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Direct2Drive Questions

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Hey all. I'm looking to pick up Mass Effect 2 from D2D (on sale for $10 right now) but I'm a little hesitant. I'm very comfortable with and use Steam regularly.

1) Is D2D a similar service, or do they just allow you one download of your game?
2) How do you backup games with this service?
3) Is it even worth it, or should I just go ahead and wait for the game to go on sale at Steam.

The Steam support page says you can't register ME2 with them, so I'm out of luck on that end, but my goal is to have only one place where I DL digital copies of games so I'd prefer to not have to run a program to access this game whenever I want to play it.
 
1. Its kind of similar to Steam but a lot different. On D2D you can use their GameSpy Comrade to download games, or you can just download a zip file of the DVD. Which I prefer.

2. Backups are a matter of you saving the previously mentioned zip file. D2D doesn't set a limit though on times you can DL files. ME2 is worth the 10 bucks regardless of how you obtain it. You won't have to run another program to play the game.
 
In a sense, D2D is more like retail than Steam. After you download the game (which you can do without installing the D2D download client), you are not tied to D2D anymore. You can always re-download if needed, but if you are really paranoid, just make a physical backup of the files.
 
To add what others have already said, D2D is a good service. Steam is a little easier to use for the newb/novice but D2D is not so hard that you cannot figure it out.
 
Great thanks! I wasn't so much concerned about learning how to use it, it was more a concern about having 2 programs managing my game library. I just like to have that sort of thing in one place.

ME2 here I come!


Edit: damn. Price went back to 19.99...
 
Steer clear of D2D/DigitalRiver/whatever. It's not worth the trouble.

Mark my words, when you find that you've reached your maximum allotted activations or your maximum different computers/OS installs, you will wish you had just bought the damn game on Steam for $10 more. Then again, by then it might be $10 on Steam.
 
Throckmorton, do you even OWN any D2D games?

Cause I do, and let me tell you this: I've installed Cold Fear at least 6 different times on as many PCs, and have not yet run into a single activation limit, and that game supposedly uses Star Force DRM!

I have ME2 from the EA Store. No issues. Download it through the EADM, create a desktop shortcut and away you go.
 
Direct2Drive doesn't use Digital River and they don't set restrictions on the amounts of time you can download.
 
Raduque said:
Throckmorton, do you even OWN any D2D games?

Cause I do, and let me tell you this: I've installed Cold Fear at least 6 different times on as many PCs, and have not yet run into a single activation limit, and that game supposedly uses Star Force DRM!

I have ME2 from the EA Store. No issues. Download it through the EADM, create a desktop shortcut and away you go.
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it might be specific games? I dunno, but I've had to have them reset my limit or whatever for some splinter cell game.
 
Yeah, D2D doesn't have any of its own DRM. You basically get a zip file that is a carbon copy of the retail game DVD. There are no limits on how many times you can download the zip file from D2D. Any DRM issues would come solely from the game's publisher.
 
It is kind of a pain in the ass keeping track of downloaded games from lots of diifferent vendors. I've got things on Steam, Amazon, Green Man Gaming, EA, Windows Live, Gamestop, as well as things like Indie Bundles.

With retail boxed games, I can see what I've got because it's on my desk or on a shelf. I'm afraid I'm gonna forget what digital games I have before I play them.

Sometimes I see a deal on a digital game, and when I check it turns out I already have it..
 
I've never had any problems with D2D, and I've bought a bunch (I would estimate 12-15) big name titles from them.

I just bought the Sword of the Stars complete pack because I'm hankering for some new 4x action and I've never tried that one.

I'm also working my way through Max Payne, which is really fun.
 
Tom said:
It is kind of a pain in the ass keeping track of downloaded games from lots of diifferent vendors. I've got things on Steam, Amazon, Green Man Gaming, EA, Windows Live, Gamestop, as well as things like Indie Bundles.

With retail boxed games, I can see what I've got because it's on my desk or on a shelf. I'm afraid I'm gonna forget what digital games I have before I play them.

Sometimes I see a deal on a digital game, and when I check it turns out I already have it..
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I actually had that problem with Batman AA. Bought it twice because I forget I had already bought it. lol.
 
If D2D just gives you a copy of the retail DVD, how does that work with cd/dvd checks? Are they removed from the game and replaced with online activation? If so, is this true even from older games that didn't originally have online activations?
 
I'm pretty sure every game I've downloaded from D2D had online activation.

Take Max Payne, for instance. Surely back then it didn't require any sort of activation to run, just the CD in the drive. It's the opposite now.
 
ahenkel said:
I'm wondering if that's not due to Ubisoft more than anything else.
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well i contacted d2d to get more activations though.

and doesn't d2d have some sort of online activation thing for each game? like it goes to their server to verify?

haven't bought a game from them in awhile so maybe its changed.
 
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