EMPIRE TOTAL WAR DEMO

Civ wrote:My point? I don't have to be a steam nerd to google steam, download it, and then download the game. It's not really exclusive if everyone can get it for free. I have no steam games, but I'm downloading the demo right now.

You just cited the EXACT reasoning as to why exclusivity on a free system is still important. You did not even have Steam on your computer, but now that you saw the ETW demo EXCLUSIVELY on it, you went out and downloaded it.

Now you have it on your system, and are much more likely to take advantage of its community features. If you buy ETW, you may take notice of Steam's weekend deals. You might purchase your first Steam game, as it may be on sale for only 5 dollars.

Eventually you may start to buy full-priced games on Steam. Digital Distribution accounts for around 50% of PC game sales. Steam, touting 15 million users, is the most active of distributors.

Exclusives expand their consumer-base. That's why it's important.

Is this seriously gonna become an argument?

Just play the damn game!

ReconToaster wrote:

Civ wrote:My point? I don't have to be a steam nerd to google steam, download it, and then download the game. It's not really exclusive if everyone can get it for free. I have no steam games, but I'm downloading the demo right now.

You just cited the EXACT reasoning as to why exclusivity on a free system is still important. You did not even have Steam on your computer, but now that you saw the ETW demo EXCLUSIVELY on it, you went out and downloaded it.

Now you have it on your system, and are much more likely to take advantage of its community features. If you buy ETW, you may take notice of Steam's weekend deals. You might purchase your first Steam game, as it may be on sale for only 5 dollars.

Eventually you may start to buy full-priced games on Steam. Digital Distribution accounts for around 50% of PC game sales. Steam, touting 15 million users, is the most active of distributors.

Exclusives expand their consumer-base. That's why it's important.

Umm... no, I already had it on my computer.

And if I only wanted the demo I'd just install Steam, download the demo, and then uninstall Steam.

Civ wrote:Umm... no, I already had it on my computer.

And if I only wanted the demo I'd just install Steam, download the demo, and then uninstall Steam.

Except you need Steam to launch it...

Steam is not just a program, or a store. It's a platform. Xboxlive is to Xbox as Steam is to PC

Please do not turn this awesomeness into yet another steam argument, and that is directed at everyone.

Dud Doodoo wrote:It is decided, Empire Total War is fap material.

o_O

You're my hero, Toaster. Well... after a week of holidaying I will now sack off work in favour of many hours of Total War.

ReconToaster wrote:
Get on your knees, and take it.

What the hell?

ReconToaster wrote:

Civ wrote:Umm... no, I already had it on my computer.

And if I only wanted the demo I'd just install Steam, download the demo, and then uninstall Steam.

Except you need Steam to launch it...

Steam is not just a program, or a store. It's a platform. Xboxlive is to Xbox as Steam is to PC

Then I could just uninstall it when I'm done with the demo. Steam really isn't that big of a deal.

Cheese wrote:You're my hero, Toaster. Well... after a week of holidaying I will now sack off work in favour of many hours of Total War.

My God, there's enough tea and crumpets in that sentence to make Chuck Norris wince!

I see only one crumpet. Also... I had tea and crumpets for lunch srsly

8kb/s!!! 2% over four hours. 9000 years to go!!

Civ wrote:Then I could just uninstall it when I'm done with the demo. Steam really isn't that big of a deal.

Unless of course you like the game, in which case you'll need steam to register and launch it.

As I said before, it is estimated that around 50% of PC game sales come from digital distribution, and Steam is the biggest of the online retailers. It has over 15 million active users, and is the most convenient of any platform.

Steam... is kinda a big deal

ReconToaster wrote:and is the most convenient of any platform.

Sorry, but I'm gonna have to disagree seeing as I'm on 21% for this demo after downloading all day. Not to mention your GTA (or was it DeadSpace?) fiasco. I love my xbox because I can play stuff straight away. Even with installing stuff on PC I get impatient, plus it's far more likely to break. Now with steam it takes me three days to re-download a game, and my Half-Life 2 was still broken! Grr...

If my internet was at the standard it claims to be then I'd agree in a second, but at 8kb/s average, it tends to get a little annoying. On the other hand, I lost my Halo 3 disc! :O And have no way to get it back (unless I... find it). So +1 Steam.

In the end I can't possibly say. You know how hard it is for me to actually go out and buy games; but I've just said how hard it is for me to download now In the end... they are both deeply... deeply flawed ;D

I prefer buying the game and running it, windows is much more convenient as a platform itself.

ANYWAYS, me and p are gonna be doing zombies on this game when it comes out.

I downloaded it at about 250-300 kb/s ^_^