Sims 3 (Steam Edition) - Patch version Differences.
Jeeves:
Or you could just pull your head out of your ass. What a nuisance!
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: cwurts on 2011 January 31, 03:02:53
I hate Steam! I got it with Sid Meier's Civilization V and I had to redownload the whole game. It took four days. Now it starts automatically whenever I boot my computer. What a nuisance!
Quote from: cwurts on 2011 January 31, 03:08:06
Yeah, but wouldn't I have to search for info on how to do that? What a nuisance!
I hate to admit that I agree with you on steam, Civ V was my first experience with steam and hated it, I have yet to find a way to start the game without using steam, but then again steam has turned me off playing the game so haven't really been looking. A lot of people like steam, like using it and want to use it more, I have no problem with people who like it, I just don't. It's no different to people liking TS3 while you don't like it because it isn't TS2 on steroids.
It is quite easy to prevent steam from starting when you load/start windows, and it really isn't that hard and doesn't take that long to find out how to do it.
Anach:
I was anti-steam for years, and I only ever had the Valve games on there, until I accidentally bought a retail game that required Steam and while installing I happened to see their catalogue had grown considerably since I last used it and a few cheap titles grabbed my attention. Now for me it's mostly about the price of Steam games Vs retail, which are often about 50% cheaper on Steam than retail, also that I can get a lot of games on Steam that are no longer available in retail outlets, often for a few dollars. The sales they have on Steam are crazy, and we never get anything like it in retail outlets here.
I stopped getting cracked games a couple years back. I finally had enough of having to worry about cracks and cracked patches, and performance or stability issues due to DRM emulation cracks. Sims wasn't much of an issue, thanks to the type of CD check, but most other titles were. Storing Disks was also a pain. I have boxes of game boxes with disks. Having to search through hundreds of disk covers just to find a game or having two of certain games for my Wife's games as well, I'd need to dedicate a room in the house just to game disk shelving. The cracked games weren't much better. Having to store hundreds of Gig of ISO on a drive somewhere. That storage could have been used better elsewhere. Steam has taken care of both those problems, especially as I don't need to keep the installation files anywhere.
Finally, a while ago I had a system with bad RAM. It would often corrupt files, and it took me a while to track down the problem. During that time I had to reinstall games quite a few times. Sims 2 and 3 are the biggest pain due to the amount of disks. My steam games however, I only needed to do a quick scan, and it would download only the needed files. This is why I got Sims 3 on Steam. I got tired of failed patching due to a file that wasn't recognised by the patcher, then having to reinstall. Now if I ever have that problem again, which is unlikely due to the way Steam patches games, all I need to do a quick scan.
Oh just thought of something else. I am quite into my game mods. Almost everything I have install is modded to some degree. I have played games such as Oblivion, Fallout 3, Dragon Age, KOTOR countless times. Trying to do a clean install of those games, then DLC, while maintaining my mods was a real pain, especially for Oblivion and Fallout 3 which have like 20gig of Mods installed. With Steam, I just rescan, and it leaves 99% of mods in place, and ready to play.
PrinJess:
Quote from: cwurts on 2011 January 31, 03:08:06
Yeah, but wouldn't I have to search for info on how to do that? What a nuisance!
Steam > Settings > Interface > Run Steam when my computer starts
Yay.
gamegame:
Outdoor Living Stuff is out on the internets.
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