Civilization V To Use Steamworks

sopssa writes "2K Games today announced that Civilization V will be using Steamworks for online matchmaking, automated updates, downloadable content and DRM for the game. Steam's Civ V store page is also available now, revealing some new information about the game. There will be an 'In-Game Community Hub' for online matchmaking, communication, and for sharing scenarios between players. While including Steamworks might put some people off, it might also indicate better online gameplay than in the previous Civilization games, where it was almost impossible to have a good game without playing with just friends."

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Re:Civ was my offline game

[smallfries]

You could not be more wrong and I would be impressed if you could point to a single person with that belief. Much more common is a generation of people who don't believe in following an arbitary set of rules to preserve artificial scarcity. There really is nothing morally wrong with copying, it is not stealing and our laws are simply wrong.

I choose to buy games simply because we don't have another renumeration method for game devs. If they are stupid enough to stick annoying DRM on there then I'll take the non-damaged version.