Unless your're looking at those crazy expensive 5000$ minimum boutique PC's, then an OEM gaming PC is stupid to say the least since you get the same part part, cooling, wiring and clock then a DIY pc.

Your better off buying parts apart.

things you should already have,

-Hard Drives, though new ones don't hurt

-DVD/CD

-Any expansion card, Sound, Ethernet, WiFi

-Keyboard/Mouse/Screen/Speakers

-OS

-Case, if it's any good, buying a new one is a good idea if you upgrade from a cheap OEM machine

All of these figures in a OEM PC, so buying part yourself gives you a nice cushion

 Things worth upgrading

- Motherboard/RAM/CPU

- Videocard

you can download the lineage2 client of lineage site for free

 that's how i got it

the thing with steam is that it's painless, you don't worry about anything. you download a game and bam, it's installed and everything automatically.

 Compared to some game bundle like C&C the first decade steam is lightyears ahead

I was happy to hear that the developers are really trying to optimize this game well so some of you may not have to worry about upgrading your rigs...depending on how old they are. Herrick

Linux is cool, but very few games can run on it and it lacks directx which is msoft only. If you like Prey, Quake 4, and Doom 3, which are opengl, you'll be ok. Just make sure ur gfx card has available linux driversimrlybord7

There's always unofficial & unsupported servers that are free, but have less stuff and lack real support

but hey at least it's free and you can play