How do you game on the m11x?

Was wondering how you guys game with your m11x's?

Steam/downloaded or external drive?

 

A fair mix of both for me.

 

Steam all the way.

 

A mix here, steam is useful in some ways. But I recently bought an external optical cheap as you can always pick up an interesting title second hand when out and about.

 

80% Steam
18% GFWL
2% disc games

And I got some games from games for windows live because sometimes they do a 10 cent games (Age of Empires III) or 1 dollar games (Viva Pinata Blacklight Tango)

And the disc games are games that I already had before I got my m11x, like Halo CE and some old RTS

Steam is my main source....

 

I prefer to use Steam games when I'm on the m11x, although I do have an external drive for when I want to use a disc. Used it a fair bit when I originally got the machine, but now I purchase more on Steam just so it's convenient to play on the m11x.

 

steam 95%

5% phyisical disc

 

Steam, GOG and Impulse make up 100% of my gaming. If it needs an external drive (which I have - vital for re-installs of O/S's) then I won't play it.

 

If it's not on Steam, Amazon digital (my new thing), or GOG I don't want it. Even on my gaming desktop which has a drive. I don't want discs or boxes anymore.

 

steam all the way..
and my GF plays facebook games such as: farmville, restaurant city, treasure island. all those retarded games...

 

I just can't bring myself to do Steam. I hate that someone else has the say over when I get to play. I line my hats with tinfoil.

 

If it needs a disc then I probably don't use it.... steam all the way and mainly MMOs. I currently Dabble with STO, Rift, and DCUO.

 

I own around 20 games on steam and 5 games from CD.

I just use a another laptop/computer with a CD drive, and just install it on that, transfer it over to M11X then edit the registry.

Steam is the way forward for PC games- not to mention the amount of sales they do.

 

Huh?

You can run Steam offline without ever connecting to the network.

PS. Bear in mind that most games today also 'phone home', so regardless of whether it came off a dvd or you downloaded it through Steam, someone somewhere knows that you played it. Analytics are a crucial part of the games industry today (knowing what's being played, how much, and who with)

 

Pants off....wait, what?

 

I can understand where you are coming from, I feel the same way about Apple and anything that starts with an "i". But Steam truly is an awesome game service if you travel and or spend lots of time abroad. Not to mention, you can "back up" games to a hdd so you do not have re-download them again. Also as previously mentioned, Steam can run in an offline mode and any installed games are playable.

 

Steam for sure (or just Digital Download if it's a better deal on Amazon). For games I already owned on Disc, I just Image them on my desktop and run them with a virtual drive on the M11x.

Edit: And for those who don't know what Ashveratu means when he says "back up" games. Steam runs independently from the OS. Meaning if you ever need to re-format, you can grab an external drive, drag and drop the entire steam folder onto it. Re-Format, then grab that steam folder and drag and drop it back onto the freshly re-formated computer and steam and all games will run, no problem. No re-install, no re-download, nothing. All new Blizzard games work the same way. So if you're like me and have about a million addons for WoW, re-formating and re-installing can be a major head ache, unless you just grab that whole folder and save it somewhere then put it back afterwards. All add-on settings and WoW settings remain in tact.

 

Actually, If you go to your library of games in Steam, right click on the name of an installed game, you should see "back up game files" as an option. It will then give you some choices, where to back the game up to and what sizes (cd rom, dvd rom) to make file folders. Of course what you stated works very well too.