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Joseph DeGarmo

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I have abandoned my Steam account for the last several months due to the unacceptable reliability of the servers (daily downtimes since March) and horrid customer service. But I have several games which I want to play, but require Steam to run. Are the no-DVD (no-DRM) fixes in this website safe to use or are they prone to cause issues with Windows? Do they contain malware?

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I will not need this for Origin and uPlay since I have no issues with them.
 
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Hey,

if they are single player games you can still play them in Steam in offline mode as far as I remember. Also, I know you might have been annoyed with Steam before but a few months have gone by - give it another chance - still better than having to buy all the games again.

On a side note I dislike the idea of all Steam, Uplay, Origin etc. and I wish they never appeared but...
 
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Joseph DeGarmo

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OK, thanks. Sorry I did not realize that the website I posted is illegal. I'll try to work with Steam and play games without having to rely on the servers. If I need to, I can install Gamesave Manager and use that for cloud saves instead of Steam's cloud feature. But the issue is if I install Steam or try to sign in and it does not connect due to servers being down. But as long as I remain signed in and set up Steam to start on Windows boot, then I should be OK, even when it's offline. Correct? I'll very seldom use the client chat.
 
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Where do you live? I've never heard of Steam servers having prolonged availability issues. Their store site and community hub go down for a bit every once in a while but I've never seen the authentication and cloud storage servers go down.
 
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Joseph DeGarmo

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I'm from Texas, U.S. I started noticing Steam going offline frequently in March and noticed everyone else having the same issues worldwide. So apparently it has been an ongoing global issue. According to this, outages still occur frequently.

http://steamstat.us/

http://steamdb.info/app/753/graphs/
 
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Joseph DeGarmo

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It sucks that most PC games nowadays require Steam. 75% of the games I've been playing this year are EA games on Origin, 20% are uPlay games, and the rest of them are Elder Scrolls Online and a couple other DRM-free games. Origin has been by far the most reliable DRM for me and EA's customer service is world-class compared to Valve.:p
 
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Hawkeye22

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Official steam player stats are here:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

They used to have an official server status page too, although I can't find it at the minute. Other than regular scheduled mainteneance times, I rarely if ever have problems with steam.
 
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I have had more issues with U-Play than steam and origin combined, but even those issues were more to do with the game being in beta (The Crew). I have never had steam be unavailable for more than an hour either, or had connectivity issues over days. I did however have my credit card company decline my card for steam purchases, "It is not a well known company and could be fraud" the rep told me (in terrible English), then they suggested I make the purchase in person and not online. Didn't know how to respond to that, couldn't bring myself to lash out at the rep, almopst felt sorry for them.

NO-CD is a tricky subject, while they are technically not legal, they can be the only solution to a problem. Some older DRM can break your computer with virtual drives and whatnot. My recent need for one was the steam version of KotOR/KotOR2, they don't scale for widescreen properly, and the widescreen patcher requires changes to the .exe, that steam overwrites when launching, so have to use the nocd .exe to get that working. But there is no guarantee that the file will be clean, more to a "trust your source" thing there.
 
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Joseph DeGarmo

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OK. I figured that I cannot trust such crack files. Then I will eventually reinstall Steam, but with limited use. I will try out GameSave Manager for backing up my game saves for Steam games and also for keeping backups for other games. If the new Gauntlet game is worth purchasing, then I will buy it on Amazon, Origin, or uPlay, and activate the product key on Steam. I will never buy games from the Steam store. Gauntlet and RE4 HD Edition will be the only full games being played on Steam along with a couple of new DLCs for other games.
 
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