STEAM better than leaving cd in drive

Like alot of folks i got error "cant connect" when the steam servers struggled to cope, but once i got installed and playing the game i'm finding the whole FM09 experience good.

A biggie for me which sounds silly is not having to have the cd in the drive all the time. i put alot of nocturnal hours into FM09 as its a great stress lifter and have the. Cd and box packed away. Game loads quickly and flawlessly with out having to wait for the small whirring of your optical drive. I know the Security stuff has p issed everyone off but its a one off hurdle i suppose that when you go through the routine of activiating it,you wont do it again.

Fanboy signing off

anyone else finding not having the CD in the drive refreshing

It would be good if I could play it on my Mac without the CD in as I play it on my Macbook which is usually on my lap, if I move much then the slot loading CD drive is known for chewing through my discs.

Although once the game has loaded and I am in-game I can actually take the disc out so I guess it's not too irritating

the really good thing about steam is that all your update,s will be automatically if you want to, i use steam for most of my

games never had any problem in quite happy fm2009 is part of it now.

As a long time Steam user I was happy to hear about SI going with Valve's option and the actual implementation hasn't change my mind on that. Anybody complaining should have a read about the hoops purchasers of some of the recent Electronic Arts games (Spore for one) have had to jump through....

Personally I avoided Steam because it dictates the install location of the actual game and forces it into program files on the O/S partition.

That said, Uniloc option was seamless, the patch was easily installed, and I don't have a dependency on a third party to start the game.

I'm glad I can leave my disk in the box now and not batter it to hell swapping between laptop and desktop.