Shame on you for using STEAM !

[JG4_Helofly]

Steam? Never had any problem with it. Let's wait and see.

[Thee_oddball]

all new releases have there birthing issues...how much SolidShield and Steam play in this remains tobe seen.

S!

[kimosabi]

I wouldn't worry too much about Steam itself. Steam is a digital distributor/game community, nothing else. It has all the Steam benefits, like updating, patching and unlimited downloads etc. but it doesn't grip you by the balls like 777 does with Rise of Flight.

My Steam versioned IL-2 is just like IL-2 hardcopy and the only real difference is that I need to find my game folder in the Steam folder. That's it. Doesn't matter to me if CoD:IL-2 needs a one time activation through Steam/SolidShield or from the game itself.

[sfmadmax]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

My Steam versioned IL-2 is just like IL-2 hardcopy and the only real difference is that I need to find my game folder in the Steam folder. That's it. Doesn't matter to me if CoD:IL-2 needs a one time activation through Steam/SolidShield or from the game itself.

Correct same thing for me, I use ultrapack for my IL2 copy (thru steam) no problems at all..

[Feuerfalke]

Steam is very nice. Never had a problem with it.

In fact I like the autopatching, the soft DRM and I also like cheat-protection.

Of course I also like the fact that the developers get's 70% of the money earned from Steam as opposed to 30-40% on conventional methods. IMHO Maddox Games deserves the money more than UBI, but your opinion may differ?

[ptisinge]

Like many posters here, I like Steam, have used for more than 5 years without any problem at all, which is quite a testimony to its reliability.

I note that a number of Steam opponents here base their opinion on the experience friends had, things they've heard or things that happened once 6 years ago. If CoD uses Steam for a number of significant features, then it's probably too late to stop this from happening, and the best for people who don't know Steam is probably to try and see guys; just try new things instead of bashing them... It's amazing the amount of negativity around here, it's the end of world at every single little piece of news... *sigh*

By the way, everybody is anxious about the fact that the game is lacking promotion: Steam is exactly that, a huge promotion tool. With its huge user base, it's a platform that has got a wider reach than any other. Hell, I know a number of non sim people that bought IL 1946 when it came to Steam - they had never heard about IL-2 before.

[JG53Frankyboy]

i just tried a few minutes ago to install Empire TotalWar from my DVDs.........just because so many have praised STEAM to heavan
i was not surprised actually to get the error message (like in the past) "not enough harddrive space" again

as long i dont have to install CoD throgh STEAM, i am ok i have ordered the CE DVDs.

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

Of course I also like the fact that the developers get's 70% of the money earned from Steam as opposed to 30-40% on conventional methods. IMHO Maddox Games deserves the money more than UBI, but your opinion may differ?

Especially when we see that the new Assassins Creed game is announced on Ubi's Steam catalogue 17th of March but not a word on Ubi's Steam about CoD:IL-2. I checked Steam just now and it has 3.000.000 gamers online as we speak. If Ubi could get their thumbs out of their behinds, they'd plaster CoD:IL-2 all over Steam. My guess is that Ubi's pi$$ed that Steam gives 70% back to the developer instead of publisher.

@ptisinge: I had never heard about IL-2 before I got Steam and look at me now. LOL

@Frankyboy: Have you tried installing Steam on a drive that actually has the space required? How many drives do you have and which one do you have Steam installed to? Default is C:. I have Steam installed on a separate drive.

[Novotny]

Frankyboy - what os are you using?

[ghodan]

I love steam.
I have 81 games on steam.
Yes it sucked when Half life 2 launched. But that is long ago.
Yes it sucked a bit when call of duty black ops launched, but what do you expect when 80.000 users try do download the game? (Yes the install cd with data on it did nothing. Mistake in the installer. So almost all of the 80.000 users downloaded the whole game tru steam instead of installing the game from the dvd and then downloading the decrypt stuff from steam.

By the way the installer problem was not a problem cause by steam.
Activision made the same mistake in the installer of call of duty modern warfare 2. So they used the exact same installer (code) for CoD Black ops.