Poll: Will you buy Civ 5 even though it requires Steam?

I've seen many reactions to the Steam announcement, and I'm curious about how it will affect how many people buy the game. This is a poll, so no discussion here about why you hate/love steam. Those are everywhere, just want to know how it will affect your decision to buy Civ 5.

Yes. I'm thinking about pre-purchasing the the digital deluxe edition. Manuals and boxes are awesome, but I can live without them...

im going to wait and make sure its good, plus I have so many games to play through first. But if it lives up to the series standards Ill get it.

I'd buy it even if it had Ubisoft DRM... and I HATE Ubisoft DRM. Civ V is just to much of an epic game to miss.

I love Steam,,,such a great service.

If it uses Steamworks for the online, I will be happy.

Steam isn't nearly as bad as people try ot make it out to be. There is a very small, yet vocal community of active Steam haters.

I don't like it, but I will.

Steam integration is about the least annoying of the DRM schemes that require an online activation, but I don't like any company having as much control over PC gaming, and particularly game distribution, as Valve is starting to get. I don't like online activations in the first place, but at least I can feel pretty confident that the Steam activation servers will be up for decades to come.

What would keep me from buying it is if they did something ludicrous like Ubisoft's "Online Services Platform" or they decided to tell me what other software I can and cannot have installed on the same Windows partition. I think retailers ought to be the ones raising hell about non-Valve games requiring Steam.

I don't understand this "steam hate" I think steam is a perfectly decent service. I haven't committed to buying Civ 5 yet because I haven't seen enough of it, I find the Civ games a bit slow paced sometimes. However the fact it is using steam is not a deterrent to me buying the game. I would much rather Civ 5 used steam than the god awful Games For Windows Live, if it used GFWL then that would deter me from buying it.

I don't have a problem with Steam. And so this news doesn't change the fact I really want Civilization V.

No , as most of my time time in Civ4 was spent playing Lan with my cousin...

Yes. I'm thinking about pre-purchasing the the digital deluxe edition. Manuals and boxes are awesome, but I can live without them...

Baranga

Steam is fine with me....I love all of the Civilization games so it really doesn't matter to me, but I'm going to pre-ordered it at Gamestop instead of on Steam

I dont mind steam I just hope it has some nice tutorials or has some sort of casual mode...when I returned to Civ3 recently I found myself too stupid to play it and I used to be so good=(

Love steam havent had any problems..Dawn of war 2 works great on the system..So has civ 4 an ive had that since release..Civ 4 is a classic game hopefully so will civ five be..Looking forward to the changes they make..

I want to get Civ V but it needs to have something that the previous games didnt.

No , as most of my time time in Civ4 was spent playing Lan with my cousin...

kazakauskas

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No , as most of my time time in Civ4 was spent playing Lan with my cousin...

kieranb2000

hmmm , you sure there wont be anything like "you have to be connected to steam servers to acces multiplayer part of the game" ? Anyways, i guess ill see.

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No , as most of my time time in Civ4 was spent playing Lan with my cousin...

kazakauskas

hmmm , you sure there wont be anything like "you have to be connected to steam servers to acces multiplayer part of the game" ? Anyways, i guess ill see.

I maybe will buy it when they sell it really cheap after some few years. :D-D3ATH-

However, this will be the first Civ released after DD has matured, so maybe I'll be utterly wrong. Still, the game will easily be worth the full $50.

Ofcourse, those who hate steam are few.

I still want to know: Will I have to create a Steam account just to play the game?ChiliDragon

I also want to know. if I do have to create one then I won't buy this game period.

I'm not 100% anti-Steam, all the time. I have bought (oops- I should say 'subscribed,' right?)LongZhiZi

Apparently no one told you steam games have offline mode, and the ability to make hard copies of you're software to a disc. Besides, the EULA is no different in you're vendor copy then my digital distribution copy of a game. You're still just paying for the rights use the software, there is never any ownership. Nice troll though.

Im buying a hard copy if there is one! :cry:MrLions

[QUOTE="MrLions"]Im buying a hard copy if there is one! :cry:ChiliDragon

STEAM SUPPORTS OFFLINE MODE AND ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE HARD COPIES OF GAMES.

Seriously, sorry for the caps guys. But this needs to be put in big bold [explicit deleted] letters at the top of every forum post for PC discussion. To many people talk bad on steam when gamespot will rip you off on every last penny they can nickle and dime form your a$$ first chance they get. Dont even get me started on other major retailers.

STEAM SUPPORTS OFFLINE MODE AND ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE HARD COPIES OF GAMES.

Seriously, sorry for the caps guys. But this needs to be put in big bold [explicit deleted] letters at the top of every forum post for PC discussion. To many people talk bad on steam when gamespot will rip you off on every last penny they can nickle and dime form your a$$ first chance they get. Dont even get me started on other major retailers.

4th3ist

I want to get Civ V but it needs to have something that the previous games didnt.

andalore

It will have a brand new hex-based combat system (only one unit per hex, no stacking).

Anyway, of course I'm buying it. I really can't think of anything that could possibly stop me from buying Civ V.

honestly who here doesnt have steam already?

If it uses Steamworks for the online, I will be happy.

Steam isn't nearly as bad as people try ot make it out to be. There is a very small, yet vocal community of active Steam haters.

Wasdie

I buy from Steam, but I have to admit the "you have to be online to go into offline mode" is pretty dumb. I would never buy a new single player game from Steam. The only single player games I've bought from there have been because they are so cheap it would have been a hassle to get them anywhere else.

honestly who here doesnt have steam already?

tutt3r

And to Chili: You don't have a Steam account yet? No orange box yet or anythin? You should make it like your main game account in priority above GFWL etc. A lot of games use it. The way they've managed friends and achievements is great and its very easy to use. Its just an account. It won't take long to make, its free etc. biggest_loser

I've now got 44 games on steam, which is the large majority of my PC gaming collection. So no, I won't have any issue buying Civ 5 because it uses Steam. I may or may not get it though depending on how much I like Civ IV (just bought the complete pack on Steam less than a minute ago). I love Alpha Centauri so if the Civ series is anything like that then I'll probably wind up getting addicted to Civ IV and buy Civ 5 on launch day.