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 CIV 5, Steam necessary? |
 Nov 5 2010, 04:53 PM
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jacked in  Group: Admin Posts: 8,006 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463  |
Hey!
Got a question about CIV 5. Is it possible to play the game without an internet connection at all on the computer? Or does it use Steam for registration? Bye Thanee |
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Nov 7 2010, 01:42 AM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
should be with a boxed copy. steam itself can be played in offline mode, after initial installation.
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Nov 7 2010, 10:29 AM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 8,006 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
Yep, I think that's pretty much it... you need it for registration/activation, and patching, but not to actually play.
Bye Thanee |
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Nov 7 2010, 11:36 AM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
That pissed me off royally about Starcraft. I had to make a battle.net account and wait half an hour for updates. Steam is at least a little kinder, but I still dislike it. Give it ten months and it'll be on direct2drive.
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Nov 7 2010, 12:55 PM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 8,006 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
It's available on D2D already. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Is that without any online activation then? Never used a download platform other than Steam (and that only for a few cheap games when they had one of their mad price slashes). The main question here is... can those games be transfered and run on a computer that has no internet access (at all)? Bye Thanee |
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Nov 7 2010, 01:31 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Make sure Direct2Drive isn't selling it through Steam - they were doing that last month. But yes, if you buy it through D2D, you get a downloadable file. Just install the file. It's possible the file is tied to the computer and can't be run on any other one. I haven't tested that.
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Nov 7 2010, 03:13 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,679 Joined: 19-September 09 Member No.: 17,652 |
It's doubtful that the file is tied to the computer. Among other thing I don't even think that would be possible.
I believe that you could get steam games on a computer that has no internet access, but it's a bit more involved, because you'd have to transfer over the steamapp files from steam (Along with a chunk of steam most likely). Should work, but steam might put some files in weird places to try and prevent it. If possible, I suggest transferring your entire steam folder, that would be most likely to work. |
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