Poll

How much time does Steam say you've played AI Wars?

0-5 hours (it's sitting in my to-play stack)
0 (0%)
5-25 hours (I've got my feet wet)
0 (0%)
25-125 hours (I like this game!)
10 (23.8%)
125-625 hours (I *really* like this game)
19 (45.2%)
625+ hours (I do 10/10s to relax after work)
2 (4.8%)
I'm too cool for Steam.
11 (26.2%)

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Author Topic: Poll of Shame  (Read 2550 times)

Offline Ranakastrasz

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Re: Poll of Shame
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2011, 10:21:31 am »
I'm too cool for steam. I bought AI wars though steam, just because I wanted to be able to chat with my friends, and you need to buy something there, and fully intended to install though Steam, but I got a ton of localization issues. (namely every single bit of text in the game was replaced with the dereferenced variable names) As a result, I redownloaded the stand-alone game, and inserted the steam activation code manually.

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Re: Poll of Shame
« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2011, 10:22:58 am »
I'm too cool for steam. I bought AI wars though steam, just because I wanted to be able to chat with my friends, and you need to buy something there, and fully intended to install though Steam, but I got a ton of localization issues. (namely every single bit of text in the game was replaced with the dereferenced variable names) As a result, I redownloaded the stand-alone game, and inserted the steam activation code manually.

It sounds like Steam just didn't download all the files properly.  Happens sometimes -- rarely, but it happens.  Doing a verify on the cache fixes it every time.
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Re: Poll of Shame
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2011, 10:54:34 am »
I'm too cool for steam. I bought AI wars though steam, just because I wanted to be able to chat with my friends, and you need to buy something there, and fully intended to install though Steam, but I got a ton of localization issues. (namely every single bit of text in the game was replaced with the dereferenced variable names) As a result, I redownloaded the stand-alone game, and inserted the steam activation code manually.

It sounds like Steam just didn't download all the files properly.  Happens sometimes -- rarely, but it happens.  Doing a verify on the cache fixes it every time.
Thanks, Although I still like playing it without having to get on steam first. XD

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Re: Poll of Shame
« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2011, 10:55:53 am »
Quite understandable.  To each their own!
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Re: Poll of Shame
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2011, 11:09:33 am »
I think about half my play time is on Steam, since the game was out so long before the Steam release, and I played a lot in Linux too, which runs better by itself than through Steam (Something with AI War and the Steam overlay did weird things in Wine).