You are kidding us, right? Stating your opinion in public and let your wallet do the talking is the only thing we can do! Is this a private chatroom? Have there never been any officials on these forums?? C'mon, now THAT is BS! your "suggestion" is exactly what we're doing here: 70+pages and rising!
Voting with your wallet is great and all, but when the game is clearly selling well its not going to have much of an effect. 2K Greg does check these forums yes, however iirc he only does that as part of his job and his time is limited. Also there's quite a bit of these 70+ pages that isn't asking 2K to remove Steam from Civ5 or whatever you want is.
Are you working for Steam or what is your problem?
Just because I'm not agreeing with everything you say does not make me crazy or somehow worse than you. Neither does it make me an employee of Valve, in fact I'm a full time college student without a job. Oh, FYI, when you start accusing people of working for another company it makes it look like you have run out of actual valid things to say.
And don't tell me ciV requires steamworks to work! Now really, I won't play the idiot:
You're only a fool if you don't accept that Civ5 has Steamworks built into it. It has been throughly explained to the best of several people's knowledge why Civ5 requires Steam, and I'm not going to explain that for a tenth time.
"There was really no other way! We were forced to use steamworks to get the game going! It's the only technology that does it and we did it for YOU! ...A big sloppy kiss to our fanbase and customers!..."
Thank you very much; don't wanna get kissed there by a company... You would believe that sh%$&, would you? No you probalby wouldn't either...
That is NOT what I and others have been saying. It isn't the only way it could have been done, but it is the way it was done and nothing beyond time travel is going to change that.
Back to specious arguments:
I think this statement is much more ironic than you thought it would be when you wrote it.
1. Multiplayer requires steamworks? It's not working and utterly broken (at least that's what most people in these forums state)! Good job!
From what I've seen, the part of multiplayer that isn't working is on Civ5/Firaxis' end. Steam is used for networking and various other things I don't know exactly.
2. Multiplayer has no other technology available to work? RIGHT! You can believe it but I won't!
You're the only one who has said that.
3. No other DRM available? wrong! They could have done it differently but they didn't
Again, you're the only one saying that...
4. It's ok if you like steam (which you obviously do)! REALLY, congratulations! But as 'poid said:
Anthropoid was answered numerous times. If he continues to ignore the facts because he doesn't like them that is his problem.
That's what it's all going down to: Why is it obligatory? They made it that way?!
Sure, close enough.
That's not even an argument!
No, its a fact.
Personally: I very much hope they're wrong!!! And I'm not going where THEY want me to go! period.
Then don't. It really doesn't matter to me if you use Steam or not.
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