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Hi, I'm back after a long time and thinking of buying OS.

The question I have is do you have to play the game on Steam?

Thanks,

L.

No. You can also get it from GOG.com or the Mac App Store (which only has the OSX version).

Once installed it verifies then you can play offline.

I also hate not getting a copy of the game on disk, this renting a game you bought crap, just sucks and punishes the customer, it will not prevent piracy but it sure makes it inconvenient to install and maintain and now I dont even want to buy a new computer, too much hassle.

Rant off

However D:OS is really a great game, and Steam is better than Blizzards absolutely abyssmal Battlenet.

I would however pay double for an actual disk with the game on it, it makes keeping it around for the future and playing it on more than one computer much more user friendly.

Frakking pirates and frakking companies.

Buy it online, download and then burn to a disc. Voilà, you have a physical copy. If you want a fancy label, use a Lightscribe disc/burner or use a label printer. I've been gaming since the early 80's, and I still fail to see the magical appeal of a physical disc. They can rot, get scratched, be lost, etc. They're no more secure (against loss) than a digital copy.

In this case the choice of Steam for the retail version was to enable a day one update, since the game was being worked on up to (and past) the release date. It also makes patching much easier, and that is where the majority of demand was, anyway.

Jito: thanks but not the perfect solution your thinking it is...
the reason you fail to see the appeal of a physical copy is, your circumstances are different, you are not in my shoes. I do not like the hassle of all that firstly when playing becomes work I stop and do something I enjoy, I live in the mountains where internet service is poor to characterize it nicley, my discs ( the best games when not in use- about 7 of them total) are kept in a gun safe so they will probably last longer than I will, so in fact yes they are far more secure. I also do not like having my gaming PC on the internet at all and until recently there was no reason to ever do so.

I play games on my PC at home in the mountains, on my PC in town at the GF's and sometimes at work, Baldurs Gate's and Fallout's are portable compared to this new DRM BS. I paid for the game- I want to own it, I dont want hassles or endless hoops to jump through. Also like I really want one more account anywhere for anything.

Raze I bought a copy from a retailer in UK (mail order $65 plus shipping which I was willing to pay because it was touted as being an actual physical copy), then still had to download it for 7 hours, and this was in November not day one, so I appreciate the why but the how and the what is more important to me. Price was not the object either ( I never said I would not pay extra for what I want nor did I put a price tag on what I was willing to pay to get it), time, ease, portability and reliability are the issue, not money...while I am not wealthy I will spend the money i do have, on the things I want.

Don't forget the physical game manual - always easier to read than a PDF in my view. And the extra physical goodies like the map (well OK, the D:OS cloth map is pretty disappointing), cards, stickers and poster.
I'd disagree, in that access to a digital copy can be lost through no fault of your own (the service closing down, your account being disabled, etc).

Discs, as long as they are cared for (which means using them as little as possible, which in turn means patching the game to disable any media checks) should last for a few decades at least (I have music CDs from 30 years ago that still play perfectly).

Burning a GOG version to disc does come quite close to a physical version, but it's a pity Larian haven't offered a physical version of D:OS to anyone beyond their Kickstarter backers.