How do you feel about having to use Steam? (Poll)

How do you feel about having to use Steam for playing Civ?

  • Strongly positive: Steam is a great addition to the series! I love it.

    Votes: 73 16.6%

  • Somewhat positive: I quite like using Steam and would happily use it voluntarily.

    Votes: 93 21.1%

  • Neutral: I don't mind it / have no feelings either way.

    Votes: 56 12.7%

  • Somewhat negative: I don't like having to use Steam and would remove it given the choice.

    Votes: 117 26.6%

  • Strongly negative: What on earth were they thinking! I hate it.

    Votes: 101 23.0%
  • Total voters
    440
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The Steam discussion has been pretty much done to death, so no need to repeat it here, but I haven't seen a simple poll to guage people's reactions to having to use it, so here is one.

Note: this is a poll on having to use the Steam service to play Civilization, rather than how good you think the Steam software itself is.
 
Strongly negative! So much so that I didn't buy the game when I would otherwise have. I did however buy the digital version of Elemental War of Magic on Impulse. Impulse and steam do the same things but in different ways. I accept the Impulse method with no reservations. I do not accept steams method.
 
Somewhat negative: I don't like having to use Steam and would remove it given the choice. It needs a whole minute to log in and I don't use it at all, it's hard to find informations that you need and I would remove it if I could. I keep it to count my hours spend on civ :).
 
Since you are required to use steam to access the patches I can not patch the game :( This is a bad thing.

Moderator Action: If you "can not" patch the game using steam, it means you have a pirated copy, piracy is not tolerated on these forum.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889
 
Polls about this ''issue'' have also been done to death, so nothing new here.

That said, strongly positive.
 
Don't really care. I do kind of like it when I get an in game pop up that I've accomplished some weirdo goal that I wasn't attempting to achieve, though ;)
 
Somewhat negative. I've never used it before and when I try to find out my information I get lost in its menus. I also have no idea what it is doing while it is running on my system.

That said. I've never noticed a problem with it either. I have no idea if some day it will do something that will bite me, or if it will remain a benign app running on my system.

Basically, the only reason I have a negative reaction is because of my unfamiliarity with it.
 
wow, pretty even results across the board. I voted in the middle, I don't care either way, steam doesn't bother me.
 
About 80% of my library is on steam and about 15% on impulse. I'm actually starting to hate buying CDs.

And when I reinstall windows (which I do every 6 months to be extra clean and happy) All my games come right back overnight!
 
I like the networking features and accessibility to content that Steam provides, but I don't like that when Steam itself has problems, I cannot play the games whose licenses I own.

For days now, it's been downloading nonexistent "patches" to TF2, and then every time I launch the game, I get "Validating game files" for 15-20 minutes as it ticks up to 100%. Once it reaches 100%, it will either hang and refuse to complete, crash Steam (which forces me to start 'validating' all over), or maybe actually let me launch the game. The next day, I go through the same "Validating game files" BS yet again. Last night I got another nonexistent TF2 "patch" that I had to download - 2.5 GB is not a patch. And of course, once that finished 45 mins later, I got to sit through "Validating Steam files" yet again.

I liked Steam at first, but this is getting really irritating. TF2 is fine; if it was a standalone game I wouldn't have had any of these problems. But Steam is keeping me from accessing content that I paid for. That's a problem.
 
Somewhat negative. It’s not a dealbreaker, but I don’t see the point for games that aren’t downloaded off of Steam. For buying games it’s great, but for games you bought elsewhere all it offers is nuisances:

- the pop-up ads for other games that show up when you open or close Steam
- the flip-up Steam notices in the game (“Press shift-tab to access…”, and messages that give you your product key and DON’T GO AWAY unless you do shift-tab, in some games)
- the occasional error where Steam thinks it hasn’t downloaded the whole game
- if you put it in offline mode you get a message box every time you open the game, which is annoying
- you can’t choose to hold off on patching the game or revert versions
 
If Steam were completely optional, I'd probably like it. Since it is compulsory: strongly negative.
 
I have no issue whatsoever with Civ5 using Steam and its never been a factor in my decision to put off buying Civ5 (that is due to college and having enough of a backlog of games already). However, I think Firaxis should have released better modding tools and allowed mod foldering so modifications don't get replaced when the game updates.

EDIT: I do understand that if this is your only game for Steam, it may not be as convenient for everyone as it is for me.
 
White Elk said:
Strongly negative! So much so that I didn't buy the game when I would otherwise have. I did however buy the digital version of Elemental War of Magic on Impulse. Impulse and steam do the same things but in different ways. I accept the Impulse method with no reservations. I do not accept steams method.
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I'm harder than you :p, i don't even accept impulse.
 
Steam is teh evil, and it hogs teh RAM!!!!1!!!one¡¡!
/ignorance /unbased-fear

I really like Steams auto-updating, news, games specials, and one place to keep all my games. I'm in the Strongly positive: Steam is a great addition to the series! I love it. category. In fact, I purchased Civ 4 on Steam after already owning it on DVD just so I could benefit from the Steam platform.

Sure, there is the odd person that cannot for some reason get a net connection for the once off install, but man... I really think these people have bigger issues than not being able to play a game (like the fact they must live in Antarctica or something). For all others that have issue with Steam... get yourself educated.
 
Was against Steam in the beginning but I grew to love it, even with some of its short comings. If we were given a choice to use Steam or not ala UT3 Black Edition, I'd probably still use it on Steam for the convience of downloading. I'm just glad that I haven't had any of the desk punching issues that others have had.
 
It's fine. After I figured out how to get it to turn on every time I turned on my computer, it is now completely in the background. Plus, I don't know where a game store is near me (just moved here shortly before the game was released), so it saved me a trip (and likely sales tax).
 
snoochems said:
For all others that have issue with Steam... get yourself educated.
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It'll be pretty hilarious when you spend days unable to use software that you bought and paid for because of Steam's errors. Somehow I think your attitude just might change a little. :lol:
 
Voted neutral. Don't really care. It does make patching easier.

So far they haven't planted any microchips in my brain, so that's a plus.
 
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