What's steam

[TomYo689]

How come when I try installing civ 5 it keeps coming up with some steam thing and says directx 9

 

[The_J]

Steam is a digital rights management system.
In order to play Civ5, you have to create a Steam account.

Steam offers also some other services, it's basically also a giant online shop for games, offer friends lists, allows match making, allows you to redownload the game, even if you lost the disc, and some other stuff.
But if you have a game from Steam, you'll have to let Steam authentificate this game online, to see that it's not pirated. If you try to install Civ5 on a computer without Internet, then you're unlucky, that's not possible. You are also not able to resell a game after it was once activated.

 

[TomYo689]

Well I can't say the package didn't warn me

 

[Gordon Brittas]

Steam is a digital rights management system.
In order to play Civ5, you have to create a Steam account.

Steam offers also some other services, it's basically also a giant online shop for games, offer friends lists, allows match making, allows you to redownload the game, even if you lost the disc, and some other stuff.
But if you have a game from Steam, you'll have to let Steam authentificate this game online, to see that it's not pirated. If you try to install Civ5 on a computer without Internet, then you're unlucky, that's not possible. You are also not able to resell a game after it was once activated.

Yes you can/

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...nnot-stop-you-reselling-your-downloaded-games

 

[Furiey]

That article also states: "Whether Valve and EA will make changes to their websites to reflect the ruling remains to be seen." which they have not yet done. So in theory you can, in practice you will have to argue it with steam.

 

[The_J]

Sadly not.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...iterverkauf-gebrauchter-Software-1631306.html

Tatsächlich hatte der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) bereits im Februar 2010 mit der Entscheidung zu "Half Life 2" (Urteil vom 11.02.2010, Az. I ZR 178/08) Softwareherstellern einen Weg aufgezeichnet, der geeignet ist, die Kundenrechte im Falle von Gebrauchtsoftware auszuhebeln. Denn schon damals hatte der BGH entschieden, dass selbst dann, wenn Software gebraucht weiterverkauft werden dürfte, der Softwarehersteller durch eine Produktaktivierung den Weiterverkauf jedenfalls auf faktischer Ebene wirksam und zulässig ausschließen kann.

Translated:

In fact the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH [note: Germany's federal high court]) showed already in February 2010 with the decision to "Half Life 2" (Court rule from Feb. 11, 2010, Az. I ZR 178/08) a way for the software producers, which is suitable to leverage the customer rights. Because already at that thime the BGH decided, that even if you're allowed to resell used software the software producers can exclude this right at the factual level by implementing a product activation service.