You cannot change what's on the disc. Good gravy, has it been that long that you forgot everything? Steam has ruined you people. Master race my ass...
So you seriously think your disc is just the game by itself? It's heavily buried in DRM, it doesn't need to write to tell you you can't read.
DPsx7 posted...
Well no it didn't use those words but that's what was implied. I wanted to play. Had no internet. HL2 refused to work at all which pissed me off. I even bought the disc to avoid the nonsense. Lesson was don't support Valve ever again. Ha I wish I had millions of games. Hundreds, maybe a thousand in the whole collection. HL2 was the sole problem.
LOL
Where's your disc protection there? Bro, you made my argument, discs don't protect you from not being able to play your game.
DPsx7 posted...
Any kind of forced, repeated check in is bad for the market. Luckily the majority didn't stand for it. This is also why I say physical isn't going away anytime soon. It would be suicide for the platform to go digital. Ouya and PSP Go didn't thrive, XB was shot down. What more proof do you need? On top of that we're battling ISP's and their prices, caps, bandwidth. Games are getting more and more complicated. These things will never mesh together.
Note the lack of necessary check ins.
There's no 'off' switch if that's what you mean. Plug it in and it works. Just like every other cart and disc I own.
Ah, but that was because the disc and game were infected with Steam. The basis of this whole argument really. Buy a game with Steam - doesn't work even on disc. Buy anything else - works fine.
What lack of check in's? XB had to dump it because of backlash. Steam doesn't care enough about you to remove it. I know when I had it the crap phoned home every so often. A current user said it still does. All this means is we're not going all digital anytime soon.