Steam purchase

[markaedw]

Is there any difference in playabity and modabilty beteween buying on stem vs a pysical copy?

 

thanks 

mark

[myuhinny]

Well with steam as long as you don't delete your steam stuff you will always have it where as with a disk there is the chance of it getting scratched broken lost/misplaced or other things that can happen to a disk.

[Ark of Truth]

In terms of modding there is no difference.

[Guest Spikes]

My oblivion physical copy seems to handle mods better  than my Steam copy, at least in my pc. Steam works fine,but imo if you find a physical copy with expansions, grab that one(and make a copy of it, for bacckup)

[markaedw]

My oblivion physical copy seems to handle mods better  than my Steam copy, at least in my pc. Steam works fine,but imo if you find a physical copy with expansions, grab that one(and make a copy of it, for bacckup)

thaks I will

[gregathit]

Zero difference.

[Sailing Rebel]

The physical copy comes with a free coaster.

[jordisslave]

Wow.......

 

Games on disks.

 

I remember that.  Is that still a thing?  Do people still bother?  There's surely a nostalgia stand-up routine in that for someone.

 

Huh, most recent game I have on disk is Skyrim, as it happens, and it installs faster from Steam than from the DVD.

 

[jordisslave]

Sorry, that wasn't helpful.

 

I have Morrowind on Steam and Oblivion disk copy.  I had no problem modding either of these or getting them to talk to one-another to play Morroblivion.

[afz53fu]

Skyrim and Borderlands: Presequel made me download through steam even though I had the discs.  The only problems I have had modding Skyrim have been my own stupidity.  Battlefield 3 made me download through Origin.

[aabirin]

CDs are great for having a collection...I dunno, just seems a bit more...personal. I still have a lot of CDs from way back in early 2000~ and I still feel so good just looking at good ol' shogun total war, or half life 2. Steam just seems impersonal as a collection. Other than that little detail, steam obviously has the upper hand since it has the updates, you can play pretty much your entire library on the move, and a whole lot of other stuff.