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[ggrobot]

Valve sent us a press release announcing that

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be available for digital download worldwide exclusively on Steam, a leading online platform for the distribution and management of PC games. The official prequel to the Survival FPS game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is

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[darknothing]

guys just wait for the DVD version... steam has many unique problems with games and stalker will suffer because of it. steam has a tendency of using more Memory then it needs too also which causes loss of FPS... and stalker needs all the memory it can get by itself..

the game should be fun, and i hope they learned from here mistakes.

[Koogle]

steam is a pile of shit...

I've started boycotting it from now on.. its slow to start up and get running, you get issues connecting that can all add to the slowness.. then when it finally does start up you got all the crap and bloat it that comes with that(advert spam).. next up, the only way you can get updates for any of the games is through the stinking platform.. at least other games allow for mirrors updates to be put up on the web.. so you don't end up with shitty 20kb download speeds just to get some stupid little 5mb update that adds jackshit to the game(ie most updates like css,tf2 etc) ... and once you gone through all that crap you still gotta then start the game you want.. while steaming shit running in the background.

I can't even imagine the headaches of running a game that wasn't built for steam, heck evening modding and customizing third party games must be a bloody fucking joke.