Thief Series quite likely to hit Steam soon...

Muscle Horse on 17/3/2007 at 14:44

I think some of you are actually mad. Books will never die out as you don't need a computer to 'run' it. Games, however, will turn to download only as the box is only a cheap extra.

Dia on 17/3/2007 at 16:04

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Plenty of people still have dial up, not everybody lives in an area that can be serviced by high speed yet. Rural locations are lucky dial up works at all.

Well said.

Every couple years I get a call from a cable company doing a survey to see how many people in my area would be interested in having cable. I usually don't hear from these companies again, but on the few occasions when they've taken the time to call back, they pretty much always say something to the effect that the area in which I live is too sparsely populated to warrant their installing cable.

Satellite connections are still pretty steep (when there's only one income), especially for an Internet hookup. Guess I'll have to wait til those companies come down in their fees a tad and/or I get a salary increase. Right now it's either sink my earnings into groceries, household bills, repairing my home and paying the mortgage so I can continue living in an area I've loved for so long, or move to a dinky little house on a dinky little lot in a crowded, noisy suburb so I can have a cable or satellite connection.

Much as I'd love to have something faster than dial-up, no contest imo.

SD on 17/3/2007 at 18:22

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Books'll go that route too. Haven't been tracking all the digitizing initiatives from Google, Amazon and friends?

Uh, yes?

When they replicate the feel of a hardback in your hands, the smell of a brand new tome, the portability and ease of use of a book - then, maybe. But I just can't see it. Even if the technology was possible, I can't see it being a substitute for the Real Thing.

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I can see future generations adapting to their own brand of aesthetics while the old curmudgeons go on and on about the "feel" of some product in their hand

You either get it or you don't. If you're a philistine with no appreciation of aesthetics or history, that's your loss, but most people thankfully aren't. Sometimes, modern technology isn't the best way. Sometimes, there's a reason that things have been done a certain way for thousands of years.

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I think some of you are actually mad. Books will never die out as you don't need a computer to 'run' it. Games, however, will turn to download only as the box is only a cheap extra.

Having just looked at the (http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?publisher=eidos&cc=US) price list for Eidos' games on Steam, I can honestly say that there's no future for downloads so long as they cost more than the physical game.

$18 for Hitman on download or $8 for Hitman on CD from a shop? TOUGH CHOICE.

Muscle Horse on 17/3/2007 at 19:28

I think the exchange rate works wonders for UK denizens. The Hitman collection is peanuts compared to shop prices considering how much you get.

OrbWeaver on 18/3/2007 at 21:53

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I already own all three on disk but, frankly, I'd rather have the convenience of an access anywhere copy.

I'd rather have the convenience of being able to play the game I purchased whenever I feel like, without having to go grovelling to Valve's servers requesting "permission" and hoping that the servers are available, the network isn't down and they haven't accidentally disabled my account. You'd have to pay me to purchase another Steam game.

Neil_McCauley on 19/3/2007 at 19:02

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Exactly. I own the Half -Life 2 DVD, but I have to be online and connect to Steam every time I want to play the fucking thing, even though it's installed on my machine? Stupid. I'm lucky (well, they are lucky) that the servers have been down only once since I bought it.

Vigil on 19/3/2007 at 19:08

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I own the Half -Life 2 DVD, but I have to be online and connect to Steam every time I want to play the fucking thing, even though it's installed on my machine?

Neil_McCauley on 19/3/2007 at 21:01

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How?

Vigil on 19/3/2007 at 21:21

By leaving your internet connection off, if you really want to.

DeargDoom on 19/3/2007 at 21:34

Steam sucks ass