Not talking about pirated games but a place to download full games by paying for them. Sumthing reliable like a steam store sort of thing.
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Steam is pretty much the only service of it's kind. You're not going to get them free anywhere without participating in something illegal.
-Betta
Thats deffinetly not true.Steam is pretty much the only service of it's kind. You're not going to get them free anywhere without participating in something illegal.
-Betta
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The other big service is direct2drive...which is worse than Steam, but has a big advantage in that it has EA support, which is the biggest EA publisher by far.
I've downloaded the following games off Direct2Drive and have been happy every time:
King's Bounty
Warhammer Online
Titan Quest
and a couple puzzle games
I've also downloaded a couple off Steam:
Some random HL2 episode
Portal stand alone
Darwinia
I've also used Impulse form Stardock, the makers of Galactic Civilizations to downloaded these:
GalCiv II + Expansions
Sins of a Solar Empire DEMo
I am least impressed with Stardocks download manager because it seems so slow to load and always requires a time consuming update every time I start it. Plus the selection on Impulse is very poor and the prices for the few things I *am* interest in are higher than Steam on the rare occasions I've seen the same game at both places.
So far Direct 2 Drive is best for me because I don't have to download and update some download manager that always tries to stay memory resident every time I update it like Steam. Plus Direct 2 Drive has the best selection by far for the stuff I've been looking for.
Yeah, GOG.com is great for those older games.
I wish there was a wider selection of games to buy, because the service is really easy to use. Recently repurchased Gothic because I lost my original, and then Shogo Mobile Armour Division (which has an issue on my PC - mouse jerks all over the place :/ ) and finally Stonekeep, which I missed the first time around. I plan on buying Kingpin: Life Of Crime next, which I also missed for some reason.
Steam would be my next recommendation, for current games.
Stardock is also developing Impulse.RK-Mara
stardock has been active in DD the last 5 years through stardock store and impulse looks very interesting
besides stardock's games there are a lot of THQ atari and ubisoft games in stardock store LINK
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