Is there a difference between buying an actual copy of a game from a store and buying from STEAM?
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Difference?
Is there a difference between buying an actual copy of a game from a store and buying from STEAM?
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with steam you just buy the game and download/install it
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you have it permanetly on your steam account.
You can re-dl it on any computer.
However, buying it from a store makes you have the actual CD.
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But once you activate the game within Steam, you can grab the files from Steam instead if you ever lose your disk.Originally Posted by Gaika
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AKA - if you have a shit connection buy the disc <3
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A lot of games can't be activated over Steam though. For instance, my copy of CoD4 can't be activated through Steam since I bought it at EBGames.
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Buying from Steam is a lot easier. But I think the real question here is "Is there a difference between Deimos and the perfect love?" The answer is no.
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It's usually not possible to use mods on Steam as far as I know
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Oh, I meant Valve games of course!
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Yes. Yes there is.
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Ahh, I thought we were talking about any game available over Steam, my bad.
Anyways, that's the reason I prefer Steam, it's all digital and it stays with your account forever. Just easier since I have too many boxes and cases anyways, but if you do buy it from the store you can use Steam in-game anyways, so the only real difference is whether you want purely digital or a hard copy.
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oh god you signatureDDD
that the only thing i can think of that's different
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