Sid Meier’s Civilization V Game of the Year Edition

Steam

By massllim posted 24th May 2012

What is this steam thing you have to use to play Civ 5 and is there any way of getting around it?

By IncognitoMosquito posted 24th May 2012

http://store.steampowered.com/about/

It's a digital gaming platform. And no, there is no possible way to get around it. The steamworks framework was used in the game, which means that no matter where you buy it, you must launch it through Steam.

By Sysgen posted 24th May 2012

I'm sure it was an oversight but telling people how to circumvent drm on a site which relies on publisher agreements isn't advised.

By rcantora posted 24th May 2012

Indeed. The reply in question has been removed.

By zeebzo posted 24th May 2012

What's the problem with steam?

By StaxxoBeat posted 25th May 2012

Exactly whats the problem with Steam? Is it because the drm?

By General_bolivar posted 25th May 2012

If anything steam will automatically update your game and you can even use it in offline mode...

By Badeace posted 27th May 2012

Steam was selected by Sid Meier's to be DRM for the game. There no way of getting around it unless the game developer allows it. This is happening to a lot of games because developers want to prevent people from pirating the game.

By Jimmy Bowman posted 27th May 2012

steam is nessicary to run the game. It also allows the game to automatically update and helps to fix gliches.

By Hauzer posted 28th May 2012

Steam is great. It's a convenient program to keep/download/auto-update all your games, and many games from here can be added to your Steam account, such as this one.