Recent content by failhorse

A funny side story, that relates to world regions/ countries with Steam. Generally when there are major updates, to Steam games, their servers take a nose dive. They never crash, but you download at 1/20th of the normal speed. You can switch your download region out of the US and, to say...

I'm a sucker for a deal. If you haven't checked it out. Look at this: http://www.steamcalculator.com/ It appears the ave. account has $440 of game value. Portal is what sucked me into the Source universe. Highly recommend it.

I used steam for Source based games before. I purchased Civ 4 at release then later warlords. Steam had a CIV4 complete sale for 10 bucks. I really wanted Colonization (dissappointing my childhood... so broken) and it was cheaper to buy the whole thing that just BTS and Col.

Where is my tinfoil hat? Seriously. I'd like to point out that Valve didn't bully 2k into having this game put on Steam. And judging by how meticulous any Civ has been. This was a long thought out process. I would love to see the source (eh get it Valve joke) of the Steam|mp3 thing. I don't...

Edit. Again. I was wrong. Back to my original question. Is it a glitch to always start in the same spot?

Again DLC is added to push the product at retail price 59.99. Otherwise everyone would sell it for the MAP price of 49.99. This is how marketing works these days, not just in the software business.

I signed up just to comment on this. I've been using Steam for the better part of 6 years. I also run servers for 4 Source based games, the main being Team Fortress 2. Which is a great example of what Valve does right. A 20 dollar game that has seen over 2GB in updates since it's release. It's...