless you're a multiplayer nut. :P

[arbayer2]

In the future, long after modern games with mandatory day-one patches, DRM and DLC go out of favor for something else, it will be much harder, if not impossible, to get a complete copy of these games anymore without doing some serious ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ legwork. As far as game preservability is concerned, we're in a dark age now that the Internet's been so closely integrated into modern gaming.

If you get lucky the game's popular enough to have warranted someone cracking the main game and saving all of the DLC and posting it online, but if it's a more obscure title, like some of the games from Introversion, you're pretty much SOL.

It'll be crazy to see what'll happen should Steam ever go defunct at some point.

[Dυєlρωη]

I got this game for free in a bundle o.o

[Zoopy]

shush the game is good i kill you