marcpennington -> RE: question on steam (6/24/2015 1:05:00 AM)
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ORIGINAL: milkweg The downside is you have to have the Steam client open to run the game and by default it connects to the internet. You can set it to go into offline mode so you don't need to be connected to the internet to run the game but the Steam client still needs to run first before the game will run. There are a few games that will run without the Steam client running but very few. True in the sense you need Steam running to download the games initially. But after that as far as Matrix games go, you can just create a shortcut to the .exe file in the Steam common directory, and just click on it to play the game without ever logging into Steam again. Different publishers have different rules, but Matrix seems to be using Steam as just a very light-weight (as far as DRM goes), and convenient (as far as patching goes), framework. There are issues with sub-publishers of Matrix not releasing Steam friendly patches of their games in a prompt time-frame (cough, Age-OD, cough.) But in general otherwise I'm a huge fan of Matrix moving towards Steam, while still allowing direct downloads from their site. I've bought a large number of Matrix games at big discounts, games which I probably wouldn't have purchased otherwise, but some I've become hooked on since (AJE most of all), that I would not have bought but for the discount as well as the Steam convenience. But do buy from the Matrix store when reasonable comparative prices are available, just to get the actual developers a bigger cut of the profits.
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