The Dragon Knight Saga is now available during this weekend with a 50% discount from steam, which results in a price of $19.99.
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This sale started exactly one day after I had already payed for a retail copy of DKS to be delivered to my home address (a mere $10 for the PC version and no shipping costs, but still…). And since I'm a Steamoholic who thinks having to put a physical DVD into an actual disc drive is a crime against humanity, I bought the downloadable version too. Guess the retail copy will have to be my unsealed collector's item, then…
When you boot the game off the desktop shortcut, does it force a boot of Steam?This sale started exactly one day after I had already payed for a retail copy of DKS to be delivered to my home address (a mere $10 for the PC version and no shipping costs, but still…). And since I'm a Steamoholic who thinks having to put a physical DVD into an actual disc drive is a crime against humanity, I bought the downloadable version too. Guess the retail copy will have to be my unsealed collector's item, then…
The DRM on the current steam version is only Securom, not Steam and Securom combination. The only difference is that you download it via the steam client.
But as some people here have stated in several threads: you can start div2 DKS even when Steam is offline \:\)
When you boot the game off the desktop shortcut, does it force a boot of Steam?
Some games - i.e. Borderlands (Steam version) - if you don't have Steam open at all and you just boot the game from its desktop shortcut, it'll only boot the game up.
I'm asking b/c of this comment Larian made…
The game works perfectly without Steam unless you buy it off Steam, of course (d'oh).
Wait….Did you get what I was asking?
I was asking on the DKS Steam version, if you can boot that version of the game up w/out booting Steam up at all.
This isn't common, but some Steam versions allows this. This can be done w/ some Steam versions of games [usually those w/ additional DRM measures] by basically ONLY booting the game from the shortcut on the desktop (while Steam program is NOT running).
Example: Borderlands - Steam Version.
Haha, probably not.
The Steam shortcut created is a URL based one which will start Steam before launching DKS. However if you go into the installed folder and into "bin" you will see the standard .exe file to launch the game. Just tested this and it will not launch Steam first.