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Originally Posted by Hunin
It sounds like you have never used steam before so allow me to explain the case a little.
Steam synchronizes it's clients with the latest version of the game by automaticaly updating it at first chance.
It does so when new patches are made avaiable ( in fact if you don't pay attention whilst starting up you might not even realize one of your games has just been patched ) and during install.
What Luthier is saying is that because they plan on releasing patches even before or on the day that the game comes out in the west ( not only concerning the epi filer btw, they are working on a number of things to improve performance ) most of us westerners will never even see the version out in Russia at the moment - due to steam automaticaly downloading the patches during our first install.
Now if those patches will amount to 10 GB you still have a problem, but at the moment we have no reason to believe that.
You should be perfectly fine.
The whole procedure can be turned off for individual programs to your liking aswell. And of course it doesn't work if you set steam to offline mode ( not possible during install ).
Hope this gives a bit of clarity.
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Thank you Hunin, yep im a regular steam user, i bought Race07 and all the series of that on steam, and Men of War on Steam only 2 months ago. fact is though, last time i downloaded Men of War Assualt Squad, i ended up paying an Extra £10 because it used up most of my monthly qouta, i simply cant afford to keep doing it. I dont see what the big deal is that everyone has to use steam nowadays and we cant just buy it in the shop on DVD. Its far easier and much less costly for some people.
And thanks for confirming it can be installed by DVD then patched via Steam, that is a BIG weight off my mind and i feel much happier thank you.