See, I've never had any problems with Steam. Okay, I never used it when it first came out. I only got it with HL2 a few months before Episode 1 was released.
Since then I've used it for CS:S, Dark Messiah, The Ship and about a zillion demos. Not a single crash, either the platform or the games on it. So I can't complain.
It is a very good method of digital distribution, and it gets a lot of exposure across the world. It means indie devs (like the Scavier lads) don't have to find the cash to burn all those discs themselves or a publisher to steal a load of their profits. It's a case of design, upload and forget.
Although LFS doesn't need it, the extra anti-hacking methods are also pretty good. It can be worked around for single players, but you can't get online with hacked versions (not that I'd know anything about that, because cracks are bad, m'kay).
I think it's a valid option for any small independant software company. It certainly opens doors that would otherwise be closed.
The only real downside may be overpublicity. Would it attract the wrong kind of people to LFS?
But as I said before - this is an argument for a long time in the future
Since then I've used it for CS:S, Dark Messiah, The Ship and about a zillion demos. Not a single crash, either the platform or the games on it. So I can't complain.
It is a very good method of digital distribution, and it gets a lot of exposure across the world. It means indie devs (like the Scavier lads) don't have to find the cash to burn all those discs themselves or a publisher to steal a load of their profits. It's a case of design, upload and forget.
Although LFS doesn't need it, the extra anti-hacking methods are also pretty good. It can be worked around for single players, but you can't get online with hacked versions (not that I'd know anything about that, because cracks are bad, m'kay).
I think it's a valid option for any small independant software company. It certainly opens doors that would otherwise be closed.
The only real downside may be overpublicity. Would it attract the wrong kind of people to LFS?
But as I said before - this is an argument for a long time in the future