I agree and right now, I dont want to even play the game, .I used to buy a pc game, I knew it was mine, I didnt have to use some account online, it was a wonderful escape. now, I received Skyrim and much to my shock, I have to have a Steam account and play it online, oh sure, there is offline mode, is it any differnt, we have rented a game, I really resent this just as you do...Im so disappointed.So I'm super existed about Skyrim, hold off on viewing all the cracked footage, go down to my local store buy a copy today and go home to install it, and what do I see, It need some freaking 3rd person program to run, well thank you very much Bethesda, Next game you come out with I'll go with the more user-friendly cracked version.
I have strong opinions agents steam and programs like it, so I'm hoping maybe someone can help me find a way to run the game without steam.
PS. sorry if I can needed to vent but crap like this is why people turn to cracks.
Ok, Im not so sure how to do that, i would love to do just what you have, play it offline mode, and disable the online community, so, I tried that, somehow Im not getting it right, but then again, Im not that techy, but I honestly love Bethesda's games. Thanks for the advice, now what really gets to me is after spending valuable time joining steam, I have to figure out how to unjoin? Thanks for any help.Actually you did agree to buy steam it states it clearly on the box. I was just trying to help you out didn't know you'd be a dick.
That's not a very hard riddle. Some quick answers off the top of my head:
- It removes Day 0 piracy on the PC (100% effectively, as far as I know). That encourages people to buy in the crucial early days when everyone has to have it *now*
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and marginally because of quest markers (removing them you will not have information to find things anyway).
How is that any different from Oblivion?
Negligible resources that your computer will have spare because Skyrim doesn't need more than a couple of cores and gigs of RAM. (Skyrim's so light on resources and stable with task flipping that I routinely keep everything open in the background and alt-tab around).
If only something like 4% of people pirating a game buy it, the revenue would double. So even if DRM doesn't affect 96% of pirates, it'd still be worth it.
Presumably because it was part of their agreement in getting Steam services from Valve (advertising, server bandwidth, content delivery platform etc.).
and marginally because of quest markers (removing them you will not have information to find things anyway)