Any chance CiV will be released outside of steam?

[deanej]

In the US, outside of a university setting with a dedicated network and admins that keep your connection spit-shined and up-and-running 24-7, 365 -- ISPs range from horrendous to just bad. Find yourself in a situation with high latency, bad signal, or worst of all -- no connection at all -- and you are completely screwed with Steam.

I actually get better internet speed (download only) at home than at college. However, that's a situation unique to NY's north country (my college actually pays to have a 500 meg fiber line run from campus all the way to Syracuse, so we can't have good bandwidth, but it's theoretically better than buying bandwidth locally).