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Unrealmaster287

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Hey,
I have been a fan of the Unreal series ever since the unreal gold came out, I currently own unreal gold, unreal tournament 3 (retail and i redeemed on steam) and unreal tournament GOTY, I have also played UT2004 a lot on my friend’s laptop: P

Now here is my dilemma, I am wondering whether to by UT duel pack on steam or the unreal anthology retail. Since I already own 3 games I only want unreal 2 and UT2004, the anthology version is cheaper (19.99 on amazon) and comes with the soundtrack.

But the Steam version guarantees that I will never lose/destroy the disk (My UT3 collectors eddition disk is almost distroyed :p) and has the steam friends integration. But on the otherhand what happens to me if steam dies with the new XBLA windows 8 integration :eek: will i be able to install it outside steam :(

PS: I am also a loyal steam customer

Also does the UT2004 editor’s choice edition on steam contain the editor choice content and the tutorials or is it basically the normal one. Same question for unreal gold and UT GOTY

Finally are there any problems with the steam versions, i.e. will all mods work on them/ will they be fully patched, I asked this because I heard some people have problems with umods on steam version

Anyother reasons to go for one over the other will be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance
 
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Unrealmaster287

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The retail version is cheaper and comes with the soundtrack, it's a no brainer.

Learn to look after your game disks :p

true

I did learn how look after my discs but it was too late :(

But isnt steam more convinient in terms of getting me the latest patches
 

Capt.Toilet

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Get the retail disk and make a back-up. Can you imagine how mad people are going to be when Steam goes out of business someday? LOL

Ugh why do people always refer to steam as a business? It isn't a damn business, it is software. Valve is the business, not steam. I do not apply for a job at steam, I apply for a job at Valve. If steam fails, Valve is the one that will suffer huge losses.
 

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Get the retail disk and make a back-up. Can you imagine how mad people are going to be when Steam goes out of business someday? LOL

What Toilet said, and:

Valve is one of the very few game developers who has some semblance of sanity. So if they go out of business, I'm sure they will try to go out of their way to provide customers a way to play the games in a permanent offline mode.

Now, I can't say the same for Microsoft's GFWL and EA's Origin...
 

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I don't use Steam so I am ignorant about it and its developer. Sorry for that. My answer stays the same though. Get the retail disk in my opinion.
 

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I don't use Steam so I am ignorant about it and its developer. Sorry for that. My answer stays the same though. Get the retail disk in my opinion.
I'm very curious as to why you don't use it. I have a general idea as to why you might not use it but those are very old and outdated reasons.
 

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Hi JD641. I have logged in and checked it out before. I even did that recently. I don't use it because I already own all of the UT stuff I want and it is all I play or admin so there was no need for me to ever use Steam. That's the best answer I have. I hear that some of the things from Steam are actually different and sometimes cause issues with playing with people who bought the actual cd of the game. Just little things like that keep me away from it. I have nothing against Steam as a whole. If I changed games every once in a while I would see a greater need for a service such as Steam.
 

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Hi JD641. I have logged in and checked it out before. I even did that recently. I don't use it because I already own all of the UT stuff I want and it is all I play or admin so there was no need for me to ever use Steam. That's the best answer I have. I hear that some of the things from Steam are actually different and sometimes cause issues with playing with people who bought the actual cd of the game. Just little things like that keep me away from it. I have nothing against Steam as a whole. If I changed games every once in a while I would see a greater need for a service such as Steam.

So basically what you're saying is you're not a gamer and only an Unreal fan? Most of us probably got on steam through Half Life 2, you never played that?
 
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