This is something that's been bugging me for a while.
I had recently bought Counter-Strike Collection and when I started installing it a pop-up showed up prompting me to register in "Steam", something I had read about some time ago. The purpose of this was to make me log in everytime I wanted to play so they could make sure I was using a legal copy of their software.
Fair enough, I paid for it and it was an online game so it wasn't that big an issue.
Sometime later I bought Valve's Half-Life Anthology. The main game I wanted to play using it was the original Half-Life. I started installing it on my computer, which wasn't connected to the internet and at that time simply couldn't be. Suddenly a pop-up showed up. "Register your copy on Steam or you won't be able to play the game". I couldn't.
It was a singleplayer game, I had paid for it and it was there in my hand but they wouldn't let me play it. What had I just bought?
Apparently I had just bought permission to play the game but only if they were watching.
(I'll probably write more about this in the near future.)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
What do you get when you pay for a game?
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My UT doesn't save the campaigns in offline mode, but is playable in offline mode. Now I only needs some stable drivers to my GPU :/
My UT saves the campaign in offline mode. Are you sure yours doesn't do that? I never even played it online.
I also wish I had a pc that could play that game in medium settings and wouldn't slow to the point of crawling when 3 or more characters are on the screen.
It's too next-gen for my hardware.
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