Ya, the decision has not been made. Of course I have another couple of games to download the patch to (slow connection) but they are small. I probably could opt out of Impulse sending me e-mail after e-mail about this or that game which I just don't have to for and is a nusance to say the least. I find that waiting to see how big the patch is will help make any decision. As to knowing how much I have played a game I think that is info for me and not for them. I find that ridiculous to have some software on my system reminding me of Microsoft. Why? Because of all the Critical Updates I still need from them, which by the way, has seem to cut the speed of the Internet just about in half of what it used to be just a few years back (not that far.) I find that I am unable to download software patches because they do not have a file manager attached to the patch to continue the download process several times. That may not be a problem at Steam but I am unsure whether that is a problem and I know it is for some software. The only thing I can say is that the patches I mentioned are only 15 and 28mB for these two stupid games I did buy and waste my money on. They are not from Firaxis, because I still can stick in Colonization and still play that or Pirates! or start up my old Apple IIC and stick in a 5-1/4" disk and play Pirates on that.
I find the entire state of affairs with games only being seemingly made for people with a fast connection, probably which I will never have. So this is not a rant, but it is a state of fact about computer games and software in general. At the other program of 116mB patch for the time I can be on the Internet, I could not download if I had to, I had to fool the computer server and reconnect until I could download it. I found that to be as stupid as the patch not being in chunks because someone thinks everyone should upgrade to a fast connection. Sorry, but life is life, and it stinks that people seemingly in only big cities come up with this kind of thinking anymore.
Talk about not having a Civilization in the future, you may want to think about that because just on the News again was the fact that the Alert for this Nation will probably continue forever. Thus more a fact of not having what they think in the big cities as a Civilization in the first place.
And no company like Microsoft should be helped by the Government to make their OS more secure because of China or anything else because people are more interested in hitting websites I don't even care to look at.
Well, I will have to think about Civ V for quite a while yet further to see what really happens.
