Earlier in this thread we discussed how Steam interacts with the Paradox Interactive games.
We came to the conclusion that Steam itself is only used as a normal Installer without Steams DRM being used. (you can start the game outside of steam and can make a backup of the folder itself).
But it's easy to miss those things when your trying to make a point, right?
So to sum things up :
1) Steam acts only as a Installer, nothing more, no DRM.
2) You have a wide variety of stores to pick your game key up.
3) Once you downloaded the game you do -not- need steam anymore.
3a) you can start the game from the folder, no steam used.
3b) you can back up the game by simply zipping the folder and later just unzipping it somewhere and starting it from said folder.
That kind of leads me to believe that those who are claiming that "Steam is the all-Evil" *makes spooky hands* simply are misinformed.
All their main points that have been brought up have been proven to be false, as summed up above, the sky isn't falling, honest
Then treat steam as a simple installer, install steam to install the game, then uninstall steam and keep the game folder.
Then treat steam as a simple installer, install steam to install the game, then uninstall steam and keep the game folder.
Its how other game instalelrs work aswell, even the earlier mentioned GoG installer has to be downloaded onto your computer to install the game, afterwhich you can delete the installer exe file
It's not that bad. You can set Steam to only ever open when you tell it to.
I have no problem with having Steam on my computer, yet, this is how Steam is set for me. I have to open it myself, it does not open automatically.
Earlier in this thread we discussed how Steam interacts with the Paradox Interactive games.
We came to the conclusion that Steam itself is only used as a normal Installer without Steams DRM being used. (you can start the game outside of steam and can make a backup of the folder itself).
But it's easy to miss those things when your trying to make a point, right?
So to sum things up :
1) Steam acts only as a Installer, nothing more, no DRM.
2) You have a wide variety of stores to pick your game key up.
3) Once you downloaded the game you do -not- need steam anymore.
3a) you can start the game from the folder, no steam used.
3b) you can back up the game by simply zipping the folder and later just unzipping it somewhere and starting it from said folder.
That kind of leads me to believe that those who are claiming that "Steam is the all-Evil" *makes spooky hands* simply are misinformed.
All their main points that have been brought up have been proven to be false, as summed up above, the sky isn't falling, honest
I might actually consider this. Might.
Yeah. Once I've got the game installed, I can move and copy the folder wherever I like and on any computer. You have made a compelling argument.
If you do that, you can forget about patches, though. You'll need Steam to get them (I'm pretty sure they'll stop uploading .zip versions of them, since streamlining their patching process through Steam was a big part of the reason why they have decided to stop releasing GG versions).
