New Steam patch.

[TheVrolok]

Anyone know what that means? In English?

 

[Liet]

Maybe it means you can store CD Keys for the games you have that aren't loaded in Steam?

Course, you could do the same with a .txt file.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Liet
Maybe it means you can store CD Keys for the games you have that aren't loaded in Steam?

Course, you could do the same with a .txt file.

This was my exact thought process. At first I thought "Hey, I guess I could store my CD-Keys in my Steam account - but oh wait, I've already got a .txt with them in a list anyway, and it's in my bi-weekly backup image anyway. Fail." I haven't yet found any new option relating to CD-Keys within Steam yet.

 

[CrystalBay]

This ?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: CrystalBay
This ?

think so

 

[kylebisme]

I don't follow how Valve would have anything to do with making a 2K game install without the CD key the installer requests.

 

[KeithTalent]

On the HL2 forums it was mentioned this had something to do with temporary beta keys and Left 4 Dead. Not sure which is correct.

KT

 

[raystorm]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
I don't follow how Valve would have anything to do with making a 2K game install without the CD key the installer requests.

The retail NBA2K9 requires steam out of the box for some reason even though its not available on the service for purchase. Really odd but I'm happy that there is a high quality sports game on the pc even if I don't care for basketball. Maybe all future 2k Sports game will be on the pc.

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: raystorm

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
I don't follow how Valve would have anything to do with making a 2K game install without the CD key the installer requests.

The retail NBA2K9 requires steam out of the box for some reason even though its not available on the service for purchase. Really odd but I'm happy that there is a high quality sports game on the pc even if I don't care for basketball. Maybe all future 2k Sports game will be on the pc.

They did it because they realized Steam was just as good a copyright protection mechanism as installing Securom or some other crazy DRM scheme.

Good idea in theory. Unfortunately, they forgot to include the CD key in some of the boxes so people couldn't register their copy w/ Steam and were therefore unable to play it. The Steam patch enables them to register the game without the key by it just reading that the disc is in the drive.

 

[kylebisme]

Ah, thanks for the clarifcation.

 

[Spike]

I'm not sure what they mean but one cool thing Steam does is allow you to put in a cd key and download that game. For instance a while back I bought sins episodes: emergence or whatever it was called for $5 from gogamer. I got the box and for some reason the game would not install, kept getting errors so I assume a bad disc. Well, I uploaded my key to Steam and was able to download the game from there.

True, the game itself was only so-so but hey, it allowed me to play something that otherwise I would have had a hard time with. Seemed pretty cool.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Spike
I'm not sure what they mean but one cool thing Steam does is allow you to put in a cd key and download that game. For instance a while back I bought sins episodes: emergence or whatever it was called for $5 from gogamer. I got the box and for some reason the game would not install, kept getting errors so I assume a bad disc. Well, I uploaded my key to Steam and was able to download the game from there.

True, the game itself was only so-so but hey, it allowed me to play something that otherwise I would have had a hard time with. Seemed pretty cool.

Not every game allows that. Only a few do. Wish a lot more did though.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Spike
I'm not sure what they mean but one cool thing Steam does is allow you to put in a cd key and download that game. For instance a while back I bought sins episodes: emergence or whatever it was called for $5 from gogamer. I got the box and for some reason the game would not install, kept getting errors so I assume a bad disc. Well, I uploaded my key to Steam and was able to download the game from there.

True, the game itself was only so-so but hey, it allowed me to play something that otherwise I would have had a hard time with. Seemed pretty cool.

Not every game allows that. Only a few do. Wish a lot more did though.

Why, so your purchase can be locked down to a single user account and never be resold? I just don't get the enamoration people have with Steam's DRM.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Spike
I'm not sure what they mean but one cool thing Steam does is allow you to put in a cd key and download that game. For instance a while back I bought sins episodes: emergence or whatever it was called for $5 from gogamer. I got the box and for some reason the game would not install, kept getting errors so I assume a bad disc. Well, I uploaded my key to Steam and was able to download the game from there.

True, the game itself was only so-so but hey, it allowed me to play something that otherwise I would have had a hard time with. Seemed pretty cool.

Not every game allows that. Only a few do. Wish a lot more did though.

Why, so your purchase can be locked down to a single user account and never be resold? I just don't get the enamoration people have with Steam's DRM.

Not everyone sells their copy of a game...

Me not being able to sell my steam game means so little to me compared to not needing any install discs or cd keys around. I just need to install steam on a computer, log onto my account and I have access to my games.