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enjoy.

That's what I really hate about Steam; I don't mind anything else, since it hasn't affected me yet. What I hate is that it puts a time limit on your games, nearly as surely as you're limited in how long you'll be able to play any MMO. Which, btw, is why I don't really play MMOs. Someday you'll get the message "yeah, sorry, we're going offline" and suddenly the last five hundred hours of your free time is gone.
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my pc runs skyrim at 60-70 fsp on ultra settings, the problems I get are from ctds caused by bloody steam popups etc. whenever it ctds there is an advert for some other steam game staring at me from my monitor. I hate steam, I hate the fact that you have to log in, and when you do sometimes it wont load unless you restart the computer. If beth ever release another game on steam, I wont buy it on principle. You have to have the sound card settings just right or it wont load....pain!
I like a lot about the game, but it appears to have been designed like a commitee rather than a visionary. still the asking price was reasonable (pc) when compared to some ps3 games. I wont say it is a let down, not by any means - just too many mountains and not enough grassland.
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And consider the joys of knowing that, if for any reason, Steam goes offline--whether from hackers, or poweroutages, or simply going belly up--there goes your game. :confused:
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Using the console (even by accident) will label you a cheater on Steam and all your achievements will not be recorded. So if you are into that Steam stuff, then you have been warned.
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Last edited by steph on 17 Apr 2012 - 07:51.

I agree with you about steam

I agree with you about steam steph but there is a way,just play the game by going into your steam main screen and clicking on the "Go OffLine" choice in the pulldown menu "top left".

Then restart skyrim.steam will access your account from details that are on your computer,but will not use the internet to do it.

A small window should show with a "go online" and "play offline" choise,if you click the offline box it will just play skyrim with no steam interference.

If you want to update at a later date,just click the online box.

If you have SKSE start it from that.

On your last point, Steph,

On your last point, Steph, you can cheat and get achievements though you need to save and reload. This happened in FNV too. On the other hand, Steam keeps on freezing half life at certain points and the only solution I was given was to skip parts of the game. Not good!

That's why I use cracked

That's why I use cracked versions of all my games. I bought Skyrim, I paid for it. But I choose to use a cracked version, because I don't feel like bothering with with all this new cloud based computing, having to sign in to play a single player game, auto-updates, having to goddamn subscribe to a mod in order to use it. Haven't had any CTD's or bugs or anything either. They crack all the patches too so I am all good in that department as well.

Yeah several people I know

Yeah several people I know have purchased Steam games, but then use the pirated versions when they actually play them. You can buy stuff on Steam without installing the software on your PC - just use their website.

One friend of mine has a Steam account with dozens of games on it, but he's never even installed Steam on his computer. He says, "yeah I want to support the developers, but I'm not going to install that bloatware on my computer".

I think the Steam-haters should just adopt this strategy and then they can actually enjoy cool games like Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas without having to install Steam. You wouldn't be breaking the law either, since you would own the rights to the game and are only installing one copy of it (as I understand it, although I am not a lawyer, etc.).

I don't agree

Valve has stated many time that if they ever have to go offline for whatever reason that they will disconnect the DRM stuff from your games so that they are still playable.