SE:V Manual Released

Elsemeravin · #1 October 10th, 2006, 02:59 AM

A newbie Steam question:

If I buy the game on Steam (which I will have to do as cannot be sent the boxed item it seems (or at least cannot wait for it... (to many '()'))), can I still play if I unregister from Steam ?

Devnullicus · #2 October 10th, 2006, 03:05 AM

Hmm the copy I got seems to be garbled. I've tried re-downloading and I still get a garbled pdf. Strange.

Pocus · #3 October 10th, 2006, 04:34 PM

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Devnullicus said:
Hmm the copy I got seems to be garbled. I've tried re-downloading and I still get a garbled pdf. Strange.

work ok for me

Fyron · #4 October 10th, 2006, 03:06 AM

No, you have to maintain a steam account. You might be able to keep playing the game, but you will definitely be unable to reinstall or patch it in the future without an active Steam account. Note that there are other downloadable versions of the game that do not use Steam, such as the one offered directly by S1st. The SE4 downloadables tended to be flakier than the Steam version though.

Elsemeravin · #5 October 10th, 2006, 03:27 AM

Erf.

In case I would have a friend in NY, and in case that friend could be made visiting me after the 16th, and in case I would like to ask that friend to bring me a gift, in which shop should I advise him to go to get a boxed SE5 ?

Atrocities · #6 October 10th, 2006, 04:42 PM

I hate electronic manuals. Give me a paper manual and I will play the game.

Randallw · #7 October 10th, 2006, 05:15 PM

You do get a smaller paper manual with the boxed game, but the PDF is much bigger and contains colour pictures of practically everything. It would be uneconomical to include that as a hard copy.

Elsemeravin · #8 October 10th, 2006, 07:06 PM

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Atrocities said:
I hate electronic manuals. Give me a paper manual and I will play the game.

You can push the "print" button and it will magically become paper manual without costing a penny to MM

Atrocities · #9 October 10th, 2006, 07:17 PM

Ok let me put it too you this way. I used to pay $40.00 to $50.00 for a game that actually came with a manual. It didn't cost me any thing extra.

Today I still pay between $40.00 and $50.00 dollars for a game but no manual. So now not only do I have to pay full price for the game, I have to pay even more for the paper and the ink to print the game manual???? In todays age publishing a manual is no where near as expensive as it was five or even two years ago. Hell with all the new Xerox and LeXmark copier and printer technology they could mass produce manuals all day and still cost only penies. Whereas the cartrages of ink for my HP printer costs $50.00 dollars each and last only about 250 pages.

No Thanks. That is just greed on the game publishers end pure and simple.

Even more evidence of greed. We used to get nice solid jewel cases for the game disks. Now all we get are paper disk covers. Hum... how much do jewel cases cost? While we pay about $20.00 for 100 of them, they the game publishers pay about $0.6 cents for them.

(Small game publishers like Shrapnel are exempt from this. heir profit margins are so small that these costs do end up saving money and are perfectly valid cost control measures. But larger publishers who sell tens of thousands of games can aford the extra $2.06 that it would cost to include a manual along with a protective jewel case for the game.)

Caduceus · #10 October 10th, 2006, 10:00 PM

Thanks for the post, Jarena.