Recent content by treinacles

I understand and respect your points of view and your argument is valid if it is actually correct. I can put the songs / apps / games that I purchase from itunes on multiple media players and machines, as long as the devices are registered under my account. I can even play local multi-player...

It also doesn't make it illegal. 'Connecting' MY additional computer is theoretically no different than a second controller for a console multi-player game. I don't have to buy two licenses / copies for fifa 2010, or LittleBigPlanet, or MarioKart, or many of my other console games to play...

This is kind of a gray area for me...I play mostly console games with my wife...Wii MarioKart, PS3 LittleBigPlanet, etc... none of these require me to purchase multiple discs / licenses for myself and my wife to enjoy together. So, what is the big difference? The fact that the game wasn't...

How about adding more civs to choose from...why so few leaders and civs??? I apologize if somebody already posted that...I was skimming over the "this thread is useless BS".

I hope not...I've heard that you can play steam games in 'offline' mode, but does 'offline' mean no LAN play? If it does, I'll just play civ 4 BTS and wait to purchase civ5 until somebody creates a 'LAN play mod'.

I posted this question in a different thread earlier, but never got an answer... Will Steam require me to buy two copies of the game if I want to install it on my wife and I's two laptops to play a LAN game? I'm not going to spend over $100 on the game just to have mult-player LAN functionality.

Will Steam require me to buy two copies of the game if I want to install it on my wife and I's two laptops to play a LAN game? I'm not going to spend over $100 on the game just to have mult-player LAN functionality.

I hope steam is NOT a requirement, and I don't think digital distribution is the future. I purchased the collector's edition of Civ4 and will probably do the same for Civ5. I like the tangibility, anticipation, and act of opening a preordered special edition game...at least I think that I do...

I've been a not-too-active member for years...just thought I'd say hello again!

I think there is only one series of directx 11 cards on the market right now (ati 5000 series). I Agree with Quintillus's post...i highly doubt that civ5 will REQUIRE directx 11 given that most consumers hardware is directx 9 or 10. That being said, directx 11 support as an option would be...

Land trading would be an interesting feature...the ability to turn it off/on via a diplomacy game setting would also be nice

Reading your post makes me want to give Steam another chance as I havn't used it since HL2...which was 3 computer builds ago. How does Steam work if you have different computers that you want different games installed on? Could I put HL2 on my desktop and at a later point put HL2 on my laptop...

When did directX start requiring me to create an account before I can start using it?

Steam doesn't destroy how games are played, but requiring somebody to create a completely unnessesary account and install additional software that has nothing to do with the actual game is, IMO, rediculous.

I agree completely. People who pirate games will find a way no matter what method of DRM is used. Why punish loyal fans with rediculous DRM schemes that require anything more than having the origional disc. Requiring a steam account or a constant internet connection would piss me off! I havnt...