Because I don't live near any brick and mortar game stores I do alot of direct downloading. A lot of the horror stories you hear are true. For example, Steam is pure evil. A lot of places do make you install programs to install their games.
But getting Men of War Red Tide from gamersgate was easily the best experience I've had with downloading a game. The file you download from gamersgate is an application which downloads the "temporary files". However, what they call "temporary files" is pretty much just an unpacked .exe which installs the game on your pc, so if you keep that you can run it any time.
Because its an unpacked .exe, its pretty big. 2.1 Gigs to be precise. Me, I just burned that to a DVD+RW, and presto, instant back up disc.
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10-31-2009, 01:20 AM
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