Everything is great! Hope it will be available for all the platforms from the start, or that it runs on Wine... if that condition is met, whatever happens is great for me.
When? ;_______________; I do think that a Steam release would be easiest but add in the steam download folder for starbound probably non steam versions that would work on perhaps linux and stand alone should i think read from the same file lists and access saved files... I THINK anyway. o.o
Nope. Check your facts, 3 Is A Magic Number is from 1973, part of the American-produced series of animated musical shorts Schoolhouse Rock. It's part of that series' "Math Rock" (not to be confused with math rock) shorts, almost all focusing on multiplication tables except for the one about zero. De La Soul's version is completely different and just uses the chorus (sort of not really).
You do know the terms, they can change them at any time however. The only reason to not really agree to something like steam's ToS, is if, A: You plan on trying to exploit holes in the ToS that they don't have covered yet. B: You are already in violation to the Terms of Service. And C: if you are judiciously paranoid. 2 of those are exploitative, the other is a places you in a position where you are being restricted overly much. Steam would have major trouble if they ever en mass removed the games from people who violated the changed terms of service. Beyond that, Steam itself warns you when they update their ToS and if you don't agree to it, they don't autoban you and remove your games, they kick you off and restrict access until you agree to it. They removed that functionality because they feared a blanket security vulnerability could be exploited via the Linux side to allow the person to gain control of the RSX processor core(The core that was restricted from being accessed by Linux), and the firmware itself being decrypted. This was a change made to address security vulnerabilities in their system. One which Sony announced ahead of time. And the assumption that you couldn't play games should have come ahead of time, given that part of the DRM for sony's system has been firmware tagging applications. These are logical explanations in their reasoning. They had to look out for their form of DRM, and they allowed those who used linux, the option of continuing to run the old firmware version rather than autoupdating it without notice to address these issues. This was in line with every consumer protection law given to the courts. They have to, unfortunately, otherwise they risk legal action, or shareholder action due to insecurities in their terms of service. You or I might consider their actions to be overly harsh, or overly reaching, however they answer to shareholders who take things like this very seriously. Implying that I need to study some social skills when you have likely taken the assumption that I am being rude out of the context my words are being written. Or perhaps applied a tone unintended by myself. I was being perfectly respectful, and not at all rude when I said these things. These things imply that while you are carefully considering your words, you are insecure with your own beliefs being questioned and thus are taking each statement as overly harsh. I was not blanket wise dismissing you, I do find people like you to have valid points. I'm merely pointing out that in the grand scheme of things, by the majority, you're opinions aren't wrong so much as outmoded and invalid. We've advanced beyond concerns like that. To function normally and enjoy what most others have, you literally will have to make these deals with multinational corporations. Where they may or may not turn around and screw you over. Amazon screwed a bunch of romance writers and readers over, when they removed files from peoples kindles that violated their own policies. The response has been lacklustre from amazon when questioned about these issues. I would instead ask you this, the core of the first stage of the beta is in testing bugs and making relatively rapid balance changes. Would it be at all feasable to have 2 groups of testers, one reporting bugs that are current to the version the devs are working off of and the other working off the one the devs got done fixing 8 hours ago? This is what would likely happen in 2. In 1 the devs will be overly burdened and their bandwidth will likely be too. Torrents aren't an option for files changing this rapidly either. If you find these arguments to be logical, specifically the ones in the above paragraph, why are you attempting to lobby for them to take up the methods posed in 1 or 2? If you've accepted that steam is not something that you want on your computer. Why are you complaining that they only are going to put it on steam until development slows down? You're still going to get your copy. Just later than the people with steam, and likely with a superior experience to them. As a small aside, I do understand the fear of steam, for years I had a computer that bluescreened if I tried to launch a game through steam. I had to download cracks for every game I had there. However I still chose to use steam, in spite of that. Because the quality of the service they provide is superior and cheaper than anything else out there.
Honestly? 3. By far. The thing is, that Steam is stable and rarely goes down in a noticeable length. And this would mean faster and more frequent updates. It would be much easier to first update it through steam. Then just later take the steam DRM out and basically already have most of the work done. If you dislike steam for some reason...Then i just have no words. DVD is being replaced by Downloads, it already has been doing this for a few years. On PC 80% of decent published games have some sort of DRM forced on them. Be it a key code, online pass, user linking or what ever. Personally i like how Steam allows me to keep my games in one place, and have them at the ready to download whenever i feel like playing a game i own. It runs quietly without ads/pop-ups. Does not take almost any processing power. Easy to use and user friendly. I love how you handle the community and your fans, but sometimes you got to make a compromise, and make life easier for you and the majority. It´s not like the non-DRM downloaders really have a right to complain with the awesome content they get maybe a month or 2 later.
option 3 please, I'm not really fussed about having a non-steam version, I pretty much use steam for most of my gaming now, and try to actively add as much as I can to it (old hard copies etc).
If you're worried about performance, you definitely shouldn't be running Vista. I remember when I had Vista on my previous laptop from 2008. Performance was terrible, and just reinstalling with Windows 7 took it from barely usable to pretty decent. Yeah, this. If Steam actually "eats up" any processing power to the point of being noticeable, the CPU would have to be really ancient, and an upgrade is probably in order regardless.
I think during beta stages 1 and 2 (Progenitor and the other one), should be totally chosen by devs crew. I mean, for the faster bug correction and handling. And after bug and crash correction, implement Steam. Btw, I'm pro-Steam, but for the good of the game, this could be a nice solution.
Steam probably IS the fastest and easiest way they can use to distribute the regular updates they want for phase 1..For them and for us. It would make the whole process a lot faster and trouble free.
Option 3. From multitude of pages I've scanned over this seems to be the most preferred option. Otherwise there seems to be a discussion going on among some of the users as to the merits (or flaws) of the different options but what I see in general is people voicing their preference for option 3. In a poll option 3 would likely win by a landslide.
Steam doesn't mean always online. God knows I have logged dozens of hours in some Steam games offline (Terraria and FF7 come to mind as having most off hours..). Yes you would have to get online for it to make the auto updates, however that's it. But then again you would have to get online as well to Dl any kind of DRM-free updated version of the beta. At this point it seems to me that we should look at it as a mere distributing platform. One that would ease the process for everyone, devs and testers.
The majority of my games can be played without steam. I also like to install games on a different partition/hd then what steam does. DRM-free would be my preference.
Thanks for clearing that up. also logged many hours into terraria before ragequitting due to a gambreaking bug.
