Fortunately for me I had only downloaded around 400mb of it when I found out you could stop that and install it through the disk. OK So I go out and buy it, then go home and install steam and whatever, then create an account (BTW – I still need to input the activation code which is in the box) Even though I have bought the disk it still tries to download the whole game! Over 2GB of it!! There is nothing which pops up which says “you have the game on the disk, you can follow these instructions to stop the download since you dont need to do it”.
You can play it offline, however you must get the permission from steam to do that, physically using steam to select “play offline”, it’s like asking your mam if you can go out and play football which is fine if you are 7 years old, but at 27 it’s not 😉 Which means you cannot use it on 2 machines at the same time, you cannot let a mate borrow it, and you cannot sell it as second hand. Your game is assigned to your steam account. No longer happy! 🙁 Downloading games, yeah, “It’s the future” nooooooottt! Got the game, was a (reasonably) happy customer, tried to play it and….This happened. Why do we need to install steam, create an account with steam (yet more accounts we need to set up online), and “ask” steam if we are ok to play the game? You cannot uninstall steam once it is activated, you must have it running on your computer in order to play the game. There is also the argument that what if people don’t have the Internet, and so on, I could go on and on… I don’t have anything bad to say about Steam (yet), other than I don’t want it, I won’t use it (for anything other than FM) and it should not be required to play a game I have just went out and spent my hard earned money on. So Sports Interactive/SEGA are forcing us to install 3rd party software to play their game. That means if you are not a big gamer, you don’t buy games online or very often then you may not have even heard of Steam, let alone have it installed. It has all started since SEGA/SI Announced that the game MUST be installed with Steam What is Steam? It is basically a place to legally pay, download and play games, similar to iTunes. The whole gaming experience has been spoiled by Sports Interactive, Steam and SEGA The three of them combined to bring us, the consumer, the ones who pay for the game, the worst experience possible. So today is the day that Football Manager 2012 was released, and what a shambles it has become.
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