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[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="28" id="3361596"] So it sounds like quite a few of you don't want DRM because it forces you to pirate and play hacked versions of the game [/quote] There are always people who pay money for soft and those who don't regardless of whether there is DRM or not. The second part always pirate and they don't bother about your DRM but the first one can choose among DRM protected games and DRM-free. For exampl

I never buy games protected by DRM especially Steamworks. But I always purchase interesting indie games on GOG or directly from developers. I like to support indie developers not being DRM slave. You can't stop pirates but you can lose legal customers.

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="325" id="3202770"] Quoting taltamir, reply 311 You don't have those games, they are just associated with your account. When steam finally goes under you will lose every single one of them. You do realise if your house was damaged by fire, flood or another natural disaster and you lost all your cd's you would be screwed, however if they were on Steam you'd be ok? Which would yo

I hate Steam. The first and the last game I bought there - Empire Total War. I will never buy there any, even the most desired game. I like Matrix Games - there you will get no DRM except serial number. There is no need to activate your games via online service, no regional policies. You can install your games in any folder you want ( in Steam - only in SteamApps). You will never be banned and loose all your bought games. It's very poor that a lot of interesting strategies will be release

[quote who="Splitshadow" reply="13" id="2551314"]Once Starcraft II comes out, none of us PC gamers will need any new games for 4 years.[/quote] Not such slowpokes like me. :-) *thinking* *thinking* *thinking* *thinking* *tea* *thinking* *thinking* *END TURN* *tea* *thinking* *thinking* *tea*...

Is there any outstanding TBS console games like GalCiv, Space Empires, MOO, Total War, Master of Magic? It's the only PC game genre (TBS) I like to play. And yes, the possibility to modify PC game is the great advantage wich can extend a game life.

[quote]real-time[/quote] I think such complex game can't be in real time. The AI can make a lot of actions at a time while a player should press the pause batton to make a deсision what to do. It is easy when you have few colonies, but what can you say if you have tens or even hundreds colonies? In my opinion GC3 can only be TBS, so the player will have enough time for considering and <span

Is it possible to do such trick in TA? It works well with DA's saves, but I haven't found any pattern above in TA. PS I'm awfully sorry for my English.