Sheepeh wrote:
This is why Steam is ace. No worries about being massively out of date. With most games even if you install from scratch the patch is simply slipstreamed in.
Not to mention the excellence of having a virtual library of games, which you can take anywhere around the world with you, even if you enter the plane with only your clothes and pasport on you.
It's usually at this point that someone says something about 'What happens when the servers are turned off and you can't access them anymore?', which is as brilliant as argument as 'What happens when the grid is turned off?', to someone who has just replaced their candle-lit house with all new electrical wiring.
Plus, you can now gift people stuff over Steam. Surprising a gloomy loved one with a sudden rush of delightful Commander Keen nostalgia, theirs to keep, for only a couple of quid, with no tedious eBay twattery or waiting around? Excellence.