GameStop Won't Distribute Dawn Of War 2 Because Of Steam

Steam causes no issues at all for me.
As was stated before, unless your PC is a giant pile of poo, then it causes no slow downs. I'm on a laptop and it doens't even affect me.
And yeah, offline mode is fine with everything.
Peopel against DRM, how about not pirating stuff and making it worse? Your just punishing the honest people who aren't thieving skulking complaining ratbags.

hahahaha this is epic, fu(k steam and G4ystomp

Cool. I support GameStop all the way. Steam is pure crap and has caused me nothing but problems. It's the reason I quit the Half-Life series

Well said

steam is great and i hope gamestop pulls a john ritter

Steam is the best idea for PC Gaming ever. It slows down piracy and makes it to where you dont have to keep the friggin discs just to play a game.

LOL @ the first retards posting...

lol, slow us ppl down plz, makes it so much easier to get now that I dont have to wait for someone to buy it at a store to nab it i can just use ur account thx ^_^

Ok first, stop with that bulls**t, steam has noting unique and revolutionnary. There is other digital distribution medium, EA and Direct2Dive, second, it does'nt stop piracy, left4dead steamless was on p2p the day it came out. Third, paying the same price than the boxed product for a digital content is ridiculous.

Fourth, having to run install and run steam for a boxed game is even more ridiculous, And no, it does'nt slow down or stop piracy. It maybe slowed down the first game to have this kind if 'protection' but now that the crackers have the know-how, pirates gets a clean game while legits get a s**tty program running in the background for nothing.

Having worked at EB during the GameStop merge (before i quit/was forced out). This follows gamestops mentality, f**k the consumer, f**k the developers, piracy? technically gamestop and these 'pawn' places are just a legal place to sell and buy someone else's 'used' Intellectual Property. gamestop is booming on this, and the industry is losing money at the same rate as piracy

can you elaborate equalizer? your post doesnt make much sense.

f**k this s**t steam?? Bah down with DRM!!Another good title lost.

Steam is great for a lot of reasons and the benefits it offers are more than enough to justify pricing on par with shrink wrapped software (which you will soon loose and be f**ked)

fuk megagames...wtf is unable to verify captcha

thats just fcken great.

or get it from TPB without steam, cd checks or any kind of BS

Anon @ 19:44AgreedAnon @ 16:16"steam has noting unique and revolutionnary. "Revolutionary? No. Unique? Yes, is there any other online gaming platform that does everything steam does? No, so it's unique ;)

What does it do besides being bloated ugly and stupid? It delivers online content, well Direct2Drive does to, and does'nt force me to run a bloated gay software in the background each time I wanna run the game I bought. So it's uniqueness is pure s**t. Go on, keep arguing...f**king steam fanboys...

Anon @ 19:44. No f**king benifits. Most of todays ISP impose download cap, so it cost me more to buy 'air' content. Where's the f**king benifits? Faster delivery? Don't have to go out to buy it? Well I just have to order the boxed game from a store, and While I wait download a pirated copy over p2p? Cost me the same for a product I can touch...The brand new DVD can even stay in it's boxe so I dont scratch or loose it, I just use the backup copy, and the legit CD-Key.

Benefits:No disk, ingame IM, ingame browser, Automatic updates/patches, no DRM or copy protection to infect your pc.Got a low download cap with your ISP? Wise up and switch to a proper ISP, the 90's are long gone :)

steam is the ticketmaster of pc games

anon@16:23 ignorance is a bliss but stupidity should be a crime. steam IS DRM... f**ktart... as well not everone (even people in the US) can get high speed with out caps or have high enough speed that, they can download the game in the time it would take to go to the store and buy the game....also maybe somepeople you like like having the manual... and being able to sell/trade/give away the game when they don't want it... instead of realising that once they are done with it there f**ked becuse its worthless

so, Gamestop can carry Half-Life and Sin, which requires a Steam install, but they can't carry this? I mean, Steam isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I don't mind when the patches to all my games can be delivered and installed with our me haveing to worry with it. And all the people here who is hating on Steam is just made cause it makes it harder to copy that game.

anon@16:23 Install xFire and get in-game messaging for every games. Broadband in the 90s was actually better than it is now, not speed wise but cap wise. Download caps are an emerging phenomenon that came with the rise in p2p piracy. I live in Canada, not in third world, and all major ISPs now have caps and packetshaping.

Anyone with a PC thats not a load of s**t shouldnt have any problem running steam in the background so everyone whos saying its bloated is exaggerating a bit

anon@18:12 That's not the point. The point is, as someone else stated, that Steam is DRM and the only fact you don't have the choice to run it if you want or not, sucks. It was first intended for Valve's games and now spreads like a disease. If only it really slowed piracy, but it does'nt at all. So the pirate actually gets a clean version of the game, while the legit user is forced to login and run that piece of crap each time he wanna play a game. I heard DoW 2 had Live too, which is another piece of crap.

Im sorry that you are paying to get on AOL with your 56K modems. Im sorry you can't afford to reward a good developer by buying one of their games. But i am most sorry for the fact that you guys are here b***hing about how lame Steams DRM is(for valves titles, its unlimited downloads, to any PC...forever), when you should be enjoying one of their great polished shooters or someone elses game, whatever you choose. If the scary future of DRM is valve distributing unlimited downloads (and from Valve it IS unlimited) of software you have purchased to any PC you want WTF are you b***hing about? STFU. If you like games, please stop s**tting where you eat.

anon@21:6 unlimited downloads big deal, direct2drive does that exact same thing! with no drm or cd or anything like that needed at all! wow! besides the point. if its a game I really want, I'd rather have a physical copy that I can hold, look at and display, not simply an icon on my desktop, and a record in a big corporate database

So it begins...

Gamestop's loss tbh, as long as they get the sale of the retail box why should they care?

TyranT: So it beginsyou're right... that the start of things to go bad. lets wait until there's a big hit on the steam dbimho people r already looking for it :P

go stop a dildo up your ass gamestop, nobody cares and you're pathetic for thinking you're important in any way.

But, do they have BattleToads???

the point is clear, I get a pirated game and it is nag free, whereas the times when I go legit I deserve to be punished.kind of makes you think about the direction the software/game industry is taking.

Steam is DRM? You should USE IT before making such claims folks. It has its own offline mode so you don't have to login to play. Reselling your old games? Geez get a job and you won't have to. People who like manuals, I mean, seriously...?

You like the disk? Get a lightscribe burner and burn it. You can make a unique disk which works much better to show off than a standard disk.

one way or the other..their games gonna get piratedno matter whatyou all know it

@Mr. 16:23But you need to login. And no matter what, you can lose all your games.I lost an account because I tried to get HL2 before it was in my country(I had to wait 2 weeks, wtf) by exploiting a bug. I had already payed it!But anyway, They cancelled an account with 100€ in games. All of valve games to date.That can't happen with real games.Fuc­k steam, I love it to play CSS and DODS, but I don't want it to be the standard. Retail games without DRM is the way to go.I will pirate DoW2, of course. I will have it before it's in the shelves in my country, and in the language I want: English.

i have steam for 3 years and i have no problems with steam. Something that you did that you are not telling caused it to disable on you.

Bye gamestop you surely won't be missed *waves bye* :)

funny how just today I HAD to login to steam to be able to play a *single player* game, wtf don't ask me because it worked a few times without having to log on to steam;

some games you can bypass steam by just right click and create a direct shortcut to the desktop of the game that are NON STEAM NATIVE GAMES. As far logging in goes. You have to set it to offline mode by clicking "start in offline mode"

Anon at 11:53 Funny how your a f**king moron and SHOULD just shut the f**k up next time.

And your statement helps contribute to this story how? Calling people morons does nothing but make people think that you're just trying to boost your ego while hiding behind your monitor without fear of getting punched in the face.Give it a while, perhaps in a few years you just might mature.

He is the first trying to be an ass by being sarcastic. And I don't fear to be punched in the face, I usally say what I think, and I think little sarcastic smartasses piss me off.

If they piss you off that bad, then just ignore them, be the better woman.

"little sarcastic smartasses"As opposed to the big ones? Or are you calling them little to make your self feel bigger?

Countdown to this backfiring on GameStop.