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Okay, well like many people on this forum, I downloaded Steam and picked up Portal. I've been checking out Steam and decided I want to buy their "Steam Play Indie Pack" for the great deal. However, I am a bit hesitant because I think I might be better off buying these games from their websites and not off Steam.
Questions:
I've heard that there's no way to open a game bought off steam without opening Steam first. Is that true even with games like "World of Goo" that can be purchased elsewhere? Can I get a confirmation on that?
I keep a folder with aliases of all my games. I want to be able to include Steam games. I found out making an alias of Portal in my (User/Applications) folder works, and when clicked it will open Steam which begins to start up Portal. Will this work with every game I get?
-By the way, I've never noticed an Applications folder in my User folder before and Portal's the only game in it. Did Steam make that folder?
Is there any downside to having Steam run in the background? Portal runs perfectly smooth, but might other games lag because of that?
Will I be able to play games offline? I tried turning off Wi-Fi and opening Steam. It was able to log into my account and I could still access my Library. When opening Portal a message came up saying it won't be able to access the internet, but once I clicked OK, the game started and had all of my saved data. What worries me is that when I go on forums I see people saying they can't play their Steam games offline or they're having problems. Mine seemed to run fine, is there anything I'm missing?
Thanks in advance for anybody that took the time to read some of this. I'd appreciate any response.
Edit: I forgot one little thing. I'm in Europe at the moment and the prices show up in Euros. Is there any way I can change it to USD?
Questions:
I've heard that there's no way to open a game bought off steam without opening Steam first. Is that true even with games like "World of Goo" that can be purchased elsewhere? Can I get a confirmation on that?
I keep a folder with aliases of all my games. I want to be able to include Steam games. I found out making an alias of Portal in my (User/Applications) folder works, and when clicked it will open Steam which begins to start up Portal. Will this work with every game I get?
-By the way, I've never noticed an Applications folder in my User folder before and Portal's the only game in it. Did Steam make that folder?
Is there any downside to having Steam run in the background? Portal runs perfectly smooth, but might other games lag because of that?
Will I be able to play games offline? I tried turning off Wi-Fi and opening Steam. It was able to log into my account and I could still access my Library. When opening Portal a message came up saying it won't be able to access the internet, but once I clicked OK, the game started and had all of my saved data. What worries me is that when I go on forums I see people saying they can't play their Steam games offline or they're having problems. Mine seemed to run fine, is there anything I'm missing?
Thanks in advance for anybody that took the time to read some of this. I'd appreciate any response.
Edit: I forgot one little thing. I'm in Europe at the moment and the prices show up in Euros. Is there any way I can change it to USD?