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As I recall the Steam was forced upon Oleg as was the name Cliffs of Dover, just before release from UbiSoft.

Ubisoft is the distributor and owns rights of distribution, except in Russia.

Good luck with your whines and complaints with UbiSoft.

It was too much trouble to separate the Russian version from UbiSoft requirements.

It was best action to go along with UbiSoft for best distribution of COD.

"You can't always get what you want"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toiM1B6E2ww

I'd like to add to this that I think Steam is a great service, it has some minor quirks but compared to everything else out there it is king, for many reasons.

Steam was not Ubisoft's idea, it was the Russian publisher 1C's, as was the name change.

Ubisoft is not the big "villain" that so many like to make them out to be, at least in this case.

I was already using steam before and didn't have a problem with it. Steam has great sales. I'm more worried about the state of CloD.

The IL2 crowd here hate change. That is why they hate steam. Its the mentality of "I got by without it before, why do I need It now." Their old and set in there ways. Now get off my lawn.;)

I'd agree with that.

I'm gonna go ahead and put one of them +1's right here -> +1

El Aurens, I won't disagree with you about it. I do recall there were issues with piracy in Russia that were serious and needed to be fixed somehow.

Regardless, the deed is done.

I remember Oleg did one of those piracy protection things with PE-2 and it bombed. He stopped that after the one experience.

Steam is a good way to distribute patches fast. Once you learn your way around Steam it's OK.

Most important, I remember just as many postings about issues people had setting up and installing IL2 and it was from CD. I think some people will have issues regardless of Steam or no Steam.

burn steam burn:cool:

I cannot disagree with any of this.

Or, as one forum luminary puts it... Agree 100%

:cool:

If the patch is out next years and you cant play/patch the game because of steam having trouble for more than one day, I will see your comment...