Upthorn

If I were to overanalyze Josh's use of the phrase "good morning, America" I would imagine it came from an inability to intuitively comprehend the massive scope of his audience--not forgetting that there is a whole works outside the USA, but momentarily failing to realize that anyone outside his country should have any reason to listen to, out care about, what he was about to say.

I just wanted to stress this. When Paradox started to use Steam as the primary distributor, there was a lot of discussions about it and how it would work. Turned out they were right. You can use Steam exclusively as a distribution platform. It is possible to start the downloaded game by the exe file from the game directory without even launching Steam. Of course, Steam features won't work if Steam isn't running. So, most people were all right with the move to Steam in the end. But you can't install to a new computer without logging in and authorizing your account. That's DRM. Steam reserves the right to boot you from the service and/or remove the game from your account for whatever reason they come up with. After that, when you need a new computer, the no-drm steam won't be any better than regular drm-steam. Or do the let you download a standalone installer you don't need steam for? In that case I'm mistaken. I use Steam and generally don't mind, but the "trust us, we're good about this" is still there. And not in a good way. Wouldn't have felt the need to point this out again, unless... What was being said is that you can copy the game's steam folder to a new location and it will run from the new location without any other installation required. So, no, you don't need to log into steam to run the game from a new computer, you just need to copy the folder.