Pre-ordering open on Steam and SFI
 

See subject. Steam gets you a discount, SFI gets you free Starfury.

The EB games collection is a single-disk set with SE5 and SE4 deluxe. The CD is also somewhat unreliable- no idea if the other CD sets will be the same way..

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What happens if Valve fold?

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You wouldn't be able to reinstall, unless they released a fix-patch beforehand.

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Do you have a URL for SFI ?
(www.SFI.com is not it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif)

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Oh my....

Thanks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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CD is unreliable???

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Yes. I couldn't install from mine, for example.

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So where would you recommend me to buy SE V??

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I had a problem installing setup.exe from CD. The work-around was to copy setup onto C:, then running from there.

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The Steam question is a legitimate one in light of the folding of Triton who were doing the online distribution for Prey but I would expect Valve to release a patch to remove the online authentication. Maybe "expect" isn't the right word, maybe "hope" is.

I've pre-ordered on Steam.

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I purchased from EBgames and the game installed fine from the disk. Sounds like a QC issue.

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Do not get it over Steam if you have a choice, I have defeded Steam as a method of distributing games before but I do not believe getting Space Empires V over Steam is the best way to go. It is just not the right kind of game for that style of distribution.

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Any Europeans ordered/already recieved The Game yet?
Which company did you use?